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Author Archives: Gabriel
Late to the party, passed VCP4 today.
This is the first certification exam I have ever taken. In the past I looked into taking MCSE and its variants, I have also gone through the RHCE courses but that was mostly for my own personal knowledge, not so much about certification. … Continue reading
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Price per VM calculations, an exercise in crazy
First let me preface that the pricing involved here is generalized at best, and should in no way be a true 100% accurate reflection of any named Vendors pricing. I’ve tried to provide a true cost of ownership for the … Continue reading
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Some random musing on the storage industry as a whole
I have a lot of thoughts on the path storage is moving which might take a few pages to expound upon. I’ll probably update this as I consolidate my line of thought, but here is what I’m seeing right now: … Continue reading
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Benchmarking Tools under the covers
Through Howard Marks and a discussion on needing new bench mark tools, I saw this link to Demartek digging under the covers of the various IO tools to find that some of those data sets really lend themselves well to … Continue reading
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HP Joins the Club for Hard Drive price increases
Chris Mellor over at El Reg has the specifics. Consider this no big surprise as all the big vendors will follow suit, and the trickle down will hit the storage industry as a whole. The big mystery factor will be … Continue reading
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Virtual Toys for Tots
The good folks over at Xangati are running a #virtualtoysfortots campaign Xangati pledges to donate up to 250 toys to the program – but we need your tweets – to fill up the bins before Dec 20th. Take the few seconds now to … Continue reading
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Drive manufactures increasing prices, reducing warranties
EMC announced that they will be putting a 15% premium for the price of all drives indefinateley because of the flooding in Thailand. That can’t make their customer base very happy. Still nothing says “get that end of the year … Continue reading
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Holiday Present from Veeam
Are you a vExpert? VCP? VCI? VMUG member? Well if you are then Veeam has a present for you. If you are a VMware vExpert, VMware Certified Professional (VCP), VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) or VMware User Group (VMUG) member, you can … Continue reading
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