Category: Technology

  • The New #EMC #Networker

    The New #EMC #Networker

    Today EMC is announcing the new Networker 8 via a webcast, so I decided that I will be blogging about it as I watch it so I’ll be posting some highlights and new features as I go ! It is Networker’s 22nd Anniversary and for the announcement EMC has done a racing themed webcast that…

  • The statement BACKUP LOG is not allowed while the recovery model is SIMPLE

    When backing up SQL databases using the incremental option the backup job fails with “The statement BACKUP LOG is not allowed while the recovery model is SIMPLE” This is because the recovery model of the database being backed up is currently set to “Simple”. To resolve this error you must either change the database backup…

  • Avamar 6.1 Unified Proxy Appliance for VMware

    Avamar 6.1 Unified Proxy Appliance for VMware

    I’m going back over some of the new differences in Avamar 6.1 and am very impressed with the enhancements that Avamar now has with VMware image based backups. Before version 6.1 you needed a seperate image proxy for Linux and a seperate proxy for Windows, now with the new proxy design both Operating Systems have…

  • Retractable buttons on a flatscreen ?

    Retractable buttons on a flatscreen ?

    I just got done checking out the video below and I am very impressed. If this works well it will be a game changer. I remember living off of my Blackberry Curve and typing faster on that mini keyboard than I could on my laptop, and then purchasing an iPhone 3G. I had the hardest…

  • EMC ICSEA Isilon Certified

    EMC ICSEA Isilon Certified

    Posting up the next certification as I’m now completed with 2 of 3 of my goal for the month. Didnt seem like there was too much difference on the training between the ICSEA and the ICSA, but I’m going to assume the technical certifications will be much different. I’m not one to hang up physical…

  • Isilon Certified Sales Associate

    Isilon Certified Sales Associate

    Well its official, I’ve completed step 1 of 3 in my Isilon certification adventure. So I’m going to hang this up on my blog wall and I’ll be making room for the next couple here shortly.

  • Isilon Training

    I’m going through Isilon certification courses today as well as joining a training class this morning. Starting to take a plunge into big data best practices. I’m also overhauling this website so please excuse the dust 😉

  • Warning 6698 VSS exception code 0x800706be thrown freezing volumes – The remote procedure call failed

    When you try to create shadow copies on large volumes that have a small cluster size (less than 4 kilobytes), or if you take snapshots of several very large volumes at the same time, the VSS software provider may use a larger paged pool memory allocation during the shadow copy creation than is required. If…

  • 1 Billion iops

    1 Billion iops

    Fusion IO has achieved One Billion iops !!!  

  • VMworld 2011 Avamar vCloud Protector