If there’s one thing I’m good for, it is the latest Internet sensation. I started paying with cryptocurrencies several years ago to play the CryptoKitties game, which was based on Ethereum. Let me tell you, those were some expensive digital cats, and I didn’t bother playing it for very long. This week, I started farming …
One of the things I have always found amazing with Veeam is the Backup from Storage Snapshots feature. The quick description of this amazing feature is that it performs your backup from your storage snapshot versus a vSphere snapshot. While it still takes a VMware snapshot of your virtual machine, the snapshot is open …
This year, I’ll be heading to #NetAppInsight Las Vegas for the first time as a presenter. NetApp Insight is where the original Vanna White FlexPod pose originated back in 2012, if you’ve been keeping track of those. Little did I know back then that I would be attending NetApp Insight as a presenter on the Converged …
I was strolling through the park one day, in the merry merry month of May. Well, not really, but there’s a Drobo 5D in my house that has years and years worth of pictures on it. Why did I get a Drobo 5D anyway? I was pleased with my Drobo 5S and we needed another …
If you’re a NetApp customer, and you’re running a VMware environment, you must be using the NetApp Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere. Right? I sure hope so. If you aren’t you should be, and you should be installing it after you finish reading this post. It is free after all. In addition to VSC …
As I’m sure many of you know, I work for NetApp as a Systems Engineer. Before I worked for NetApp, I was a NetApp customer, but not in the way you may be thinking. You see, I wasn’t a storage engineer, I was a virtualization engineer. About half of my environment had a NetApp storage …