A few days ago, I spoke before a small group of people about what I’d been doing with the Orion SDK. I mentioned that I had created a Spider-Orion script that I use to navigate to every page in my install. When I mentioned this script several people asked where it was published. The short answer –…
Monitoring Exchange servers is important because email is important, but it’s hard to do that when there aren’t any performance counters to reference. Let’s fix that.
Does anyone remember the outcry 10 years ago when Amazon revolutionized the retail book market? I certainly do. I used to love going to the mall and hitting up both (yes there were two) book stores looking for something new to read. In fact, it was there that I first found the Wheel of Time…
A friend of mine at work this week mentioned that he had to give a talk about taking time away from work. In previous companies, we used to refer to this “maintaining a healthy work/life balance.” This is the way I see it: Downtime makes work and down time saves life.
Everyone in the #vDM30in30 challenge seems to be spouting off about their home labs. Before I moved to Austin, I had a home lab. It was a half-rack on the floor with 3 servers and two mass storage arrays coupled with a wiring cabinet on the wall with a cable modem, firewall, router, and switch. …
Virtualization Manager 7 has just been released – Analyze the Past, Fix the Present, Prepare for the Future It’s pretty epic with some great new features, but I’m going to concentrate on the deployment of the virtual appliance (vApp) itself.
I’ve been thinking recently about complete stack monitoring and how a good solution should be like a teenager – it can primarily take care of itself, but occasionally needs to have someone step in and give it direction.
The November Post-A-Day challenge (better known as #vDM30in30) has begun and I’m going to commit to making a post a day. I’ll be honest, I don’t know too much about the Virtual Design Management, but I do love a challenge – specifically this challenge.
