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Interesting little article came out yesterday about something I’ve been wondering for a while but haven’t had the resources to really test.  How cold do you really need to keep that data center?  I spend a good bit of time in different data centers and some are like a meat locker.  I always question the [...]

We’ve been working with the Nexus 5Ks a good bit lately and they are just cool, no two ways about it.  One really nice feature that the Nexus 5000 and 7000 support is vPC, or virtual port-channels.  Take note that support for vPC is new on the 5K and you’ll need at least version 4.1(3)N1(1) [...]

VMware has released version 1.01 of the Data Recovery product.  The release notes are here.  Why the post about a .01 update?  Because this fixes the snapshot issue from 1.0 where sometimes snapshots would hang around after backups were finished, as noted here from Scott Lowe’s blog.  The real problem was that they didn’t show [...]

Intel released the Nehalem server CPUs in March of this year.  The desktop chips based around the Core i7 architecture were released late last year.  So now that the CPUs have been out for a few months we’re starting to see them gain a lot of traction in the data center.  No surprise there.  New [...]

With the release of VMware’s vSphere 4.0 there comes some great features and additions.  One that hasn’t gotten as much attention as others is the Data Recovery feature.  While FT (Fault Tolerance) is cool and flashy, Data Recovery is probably useful to more people, especially in smaller shops.
So, what is Data Recovery?  It’s the new [...]