2015 Sep 21 By Deathmage85 0 comment

Took the CompTIA Storage + exam on Saturday and passed, it was a pretty straightforward exam, I enjoyed it quite a bit. The study prep for it was also nice to learn, learned a number of things that will follow me through in my datacenter and system administration roles. Will use the knowledge from it to make effective datacenter decision moving forward, and I will have ap lan on my shelf for the book for reference. Study Material Used: Pluralsight: Nigel Poulon. CBT Nuggets: Jeremy Storage Networking book by Nigel Poulon. Onward to the Cisco CCNA:R&S (ICDN2) pursuit to finish…

2015 Sep 14 By Deathmage85 0 comment

Reading an article online today about a fix to an issue involving Windows Server 2008 R2 and it’s write performance to a Back-End SAN it made me curious. Since in a VMware world, especially, your always looking for way to improve back-end performance for SQL and other write intensive servers/applications and bleed as much perofrmance as possible.   After applying this hotfix perofrmance improved for Writes as-well as on reads.   Hopefully this hotfix helps other as it has helped me. 🙂   https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2769701

2015 Sep 02 By Deathmage85 0 comment

So the last few days I’ve been using Veeam’s Backup program for backing up VM’s at work to give the tool a try and I really like it. Last week I got the VMware vExpert Award and I found out I can have Veeam Backup and Replication v8 for 1 year for my home-lab and I’ve been giving it a try. I like it quite a bit thus far and I might very well push for it at my work so we can have outstanding backups!!!!! Here is a link to a video on the product: What’s new in v8…

2015 Sep 01 By Deathmage85 0 comment

So I’m adding pain to misery to my certification madness. Since CompTIA announced that on Jan. 15th 2015 they will be discontinuing Storage + and I’ve always wanted it I’ve added the Storage + exam prep to my Cisco ICDN2 study time as-well.   So since I’m a man of goals and pushing my knowledge, I’ve schedule the exam for the 19th of September. I’ve finished Nigel’s book on the subject and now I’m doing Pluralsight and CBT Nuggets video review leading up to the exam.   Adding pain to insult and doing Project + on the following weekend.  …