Ultimate Deployment Appliance

I’m excitied to begin automating vSphere (ESX) server installations. I now have four servers, ready to install vSphere for our VMWare View environment. I could easily just bang them out one at a time with a USB DVD drive and KVM – but where is the fun in that? I’m going to use a community […]

Exchange 2010 SP1 Outlook Web App login customizations.

I’m updating the code in this article using BitTrack Decode HTML to provide you with easy to read code. I needed to add some code to the OWA page to help our Help Desk get people logged on quicker without so much hand holding. So here are the three changes I did to the file […]

New VMware vSphere Cluster

This month has been busy… very rewarding, but bizzzz-aye! Here’s our latest project come to close… upgrade our existing VMware infrastructure to new hardware to better utilize our existing licenses. Easy enough, right? Old environment: 3 x HP DL380 G5 servers, each identically configured as such: 2 x Dual Core Xeon Processors (1.6Ghz) 16 GB […]

Drobo Elite Performance Testing

I’ve had a Drobo Elite in my possession for way too long, and I would like to post this brief explanation of why I haven’t posted any test results yet. A few reasons actually… here we go. 1. Our test environment uses an HP ProCurve switch that claims can do etherchannel or port trunking. Unfortunately […]

VMware Visio Stencils

After dredging around looking for Visio Stencils I found the official post, then a broken link, and then finally a working link from Technodrone website. The files themselves are hosted on mediasite which is a pretty obnoxious with pop-ups and seizure inducing ads. Well, I’m reposting them here for an easy download: VMware-Stencil1-vSphere.zip VMware-Stencil2-vSphere.zip