Rick riffs on legacy apps, automation and storage for the new year.
- By Rick Vanover
- 01/13/2016
Just because a site has just one server doesn't mean it can't -- or shouldn't -- be virtualized.
- By Rick Vanover
- 08/26/2015
If you're using vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), you'll eventually get to a point where you need to set some rules.
- By Rick Vanover
- 01/06/2015
One thing that is a must for most organizations is to join the vCenter Server to Active Directory. A few words of advice to do this smoothly.
- By Rick Vanover
- 05/28/2014
Some handy tips to save space and keep Hyper-V VMs from bogging down the rest of your systems.
- By Rick Vanover
- 05/13/2014
It's always a good idea to make sure your hardware firmware and BIOS is updated prior to a major undertaking such as upgrading a server for hypervisor work. Besides, it's not that hard to do in the first place.
- By Rick Vanover
- 02/26/2014
It's read-only, but it's a big enough boost in speed to matter.
- By Rick Vanover
- 01/16/2014
We've come so far with this virtualized infrastructure in terms of everything else, so is the application the problem now?
- By Rick Vanover
- 01/06/2014
Storage costs remain steady, but some new approaches for virtualizing storage are making it faster and more accessible.
- By Rick Vanover
- 10/01/2013
When it comes to Hyper-V VMs, there are a lot of things set as default.
- By Rick Vanover
- 08/01/2013
I find myself working within vSphere Web Client more these days, and using the product is growing on me.
- By Rick Vanover
- 07/01/2013
In case you haven't heard, the messaging at VMware nowadays revolves around cloud computing.
- By Rick Vanover
- 03/01/2011
You may want to implement a sub-cluster within a VMware DRS cluster for a number of reason.
- By Rick Vanover
- 11/04/2010
All too often, organizations function without a Service Level Agreement (SLA) in the face of stringent expectations.
- By Rick Vanover
- 11/01/2010
VirtualBox users are out there and alive and well in the virtualization community -- so much so that the inaugural Virtumania podcast topic was the free type 2 hypervisor.
- By Rick Vanover
- 09/01/2010