Jeremiah's Blog

Another new Year in IT

2008-12-28T18:31:00.000-08:00

2008 has been quite a ride, I look forward to what 2009 has in store for us. In 2008, Varrow grew from 5 employees to 20 and we added a great number of new customers and greatly improved our vendor relationship status with Citrix, VMWare and EMC. In 2009, we will continue to be focused on Virtualization, Storage and Disaster Recovery. There may be a few new technologies that get added to our

FW: Our First Storage Vmotion

2007-12-19T08:38:00.001-08:00

Another note from Jeremy - his first Storage Vmotion with ESX 3.5 Jeremiah From: Jeremy Waldrop Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:31 AM To: Jeremiah Cook; Dan Weiss - Varrow Charlotte Subject: Storage Vmotion I performed my first storage vmotion today. I moved a running Windows 2003 VM that has a 10 GB C drive from one data store to another

FW: VI 2.5/3.5 Install

2007-12-14T06:20:00.000-08:00

This is a nice quick overview of the differences in the install of ESX 3.5 and 2.5 from one of our VMWare Engineers at Varrow, Jeremy Waldrop. (yeah, I know, Jeremy and Jeremiah, confusing)JeremiahFrom: Jeremy WaldropSent: Friday, December 14, 2007 9:09 AMTo: Jeremiah Cook; Dan WeissSubject: VI 2.5/3.5 InstallI did my first installation of VC 2.5 and ESX 3.5 yesterday. The ESX 3.5 install I just

EMC can provision 1000 VDI images from Thin Provisioned iSCSI read/write Snapshots in Minutes

2007-12-13T06:59:00.001-08:00

Not sure if you heard but EMC has released a solutions architecture similar to that of Netapp flexclones. It is available now on current Dart code for NS line. I'll get more data when I have it, I just thought this was kind of cool. Apparently there is a Video floating around and the solutions architecture document, I'll let you know when I get my hands on it. Apparently, the video demonstrates

FW: How to Hide the "Q" Drive On SoftGrid Clients

2007-10-21T11:08:00.001-07:00

Nice tip. Feed: DABCC | Citrix, VMware, VDI, Virtualization, Terminal Server, Windows Vista News and Support Posted on: Friday, October 19, 2007 9:01 AM Author: DABCC | Citrix, VMware, VDI, Virtualization, Terminal Server, Windows Vista News and Support Subject: How to Hide the "Q" Drive On SoftGrid Clients So finally you have gone through

Marathon vs Neverfail

2007-08-15T07:44:00.001-07:00

Just because I reference some good notes from a Marathon blog doesn’t mean I love the Marathon product per se. I still think the Neverfail Group offers a better solution for most, if not all of my customers for High Availability and Replication. http://www.neverfailgroup.com Here are some of my Marathon Gripes I have with Marathon, Neverfail doesn’t have these same problems, wait

Availability

2007-08-15T07:31:00.003-07:00

Feed: Are you available tonight? Posted on: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 3:50 PM Author: admin Subject: Availability Everyone is talking about it as if everyone can provide it, one way or another. Once you dig just slightly below the surface it becomes apparent that there are nearly as many definitions for availability as there are vendors touting

Clustering

2007-08-15T07:31:00.001-07:00

Feed: Are you available tonight? Posted on: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 4:40 PM Author: admin Subject: Clustering Diana Huggins, a blogger for IT Professionals, describes clustering as: "a technology that lets you increase the availability of a server, service or application so it does not become a single point of failure." This

Continuous Availability

2007-08-15T07:30:00.009-07:00

Feed: Are you available tonight? Posted on: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 4:44 PM Author: admin Subject: Continuous Availability Continuous availability virtually guarantees a computing system is operational in the event of any disruption. The concerns for continuous availability focus on two things, the recovery of applications, data and data

Data Replication

2007-08-15T07:30:00.007-07:00

Feed: Are you available tonight? Posted on: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 4:45 PM Author: admin Subject: Data Replication This is the term that has caused the most confusion within the market, yet provides the lowest level of availability and requires a fairly heavy implementation process. Data replication can be more accurately described as a data

Disaster Recovery

2007-08-15T07:30:00.005-07:00

Feed: Are you available tonight? Posted on: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 4:46 PM Author: admin Subject: Disaster Recovery Disaster recovery is a plan which enables the protection and restoration of critical information in the event of disruption. Disaster recovery management includes functions such as identifying the critical and vital information,

Fault-Tolerant

2007-08-15T07:30:00.003-07:00

Feed: Are you available tonight? Posted on: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 4:47 PM Author: admin Subject: Fault-Tolerant Fault-tolerant architecture allows a system to continue working even when part of the system fails. Fault-tolerant servers provide continuous availability through hardware failures by utilizing and operating redundant components.

High Availability (HA)

2007-08-15T07:30:00.001-07:00

Feed: Are you available tonight? Posted on: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 4:49 PM Author: admin Subject: High Availability (HA) Virtualization.info blogger Alessandro Perilli, describes the importance of high availability here stating: "In case downtimes are not affordable at all we have to approach high availability configurations, where

Webcast: Microsoft Server Virtualization Licensing

2007-07-31T05:17:00.000-07:00

Source - Virtualization.info http://www.virtualization.info/2007/07/webcast-microsoft-server-virtualization.htmlWebcast: Microsoft Server Virtualization LicensingThursday, July 26, 2007Microsoft published a 26-minutes on demand webcast about its licensing model applied to virtualization scenarios.This is a must see video for anyone using Microsoft technology on Windows. The key point to take from

Microsoft details Windows licensing for 3rd party virtualization platforms

2007-07-31T05:07:00.000-07:00

Source - Virtualization.info - http://www.virtualization.info/2007/06/microsoft-details-windows-licensing-for.htmlJeremiah's quick take on this: Buy Dual Socket Quad Core Servers and always buy datacenter edition of Windows if you ever plan on running more than 8 or 9 Virtual Machines on a single host.Microsoft details Windows licensing for 3rd party virtualization platformsMonday, June 11,

RIBCL: Reset Administrator Password on iLO

2006-10-02T13:25:00.000-07:00

http://blog.netnerds.net/2006/04/ribcl-reset-administrator-password-on-ilo/

How to remove PSTs from Outlook Profile with a script

2006-08-24T13:44:00.000-07:00

I have a few customers implementing DisablePST via a custom .adm template that my coworker Jeremy Waldrop put together. Oddly enough, setting DisablePST to 1, on its own, does not disable the ability to open an existing .pst file. To block that feature, you can disable the File Open Outlook Data File command with a Group Policy Object using the setting "Disable command bar buttons and menu item

AQADMCLI

2004-08-23T06:01:00.000-07:00

Have you ever needed to clean out a big SMTP Queue just full of a load of like 5000+ messages, like NDR spam and such. Well I have had to do this plenty of times at different customers. Now that most of my customers now have exchange 2003 and recipient filtering (read about recipient filtering here http://blogs.msdn.com/dlemson/archive/2004/01/19/60388.aspx ) , I no longer have to worry about

Print appointment with attendee status - Fix Bug in Outlook when printing another users calendar

2004-08-19T06:32:00.000-07:00

http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=37 Have you ever needed to open someone elses calendar and look at one of their appointments and then print it. Well, neither have I but one of my customers is a law firm and their paralegals print out lawyer appointments and put them in a file to give to their lawyers. So in outlook 2003, they open the lawyers shared personal calendar and open the