Category: Technology

  • How to Make Your IT Department Great

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

  • New Blog

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

  • EMC World 2013 Blueprints and Recap

    EMC World 2013 Blueprints and Recap

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    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 ?
  • NDMP SnapSure file system creation fails

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    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/]…

  • Reference Architecture Design for 5000 Seat Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

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    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

  • The NEW Internet Explorer

    The NEW Internet Explorer

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    As someone who grew up in the 90’s this is a great commercial for microsoft to introduce the new Internet Explorer. I’m really liking the new look and feel of IE and even though I am a multi browser user I still typically spend most of my time on IE. I think with Microsoft’s lastest…

  • Avamar Backup of a Windows VM fails with the error: Protocol error from VMX

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    Recently on a new install of Avamar version 6.1; I had a VMware Image based backup fail with error 10007. Upon further investigation of the backup job log I noticed that the snapshot failed with: A general system error occured: Protocol error from VMX. This is a good example of two very vague errors on…

  • DNS name does not exist Error Code 0x8007232B – Windows 8 Enterprise

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    I just installed my first GA instance of Microsoft Windows 8 in my lab, and I’m fairly impressed so far. I did however run into an issue where Windows would not activate. When I tried to activate I received the following error: DNS name does not exist Error Code: 0x8007232B It appears that windows was…

  • Best Practices NFS Mount for Data Domain

    Best Practices NFS Mount for Data Domain

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    I was recently setting up a DD160 for a small Oracle instance and came across an issue when trying to mount the data domain via NFS. I tried several variations of the mount command and realized that I needed to be very specific. Since I was simply using a basic mount command the OS was…