Like most others out there, I have recently started hearing the ESX/VMware vs Hyper-V/Microsoft questions popping up throughout my day. While I have little experience with Hyper-V, R2 certainly brings an impressive amount of features and several compelling arguments for it’s use over VMware’s product offerings. If you are a small to medium sized shop [...]
Since the primary objective of this blog is centered around tips and tricks I come across during my day to day work, I will from time to time give props to a tool out there that really changes how I do things. There are so many folks out there working on these types of tools/apps, [...]
First, let me say that in my dealings with ESX, a snapshot deletion process will rarely timeout if your snapshots are properly managed. Snapshots are meant to be taken before modifying the guest OS, and then removed within 2 or 3 days. Forgotten snapshots can cause a multitude of problems ranging from filling up your [...]
