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It is highly likely in the future that you will be converting a physical machine to a virtual machine in your environment and in most cases you will be assigning the same IP to that virtual machine that the physical machine had. However, when you try enter or modify the IP address for your VMware adapter …

vSphere Version 4 previously had an absurdly low limit for iSCSI and Fiber Channel datastores at 2 Terabytes –512KB.   Why do I say absurdly low?   2TB isn’t that much these days and that is especially true when running SQL, Oracle, and Exchange servers. Files servers are almost always beyond the 2TB limit. With …

Vmware High Availability (HA) is a great feature that allows a guest Virtual Machines in a Cluster to survive a host failure. Some quick background is that a Cluster is a group of hosts that work together harmoniously and operate as a single unit. A host is a physical machine running a Hypervisor such as …

For those of you who are leveraging VNX Unified File systems, were you aware that you have the ability to checkpoint your file systems? If you don’t know what checkpoints are, checkpoints are a point-in-time copy of your file system. The VNX gives you the ability to automate the checkpoint process. Checkpoints can run every hour, or any designated …

I always feel a sense of renewal with the turn of the calendar. Many people use this time to set new goals for the new year and take the opportunity to get re-grounded and move toward accomplishing their goals. Yet, as I reflect on the security landscape in 2011, aptly named “The Year of the Breach”; I thought it …