Hello everyone, I am writing this during a break in my move to a new home (update: now doing this sitting in my car outside my new house, finishing it off at home via my iPhone shared Internet). This new house is one I am very exited to live in as it has almost no … Continue reading Newsletter: March 20, 2021
Tag: NUC
Newsletter: December 5, 2020
Hello all, I hope everyone is well, things are good here. Our province is out of control with COVID-19 but my wife and I are staying home and out of danger. My lab is is in good shape now - thanks to Pete and Sean, but I need to wait to be back in vExpert … Continue reading Newsletter: December 5, 2020
Newsletter: August 8, 2020
Hello all, This was my first week of not working, and it was harder than it sounds. Trying to learn Swift as I have some cool ideas for apps but that has been harder than it sounds. I have not yet found a good plan for learning Swift. But I am getting used to not … Continue reading Newsletter: August 8, 2020
Newsletter: July 6, 2019
Hello all, First, I have to apologize for no newsletter last weekend. It was a busy weekend in a fascinating place (Waterton) and I did not have much wireless so things did not get done. But that means you get some extra material this week! I did a couple of VAO articles recently - one … Continue reading Newsletter: July 6, 2019
Newsletter: November 19, 2016
Hello all, I had a good week - particularly since I was able to talk with customers about Veeam. I even got to do a session at a vForum - in Houston - and it was pretty fun too. It was good to talk with people about Veeam 9.5 as it is a big release … Continue reading Newsletter: November 19, 2016
Home Lab Decision Making – NUC and Supermicro
Hi all, I was talking with one of my co-workers on this. If you need a home lab, and don't have one, what do you do? There are many possibilities, but to keep this simple we talked about physical gear in your house. It boiled down to this: NUC - cheaper, and without a lot … Continue reading Home Lab Decision Making – NUC and Supermicro
Newsletter: August 6, 2016
Hi all, I hope everyone has had a great week? Mine was pretty good - but we have some in-laws in the house so it made things a little different! I did an interesting article about how you can use Virtual Labs as part of your backup regime. I think it is most excellent and … Continue reading Newsletter: August 6, 2016
Setting up my NUC vSphere host
I have decided to grow my lab a bit. I think it will help for my work, and let me do more on my own. So I increased memory on each of my Dell hosts to 40 GB, as that was cheap and easy and of course it was the resource I needed most and … Continue reading Setting up my NUC vSphere host
Newsletter: July 1, 2016
Hi all, First thing is Happy Canada Day to everyone. Not quite a birthday but when Canada become more Canada (or Dominion of Canada in those days). As well, on the subject of birthdays, Thursday was the 10th birthday for Veeam which is pretty cool - and they were added to the Gartners Leaders Magic … Continue reading Newsletter: July 1, 2016
Newsletter: June 25, 2016
Hello all, I hope all is well with everyone today? Things are good here. A good week in the lab and helping this cool new Veeam product grow. I also had to replace batteries in two UPS's - thanks goodness I can easily use third party batteries for APC UPS. I mentioned last week I … Continue reading Newsletter: June 25, 2016
