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Comment on Book Review – “Critical VMware Mistakes You Should Avoid – Larry Loucks” by Larry Loucks

Larry Loucks — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:47:45 +0000

Mattman, I just found this review this morning. Thanks for taking the time to read the book and write a review. I have a couple of other books coming out this year. Feel free to drop me an email I’d’ love to send the new materials to you free, as a way of saying “Thanks.”

Peace,

Larry Loucks

Comment on Never assume Windows 2008 is Aligned out of the box by Free Tool: Check To See If Your VMware Servers are Misaligned « paragonbloom

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:30:11 +0000

[...] a Great Article on: Never assume Windows 2008 is Aligned out of the box by VMware’s Matt Mancini [...]

Comment on VM Check Alignment Tool by Never assume Windows 2008 is Aligned out of the box « vmexplorer

Never assume Windows 2008 is Aligned out of the box « vmexplorer — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:43:28 +0000

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Comment on 4 Books in 4 Weeks – Book 3 How to compare Terminator 2 to VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive by mattman555

mattman555 — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:30:24 +0000

Here are the links I mentioned, I didn’t see you post till just now, I hope these are helpful to you.

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_availability.pdf

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW-Server-WP-BestPractices.pdf

Comment on Installing vCenter Server 4 with Windows 2008 64Bit and SQL2008 64Bit by sccthree

sccthree — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:34:19 +0000

Thanks for posting this. Made the whole process very very easy.

As you stated in the comments, I installed 4.1 and the ODBC connection piece needed to be different. Instead of using odbcad32.exe, I used Administrative Tools, Data Sources (ODBC). Would be nice if you could add a note in these instructions for those who run through them before reading the comments. :)

Thanks again!

Comment on 4 Books in 4 Weeks – Book 3 How to compare Terminator 2 to VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive by James Wood

James Wood — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:57:53 +0000

Matt,

Do you mind posting a link to the white paper you are referring to? There are so many published on this topic… thanks.

-James

Comment on 4 Books in 4 Weeks – Book 3 How to compare Terminator 2 to VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive by Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:36:42 +0000

The chapters/topics are fairly short in length too! This makes it easy to read a chapter in between doing other things, I hate starting chapters and not finishing them if I get interrupted. I also hate waiting for my tires to be rotated and having nothing to do. The two activities compliment each other.

Comment on 4 Books in 4 Weeks – Book 3 How to compare Terminator 2 to VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive by Duncan Yellow Bricks

Duncan Yellow Bricks — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:24:35 +0000

Thank you very much for the review!

Comment on Test Lab – Day 5 Expanding the IOMega ix12-300r by Travis

Travis — Fri, 27 May 2011 16:50:51 +0000

How’s the performance of your Iomega ix12-300r? I’m looking to do something similar as you for test lab storage and I’m considering the Iomega or the QNAP TS-859U-RP+. The 5900 rpm drives in the Iomega make me a bit leary of its performance.

Comment on 4 Books in 4 Weeks by Rob Bergin

Rob Bergin — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:25:24 +0000

I have SAN for Dummies – my favorite part – no reference to IOPs or IOs by disk type, etc – its priceless but its also an indicator that back when it was written how unimportant the topics were. SANs were either FC SCSI 10k or FC SCSI 15k – SATA was a dream as was SSD/EFD.