Open Systems SnapVault (OSSV) is a data replication/protection software from NetApp. OSSV runs on Windows, UNIX/LINUX, and VMWare ESX servers and it replicates block level changes back to a NetApp filer. We use this technology to replicate the data on all of branch office servers back to our datacenter. This replication allowed us to remove [...]
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Open Systems SnapVault (OSSV) Web Reporting
September 10, 2008Virtualization Gripes (part 1)
August 29, 2008Virtualization is not new, it has been around for a number of years. So why are so many software vendors afraid of it, and even worse hostile to it? We run a number of different application that have license managers for their software. These license managers are often a service and sometimes a hardware lock [...]
Virtualization Begins
August 25, 2008For about the past nine months I’ve been working on growing the use of virtualiztion within my firm. We had dabbled with virtualizing a couple of misc. application/development servers with the first release of VMWare Server, but I knew that in order to consolidate the rest of environment, as well as better prepare us for [...]
Sparklining Excel
September 4, 2007According to Wikipedia a sparkline is a
“small, high resolution graphics embedded in a context of words, numbers, images … Whereas the typical chart is designed to show as much data as possible, and is set off from the flow of text, sparklines are intended to be succinct, memorable, and located where they are discussed. Their [...]
A Supreme Nerd God
May 16, 2007Supposedly that is what I am, a Supreme Nerd God. At least according the NerdTests.com Here is how I rated:
Overall, you scored as follows:
3% scored higher (more nerdy),
0% scored the same, and
97% scored lower (less nerdy).
What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:
All hail the monstrous nerd. You are by far the SUPREME NERD GOD!!!
No I [...]
Review: SB EventLog Monitor
May 14, 2007I have only one thing to say about this product, “How did I ever live without it”. If you manage more than one Microsoft Windows Server then you definitely need to be using SB EventLog Monitor.
So what does SB EventLog Monitor do that is so great, it collects, collates, and reports via a web interface [...]
Review: Script Your Documentation Instantly
May 11, 2007If you are anything like me you probably have little to no documentation on your servers. Probably it is because you don’t have the time or the personal to perform the tedious (and boring) work required; you know it is important, but other things seem to take priority. Well, you no longer have any excuse [...]
New Software to Evaluate
May 3, 2007While browsing through the depths of Sourceforge I ran across a number of different software packages that really caught my attention. I will begin looking at them in more depth over the next couple of days. I hope to write some reviews of the packages. If you’ve used any of the following software packages I’d [...]
Quickly Recreate Shares on Windows Servers
April 4, 2007So you’re upgrading your server and you need to either recreate all you network shares or you’ve moved data to another drive and you want to reshare your data. With a few simple commands and a little bit of excel you can quickly make this happen.
Net Shares Command
The first thing you need to do is [...]
NetApp Simulator Disk Fix
February 12, 2007One of the great things about NetApp is that you can actually run fully functional Data OnTap Simulator of their storage appliances on any UNIX machine. It is a great way to test their product suite and demo up solutions before deploying to your production environment. I do have one minor gripe that is that [...]
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