Recent Blog Articles
- Disable SSL in VMware Converter for Faster Performance
- Conduct your physical to virtual conversion 20% faster by following a few simple steps.
- Added on: 05.20.13, by Sean Trifero
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- Is Your Website Turning Away Visitors on Mobile Devices?
- If your website is not optimized for mobile devices, you may be turning a sizable percentage of traffic - possibly as much as 50% of your visitors, away from your website.
- Added on: 05.13.13, by Jeremy Girard
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- Migrating vCenter Custom Annotations
- About a year ago, we were working on a client environment where an old vCenter server was being replaced (one which we did not want to bring the full configuration forward on), but on which custom annotations had been created, and thus embedded, into the old vCenter database. Migrating them manually would have been a labor-intensive task since there were six custom fields and over 500 VM’s, so we had to come up with an innovative solution for this project.
- Added on: 04.11.13, by Sean Trifero
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- What’s the Difference Between a Responsive Website and a Regular Website?
- When we speak with our clients about multi-device support for their websites, the solution we recommend is a "responsive" website. Let's take a real world look at the difference between a responsive website and a normal one.
- Added on: 04.03.13, by Jeremy Girard
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- Deploying SSL for VMware View 5.1 Connection/Security Servers
- Certificate installation & administration has always been a challenging task to perform on VMware products. This article will outline the steps needed to perform this in a relatively quick manner using a surrogate server to create the certificate.
- Added on: 03.21.13, by Sean Trifero
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- Standalone vSphere ESXi Storage vMotions
- A number of times, I have experienced an issue that resulted in either downtime for the client or additional work for our engineers. The scenario has been similar in each case, a standalone ESXi host w/ DAS that needs to migrate its VMs from DAS to a SAN/NAS or other DAS. To solve this problem, I came up with a pretty simple solution. It only takes 12 minutes to stage and it also gives the client an opportunity to evaluate vCenter and its many capabilities/features.
- Added on: 03.13.13, by Sean Trifero
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- Easily Updating Your Website with the ExpressionEngine Content Management System
- A shared characteristic of all successful websites is that they include content that is current and relevant. Here's a look at how you can use the ExpressionEngine CMS (content management system) to easily manage your website's content without needing to learn website code.
- Added on: 03.04.13, by Jeremy Girard
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- Storage vMotion Fails Because Veeam Disables It
- When the current version of Veeam kicks off a job it locks the VM’s ability to be Storage vMotioned. This is a good thing, since a backup job will likely push the datastore IOPs up and cause some unusual latency When the Veeam job completes it’s supposed to remove the lock, but if the backup fails, the lock will sometimes remain in place. Senior Engineer, Andy Ward, submits this tip for addressing this issue.
- Added on: 02.26.13, by Andy Ward
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- TinyCore Builder for VMware View Demo
- The TinyCore Builder for VMware View is a great tool to create a customized boot image to access your virtual desktops. This article looks at a list of options offered, their descriptions, and some example values.
- Added on: 02.19.13, by Sean Trifero
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- Veeam Backup & Replication Off-Site Replication Walkthrough
- Veeam is a backup tool that we like to use with the virtual environments we deploy. There are many possible options and steps in creating an off-site replication job (or even a local on-site job!) with Veeam. Here we have outlined one example that we might setup for our clients who are doing off-site replication with Veeam.
- Added on: 02.11.13, by Jeff Wilhelm
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- Excuse Me Sir, You Owe Me Money For Breathing
- Lawsuits are starting to popup everywhere in technology - your business may have even received an official looking letter informing you that you were in violation of a patent and were obligated to pay a licensing fee. Patent law is a dark and scary land - like that place in The Lion King that the light doesn’t touch, you must never go there.
- Added on: 02.08.13, by Todd Knapp
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- Does My Business Need a Mobile Website or a Mobile App?
- Both mobile websites and mobile apps have their strengths and weaknesses. I use a very simple method to determine which of these is right for a company’s particular needs – I start by determining what those needs are.
- Added on: 02.04.13, by Jeremy Girard
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- Bandwidth Limiting Rsync on a Netgear ReadyNAS
- A number of our clients dump backups to a Netgear ReadyNAS, and then replicate the contents of that share to another offsite ReadyNAS using rsync. A problem we recently encountered was the replication was consuming most of the bandwidth when rsync was running. We could have done traffic shaping or QoS to resolve the issue, but instead we decided to solve this within the ReadyNAS itself.
- Added on: 01.30.13, by Sean Trifero
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- Deploying a Wireless Network with Aruba in Ten Minutes
- A quick tutorial on a ten-minute Aruba wireless deployment using the virtual controller "Instant" AP-105 access points.
- Added on: 01.22.13, by Jeff Wilhelm
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- Fixing the NetApp OnCommand System Manager’s Slow Interface
- The OnCommand System Manager by NetApp has been a thorn in our sides since its creation. The buggy interface and extremely slow performance has pushed us to using the CLI for every task. Despite the bugs and latency we still find ourselves using it for LUN creation on a daily basis, suffering through the long load times.
- Added on: 01.17.13, by Sean Trifero
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- The Business of Advertising on Facebook
- GM’s recent decision to pull their ads off of Facebook because they “have had little impact on consumers” is generating quite a bit of buzz and getting other companies to question whether it makes sense to advertise on the social network.
- Added on: 05.16.12, by Jeremy Girard
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- Who owns your company’s Twitter account?
- A California company has sued one of its former employees, after he he took 17,000 Twitter followers when he left the firm.
- Added on: 12.29.11, by
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- Changes to LinkedIn Advertising and Your Privacy
- This week, LinkedIn opted in most of its 100 million users to share their private information across new social advertisements. This privacy change with social advertising was quietly announced via a blog post. 2 days later, they suspended this advertising scheme after user backlash and threats of closing accounts.
- Added on: 08.12.11, by
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- Broadband Wifi Face Off: Samsung Vs. NovaTel MiFi
- This afternoon, while traveling to VT, I stopped by a Verizon store because my 4G mobile access point was having issues. While there, I did three things: 1) I picked up a new Samsung 10.1 Tab, 2) I had my Samsung 4G-LTE access point replaced & 3) I purchased another 4G access point made by NovaTel (the MIFI)
- Added on: 08.10.11, by Todd Knapp
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- Time to Get Mobilized
- As the Director Web Development for Envision Technology Advisors, a question I often get asked by clients is: “Do I need a mobile website?” You may have asked this question yourself – so let’s take a look at a few statistics...
- Added on: 05.19.11, by Jeremy Girard
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