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Greetings, fellow humans! I'm a proud dad of two awesome kids, and my other love is Cloud! Working for 20+ years in tech has taught me 2 things; always have a backup and yes, it was the network! When I'm not working as CTO, AWS @SoftwareOne, I write blogs and occasionally do a bit of podcasting too...-
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Quick Tip: Install a VIB into an Existing vSphere 5.5 ESXi Host
The following will likely work in other versions of vSphere, but I used it in vSphere 5.5 a while ago, then forgot to hit publish on this post! [..]
FreeNAS 0.7.2 NFS and iSCSI Performance in a vSphere 4.1 Lab
While doing some lab testing and benchmarking for my upcoming VCAP-DCD exam I came across some interesting results when messing about with NFS and iSCSI using FreeNAS. I plan [..]
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4.1, benchmarking, EMC Celerra, ESX, ESXi, FreeNAS, iSCSI, NFS, performance, SATA, SSD, VMware, vSphere
Safely Shrinking VMware Server / Workstation .vmdk Files
If like me, you originally implemented some of your VMs in VMware Server (or Workstation) as thick provisioned, and have subsequently changed your mind, the process for converting [..]
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