Tony

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Jul 23

Funny ways to explain things…

Since I do tech support, installation, and some pre-sales where I currently work I have to come up with interesting ways to explain different aspects of technology in non-technical terms. Most of these revolve around Dell/EqualLogic storage. They may help you they may not. You may even find them funny. If they’re helpful feel free …

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Jul 10

Configuring vSwitches From an SSH Session on an ESXi Host

Most of the time I work with SMB sized customers. Most of them don’t want or need to know the ends and outs of their vSwitch configuration (or much of the underlying configuration at all) because they don’t intend on needing to change it. If they want to modify something they will send in a …

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Jun 26

The wheels on Willy Wonka’s bus go round and crossways…

While driving  back to my hotel this evening from a clients site I had an interesting thought… Now I wonder how it can be applied to virtualization and storage… Here’s the thought: I grew up in a little town in Kansas and I knew all the back roads and roads that didn’t exist and all …

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Jun 04

VeeamZIP Released Today

Today Veeam released something awesome! Veeam 6.1. Normally I don’t blog about products Eagle,  the company I work for, doesn’t currently sell. This is a special case. Veeam has released something that I am excited to talk about. Rick Vanover  (@RickVanover) invited me to a sneak peak of Veeam 6.1 last Friday. During this peak …

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May 10

Storage in 3D or maybe 4D (multidimensional arrays)

4 Cubes

Last night I had this strange dream where I was literally arranging the interior walls of a hotel on a very high floor. I’d grab a wall and drag it into place then another one. For some reason it seemed like my task was to create the most efficient use of space. This got me …

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Apr 30

My VMware a Presentation to VMware

On Thursday April 26, 2012 Scott Bajtos of VMware & Tony Foster of Eagle Software presented at the VMware company wide “All Hands” meeting.  The company wide meeting was held at  VMware Corporate Head Quarters in Palo Alto and was attended by ~15,000 VMware employees both physically and virtually. Scott & Tony presented on the impact …

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Mar 27

Doomsday Preparation for companies

Time for a random (sort of) dream post around disaster recovery. This post is aimed at those companies that see themselves as preppers. It’s not for the individual home owner this is for the business that wants to avoid a dooms day scenario. Many companies have disaster recovery (DR) plans in place they may even …

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Mar 24

Moving a vCenter from one site to another with a virtual distributed switch

After 3 weeks of planning to post this I finally get to put the finishing touches on it and get it posted. It’s midnight here and I’m talking with my wife on the phone after wrapping up my install for the day and my professional services for one of our clients this evening… Strangely enough …

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Feb 22

Lenten Traveling Tips…

Happy Ash Wednesday to all, Today for Christians, we start the Lenten season (http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/liturgical-resources/lent/) with Ash Wednesday. This is a time of preparation. It’s about 40 days in length. This time is no coincidence, how long were the Israelites wandering in the desert when they fled from Egypt? How long did Christ spend in the …

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Feb 16

Program the elevator to the cloud

I don’t know how many of you took programming in college (or were lucky enough to take it in high school). Do you remember having the task of programming elevators for optimal performance? You know given X elevators and Y floors you need to figure out the best place to put the elevators and the …

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