This week's Tech Field Day roundtable discussion focuses on the presentation given by HP at our Boston event. This presentation included a strategic overview from Tom Joyce, HP's new VP of StorageWorks Marketing, Milan Shetti Sr...
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Packet Pushers — Lab Scenario 1 — The First Podcast
Welcome to PacketPushers and our first podcast. Although this was meant to be a practice run, we figure we would just publish it anyway and do it again next.
Using ESXTOP With VMware ESXi
Just a quick post about using ESXTOP with VMware ESXi. Obviously in ESXi there is no Service Console so we have to use the vMA (vSphere Management Assistant) to help us.
CradlePoint Interview and Personal Hotspot Giveaway
We love our Cradlepoint PHS300, so we were pleased to come across the company at the Interop trade show in Las Vegas this week. Sensing our enthusiasm for their product, CradlePoint was happy to donate a PHS300 for us to give to...
Unable to cast object of type ‘LogicalUnitPolicy’ to type ‘FixedLogicalUnitPolicy’
When trying to change the Preferred Path on Storage Adapter I was greeted with the following Error message: Unable to cast object of type ‘LogicalUnitPolicy’ to type ‘FixedLogicalUnitPolicy’
FCoE Symbolism
Visitors to the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) booth at Storage Networking World in Orlando were greeted by a strange symbol, but what is the symbol exactly? I was amused to get some puzzled looks (and no correct...
My take on the stack wars
As some of you might have read, the stack wars have started. One of the bigger coalitions announced in November 2009 was that between VMware, Cisco and EMC, aptly named VCE. Hitachi Data Systems announced something similar and...
Taking the Proverbial
What is the point of an 'IT Project'? Is it to deliver infrastructure? Is it to deliver applications? Or is it to deliver a service to the business? Actually, most 'IT projects' shouldn't be called 'IT projects'; perhaps they...
The object has already been deleted or has not been completely created
When trying to power on an old VM I was greeted with this message: The object has already been deleted or has not been completely created
Podcast 4: Virtual Field Day Nimbus Roundtable
This week's virtual Tech Field Day roundtable discussion focuses on Nimbus Data Systems. Tom Isakovich, CEO of Nimbus, gave the Tech Field Day Delegates a sneak peek at their new S-class solid state iSCSI storage array.