• Unable to find this VDP in the vCenter inventory

    A quick troubleshooting blog… I recently came across this error when deploying the VMware VDP appliance: “Unable to find this VDP in the vCenter inventory” I took a look a look at the following log file on the VDP appliance: /opt/vmware/var/log/vami/vami-ovf.log The following entries were present: [info] [process id: 4062] Hostname property is not present,…

  • Google Data Center

    Google’s Data Center

    I’ve been in several of the largest and most secure data centers in the United States and it just occurred to me that as often as I use Google, I have never seen any of their data centers. I thought it would be fun to do some quick research and post about what I find…

  • Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur Of The Year is the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs. The unique award recognizes the significant contributions of entrepreneurs who inspire others with their vision, leadership and achievement. I made a cameo in the video: http://www.roundtower.com/awarded-ernst-and-young-entrepreneur-of-the-year-2013/ Official link to EY.com Press Release: http://www.ey.com/US/en/Newsroom/News-releases/Ernst-and-Young-announces-Entrepreneur-Of-The-Year-2013-Award-winners-in-South-Central-Ohio-and-Kentucky  

  • Google’s CIO Talks about what differentiates a good IT department from a great one.

  • New Blog

    I’m moving from my old domain (www.buraguy.com) into this shiny new domain. Pardon the dust 😉

  • EMC Software Defined Storage EMCBLUEPRINTS

    I’ll be typing up all of my notes from EMC World later today but for now here is a nice visual look back on the EMC Blueprints incase you missed anything. Softwared-Defined Storage In the software-defined data center of tomorrow, horizontal infrastructure management – not vertical – is the way of the future. Open, horizontal…

  • EMC and PSY Gangnam Style ?

    LOL

  • I was setting up an NDMP accelerator node today to back up a new VNX and came across this error message when trying to backup a test volume for the first time: Errors and Exceptions 2013-02-13 11:25:19 avndmp Error : [snapup-/NDMP_Test] NDMP: SnapSure file system creation fails (Log #2) 2013-02-13 11:25:19 avndmp Error : [ndmp2avtar-/NDMP_Test/]…

  • Great Citrix XenDesktop, Cisco UCS, and EMC VNX solution overview for deploying 5000 virtual desktops. Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 Feature Pack Built on Cisco Unified ComputingSystem and EMX VNX LINK: Reference Architecture-Based Design for 5000 Seat Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Cisco Unified Computing System, Nexus 5500, Nexus 1000V, EMC VNX7500, and VMware ESXi 5