Patch Tuesday. We’ve all heard this phrase and cringed at one time or another. While it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re about to go crazy patching your entire Windows environment, it does mean that the monthly cycle of evaluating the patches you plan on deploying in your environment begins once again. Recently, Microsoft has fundamentally changed …
I am a long time Cisco UCS Manager user, and I have always used the Java interface. Why? Good question, and this Cisco USS question does not have a very good answer, other than the Cisco UCS Java interface is what I am used to using. I will admit, I did give the HTML client …
When Cisco releases an update to the Cisco UCS Emulator, you may want to move your configuration to the newer version. While many times the Cisco UCS Platform Emulator can be used for quick testing and verification, there are some cases where you may have a fairly detailed configuration you wish to migrate to the …
I’ve been a fan of Veeam for a very long time. Since I do a lot with NetApp storage, I want to specifically talk about one Veeam feature that stands out for me, and that’s Backup from Storage Snapshots. What Backup from Storage Snapshots does is allow me to leverage NetApp Snapshots under the covers …
The latest and greatest version of Cisco’s UCS Platform Emulator is version 3.1(2bPE1), which was released at the end of September 2016. This version brings some new enhancements to the UCS Platform Emulator. Before we examine those enhancements, let’s take a look on how to stay up to date with the UCS Platform Emulator. The …
As of November 2016, I am VMware Certified Design Expert Number 236 in Data Center Virtualization. This is something I’ve had my eye set on accomplishing for a very, very long time. How long? We’re talking six years in the making. I vividly remember sitting at my desk and looking for VCP information (on version …