Tech Talk

I blogged previously about a ‘local’ VMUG in Wilmington, NC, but since then, I received word of a VMUG much closer to home.  The first meeting for a Myrtle Beach VMware Users Group will be held on Aug 6 from 12 until 2 pm at Barefoot Resort in North Myrtle Beach.  Me and several of [...]

The bain of a sysadmin’s existence is documention.  Most of us hate doing the tedious paperwork, but doing so helps the group around you and many times yourself once you’ve moved on to new projects.  I know its a struggle for me and my co-workers. 
Part of the problem is that documentation tends to get outdated. [...]

The past month of my life has been spent dealing with the fall-out over a massive failure of our local blade enclosure.

Twas the night of new years, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.  The little one had passed out, and we’d put her to bed.  We had all celebrated with Carson, Dick Clark and the rest. Mom in her kerchief and I in my cap, had just settled [...]

We met with Dell via conference call last week to go over their offering for thin-clients.  They basically showed off their Optiplex FX160 thin client.  To me, its more of a very small PC than thin-client with options of adding a hard drive and other hardware.  It does run XP Embed or a SUSE LInux. [...]

Its been a fairly slow week around work.  Having caught up with several projects and entered waiting phase for some things, its been a week mostly dealing with cleanup.  The only real ‘action’ is trying to patch for Microsoft’s latest vulnerability – the remote code exploit that was announced last week.  The patch seems mostly [...]

Last week, my supervisor asked the group to provide him with goals for our coming year as part of the annual review process.  I find this particularly difficult – as I tend to be fairly proactive and take care of things quickly when I see something arise.  Planning goals a year out has always been [...]

It’s been a busy week with vendor meetings.  We’ve had both Symantec and Microsoft in this week to discuss software offerings and our status with their products.  Its hard to get the hard sales pitch from either company and honestly, I feel for their sales reps.  Its a hard economy and it seems a little [...]

For a couple of months now, we’ve been trying to sort through the mess that is Microsoft’s licensing for the virtual world.  Our research culminated today with a meeting with several Microsoft employees about the status of licensing and the product portfolio that Microsoft is offering.  The biggest issue we’ve had is getting straight answers [...]

As an update to my earlier post, we did need to replace our power supplies in the two enclosures that we had purchased.  We are in the process of replacing them over the next two days.  Our replacement units arrived in our warehouse yesterday.  I will upate with the process as we complete it.