Tony

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Jun 13

CloudCred Videos

Yes I’m giving into gamification. I’m participating in VMware’s Cloud Cred program, err game. And I am shamelessly plugging their videos on my blog for a chance to win an Xbox. That said I will say these are pretty good videos filled with several Microsoft jokes. If you get a chance to watch them do. …

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Jun 11

VMware SRM 5.1 Delay the rescan…

While working on a demo of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) I kept getting the following error when I would try to test my recovery plan.   [error] Recovered datastore ‘snap-########-<LUN NAME>’ is not visible to host ‘<Host Name>’. Recovered VMFS volume ‘snap-########-<LUN NAME>’ is not visible or not mounted on host ‘<Host Name>’. Recovered …

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Apr 24

VMware Horizon Workspace Initial Setup

While building a demo environment of VMware Horizon Workspace for EMC World 2013 I found that if you want to use a domain administrative or service account for connecting Workspace to the vCenter (this is needed so that workspace can monitor its own VM’s health) you will need to negate the ‘\’ for the domain. …

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Feb 18

4 Months & Going Strong

I can’t believe its been a little over 4 months since I started at VCE as a Solution Engineer in VCE’s Corporate Engineering branch.  Now that I have my bearings with my new job I figure that my readers might like an update about what I’m doing. I know I’ve been pretty quite on my …

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Nov 11

Veterans Day Flag Retirement Ceremony

Every year for the last 15 years I’ve returned to my home town on Veterans Day to celebrate the Veterans in my home town and everywhere throughout the world. For the last 12 years part of the ceremonies in my home town have included a flag retirement program that I wrote. This is a merging …

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Sep 28

So Long and Thanks For All The Fish

For those who are familiar with the movie Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy you will know that “So Long & Thanks For All the Fish” is the opening song for the movie. This line also has a significant role in the books by Douglas Adams. In the movie the dolphins tried to communicate the impending destruction …

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Sep 09

Redacted Presentation

Here are the slides for my VMworld Community Presentation powered by vBrownbag on VDP. The reason its called redacted is because until VMworld came out I was not able to publicly talk about VDP and so all of the posts on twitter and other social media sites always used redacted as my reference to this new technology. …

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Aug 08

VMworld Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

If you have attend VMworld in the past you have no doubt seen all the contests and opportunities to win this or that if they let you scan your name badge. If you haven’t attended please let the previous statement serve as warning or an invitation for you. [notice]These tips are not guaranteed to help you win. They are …

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Jul 27

Funny ways to explain things… Part II (VMware)

My first blog post on how to explain technical things to non-technical people I talked about how I explain storage concepts surrounding EqualLogic and VMware. (https://www.wondernerd.net/funny-ways-to-explain-things/) In today’s post I’m going to share some on how I explain Virtualization concepts to non-techies. Before we get started I hope this series of posts doesn’t qualify me …

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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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