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I wanted to let you folks know that Veeam has introduced the NEW Veeam Backup Management Suite 6.5.  This new version allows for even more proficient data protection and virtualization management. Administrators can now get advanced monitoring for Veeam backup infrastructure, including: Monitoring the age and size of snapshots Alerting you when guest disks used for backup repositories are getting full …

My vShield App Firewall Use Case The scenario for why I wanted to try and use the vShield App Firewall was pretty basic and is probably similar for most folks.  Everything in the “Lab” space is virtual except for some of the storage devices and all of the personal devices. …

My Session At the 2013 NEVMUG Winter Warmer Well it is almost that time of year again for the NEVMUG Winter Warmer in Foxboro, MA!  The date has been set this event of January 17th, 2013 and as always we hope our Patriots are there practicing for the playoffs!  This is never …

One of the cool things I get to do is blog about any news related to everything VMware.  Yes recently I have been the vCloud guy, and now Nicira dude, but I also follow some of the other spaces VMware is in.  Specifically Socialcast since we use it a lot …

Duncan Epping and I were both asked by Simon Mijolovic a colleague here at VMware to help promote some new useful KB articles.  Since the release of vSphere 5.0 and 5.1 Simon has been working with many others on documenting the processes to update and use proper signed CA certificates within your vSphere environment.  I …

Okay I know the title sounds a little bit like, “Why on earth would you need to do that?”.  Well as with everything this odd situation happened to me as I was rebuilding a lab kit in the Cambridge office.  Here is the situation that resulted in the need to …