2017 May 03 By Deathmage85 0 comment

So today I got a nice email: So now I can start using the VMUG NSX training and I’m stoked! – going to get deep into the books now and study even harder. Want to take exam in two weeks now that I got some ICM love and official training on-top of the Synex book I’ve read over and the labbing in the home-lab. This is just more icing on the cake! Lets get this party started! Check back soon in a few weeks to see this:

2017 Feb 07 By Deathmage85 0 comment

Updated: 2/8/17 So over the weekend I was labbing as per normal and I’ve been running into contention issues with my network and I think my tested and true Cisco 3750G’s are finally meeting their makers. The bonded Quad 1G connections over a vDS are starting to show slowness. I am kind of hammering the crap out of the lab. It gets very slow when I set DRS/SDRS to fully automatic and the whole backup storage goes to a crawl once those 1G links are saturated. So I think I’m upgrading the Dell R610’s to 10G for ISCSI and LAN…

2015 Nov 05 By Deathmage85 0 comment

What is vExpert you might be asking yourself, and it’s a very valid question. It’s an offering from VMware to people that follow the VMware community and are supportive of the products they provide. It’s also for people that speak of VMware products at events, in blogs, on forums, and in social media. Now you all are probably like kool so it’s a neat looking title, but it’s so much more than that, namely speaking VMware provides licensing for their VMware products for the entire year of the title. This licensing if you bought it would cost 10’s of thousands…

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 Aug 25 By Deathmage85 0 comment

I got the VMware vExper 2015 award for being an active member of the VMware community. Looking forward to offer whatever I can to people that have questions as always with a helpful and kind personality.