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January 26, 2013 Hersey

vBrownBag VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Demo

I presented a VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) demo for the US vBrownBag and here is the recording.

Gadgets vHersey

January 16, 2013 Hersey

Cool New Toy – Zalman VE-300

The Zalman VE-300 can be mounted as a USB Harddrive and any ISO stored in the _iso directory on the drive can be directly mounted as an optical device.

Storage vHersey VMware

December 31, 2012 Hersey

Home Lab SRM – Part 2 – Configuring SRM

In Home Lab SRM Part 1 I set up the lab environment to appear as two separate “sites” with all the components necessary for SRM with Array replication. Now to configure SRM to protect VMs at both of my sites.

Storage vHersey VMware

December 29, 2012 Hersey

Home Lab SRM – Part 1- Environment Setup

Needed to brush up a bit on SRM for a couple of projects I am working on so I set up an environment in my home lab to practice up on the installation, configuration, and testing of SRM.

DCA vHersey VMware

December 1, 2012 Hersey

The Home Lab “Black Friday” Upgrade

I have been running my home lab in Workstation for a good while now and it has served me well especially throughout my VCAP-DCA study. I am starting to do a bit more testing and proof-of-concept stuff with vSphere 5 and VDI so I need a little more.

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November 30, 2012 Hersey

VCAP-DCD Pass!

On Monday, November 26, 2012, I sat and PASSED the VCAP-DCD for vSphere 5!!!

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November 22, 2012 Hersey

Adding NFS Storage to AutoLab NAS

I am doing some VDI testing in my home lab and I need a bit more storage than is available in the default NAS build included with AutoLab. Fortunately it is very easy to add more storage to the FreeNAS VM and it can even be done without taking the NAS VM offline.

vHersey

November 6, 2012 Hersey

My New Job!

For the past 20+ years I have been an administrator. Managing, maintaining, and building my own system. For the past 5 years I have also managed team of technicians. This job is a bit different from any other I have had and I am excited (and a little nervous).

VITA VMware

October 5, 2012 Hersey

Locked out of the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance

If an Active Directory authenticated user has 3 failed login attempts against the vCenter Server Appliance they become locked out, even if they are not locked out of AD they will not be able to access the vCenter Server.