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Update on Unitrends | dorkfolio

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A higher up at Unitrends read my article on here. In the mean time, we have decided to extend our service agreement and get into a newer physical appliance as well, so we will see how that goes. I’m sure you’ll be hearing more about this in the future. Common Sense in the Cloud Era. List: 10 Ways to Get a Job in IT. Red Gate Software – SQL Tools. RepoGen (Ubuntu soures.list generator).

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10 Ways to get a job in IT | dorkfolio

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List: 10 Ways to Get a Job in IT. When I first started out in Enterprise Information Technology, a lot of times people would ask me how I landed the job I had. I had virtually no official training, I had very few hookups in the industry and I was a younger kid. This is a list of 10 things that I did and would do to land myself a job – so without further adieu, here we go:. Are you thinking about getting a sleeve of tattoos? Are your nicest pair of shoes a set of New Balance white velcro shoes? Spend a fo...

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8GB FC, 16GB FC, 10GBe iSCSI or 1GBe iSCSI. Which is right for your storage area network? | dorkfolio

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8GB FC, 16GB FC, 10GBe iSCSI or 1GBe iSCSI. Which is right for your storage area network? My first major suggestion: do some heavy monitoring of your current environment. See where your peaks are and where your low times are. See how much storage bandwidth you are currently using. Watch your disk queues and see if there are reads or writes just sitting in the pipe waiting to get served up. It’s all in how the array handles your IO. VMworld and VMware Updates. Common Sense in the Cloud Era.

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RoyalTS (Again) | dorkfolio

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Once again, I absolutely need to call out a program called RoyalTS. Perhaps you remember when I wrote about it before. Anyway, they’ve released a new version (v3) and it is filled with new features. And a pretty overhauled GUI. I don’t know why this company isn’t getting more traction among systems administrators because it quite literally is one of about 3 programs that is always open on my computer (along with vSphere Client and a web browser). VMworld and VMware Updates.

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Happy New Year | dorkfolio

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I have a lot of stuff to talk about this next year – including a few things that you should be on the lookout for. 2 Windows 10 / Windows Server “Threshold” (2015). 3 10TB Hard Disks. 4 Containers – probably not my favorite thing in the world, but a few companies are making a dent. I’ll try to be a bit more vigilant in the coming year writing. List: 10 Ways to Get a Job in IT. Red Gate Software – SQL Tools. RepoGen (Ubuntu soures.list generator).

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VMworld and VMware Updates | dorkfolio

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VMworld and VMware Updates. I have to say, VMworld was pretty fun this year and it’s bringing forward a LOT of really good (and needed) updates to the vSphere suite of products. Veeam announced Veeam 8, which has some sick new features too. I’ll touch on all these later. For now, let’s talk VMware. Fault Tolerance for VMs with up to 4 CPU Cores. VSphere Web Client that can manage ESXi Hosts. To be honest, I’m not a fan of the web client. But…. Updates to the Web Client for Stability and Speed. 8GB FC, 16...

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Common Sense in the Cloud Era | dorkfolio

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Common Sense in the Cloud Era. We’ve recently been hit over the head with the news reporting a supposed hack of Apple’s iCloud Service (perhaps not the service itself, but it could have been brute force password hacks, the “I forgot my password” questions or maybe even social engineering, all of which is still considered “hacking”) and the distribution of private photos of celebrities. There is a LOT of publicly available information about celebs. That means when choosing some “I forgot my pass...The adv...

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RoyalTS | dorkfolio

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If there was ever a tool for a systems administrator out there that had a lot of tools in one, this is it. I’m not usually a massive advocate of paid simple software, but this program is absolutely worth the money. RoyalTS. Has both RDP and SSH included in it as well as a pretty basic web browser for those web based interfaces you want to work on (routers, switches, load balancers, whatever hardware you have that has a web interface). Beginning Learning SQL – Post 8 – Less than, Greater than.

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Veeam VS Unitrends | dorkfolio

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Unitrends comes in a few different packages – you can buy an appliance from them (which is what we have) and they also now offer Unitrends Enterprise Backup, which basically is a VM that is almost the same thing as the. Veeam on the other hand is installed on a Windows machine, requires a SQL Server database (it will install SQL Express if you don’t have a full out SQL Server infrastructure). Veeam does an extremely good job at. So that said here is the comparison:. 4 Solid Feature Set. 1 Unintuitive and...