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Lab Day! (aka ESX 5.1 Whitebox server build)
OK so I’ve been hobbling along for almost 2 years now since my last lab refresh and its beginning to show. With so many modern components requiring 4-8GB vms and the increasing rate of disk failures it...
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Backing up and restoring the SRM database
Without the sa password! Let suppose for just a moment that you’re in a situation where you can’t snapshot the SRM database server. Maybe it’s shared or perhaps you cant shut it down to get a clean...
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Amateur hour at IBM
I think the world of IBM. I worked there in the 90s and anyone that wants to stuff my brain full of bat-shit tech goodness is more than welcome to do so. But everyone has high points and low points and...
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Things the vendor forgot to mention…
Well it’s the end of another fun week onsite wrestling with SRM and 3rd party SRAs. Sometimes SRAs are fairly straightforward and well documented, sometimes they’re not. Despite a fairly thick package...
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Disaster recovery versus Disaster Avoidance… What’s the difference?
Several years ago I worked for EMC as a vSpecialist which meant that I played an evangelist role as a pre-sales resource able to help the account and marketing teams. I would travel to customers, trade...
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