Tag: Best Practices

Don’t put those DCs on your Shared Storage! (If you are running Hyper-V)

Don’t put those DCs on your Shared Storage! (If you are running Hyper-V)

I had a client call me in a complete panic recently with their entire environment completely down.  It was a real world example of a ... Read More

Lessons learned: Data Migrations (VMs or otherwise)

Lessons learned: Data Migrations (VMs or otherwise)

Whether you are moving files, Virtual Machines or other types of data from SAN to SAN or LUN to LUN, there are a few guiding ... Read More

Trivial FTP – Not so Trivial in a Citrix Provisioning Environment.

Trivial FTP – Not so Trivial in a Citrix Provisioning Environment.

If you have played around with Citrix Provisioning services, you will quickly realize that the TFTP Service can be a pretty big single point of ... Read More

Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 released.

Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 released.

I love Microsoft Security Essentials.  I love the integration, ease of updating, protection and the price! For an application as utilitarian as virus scanning, free ... Read More

Dude, Where’s My VM? I have no Idea. :(

Dude, Where’s My VM? I have no Idea. :(

Recently got an email from a friend who had (not by his doing) stepped into an environment where Virtual Machines had literally sprung up across ... Read More