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Onboard SAN… Issues.
A client of mine is a small business with a couple of physical servers and a couple of virtualization hosts. One of the physical servers, a Lenovo ThinkServer, has been acting as a file server, so it has really been very under-used. It is a good server that has never been used to its potential…
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Private Posts
I want to thank all of you who reached out to me this morning when you could not get into my ‘private’ article. I wanted to share something that I had written (that believe it or not is far too incendiary to post on this site) with an old army buddy, so I pass-word protected…
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Keep Up: How to configure SCOM to monitor the running state of services and restart them when they stop
Windows runs on services. Don’t believe me? Open your Services console and count just how many are running at any given time. Of course, some of them are more important than others… especially when you are talking about servers that are critical to your organization. A new customer recently called me for a DEAR Call…
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Way Way Back!
There is a nifty tool on the Internet called the Wayback Machine. It lets you see what websites looked like a long time ago. My blog (garvis.ca, as well as virtualizationczar.com) evolved from mitchgarvis.com, which came about when I decided to take my blog off mitpro.ca. However before any of those there was e-mitch.com, and…
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2015: My New Year’s Resolutions
I can honestly say that I don’t think I have ever made New Year’s Resolutions… at least, I have never written them down. At the end of 2014, my annus horribilus, I am looking forward to a spectacular 2015. Yesterday afternoon – December 30th – I was looking at my dashboard on www.asana.com – a…
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Converting Fixed Size VHDs to Dynamic Sized VHDs
I was called in to help a company recently with a small Hyper-V environment. They created a 2TB VHD file (they had good reasons for not using .vhdx files, but the steps in this article will work for both versions). They realized that they had unnecessarily created the drive as a 2TB Fixed Size disk…
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End Of Days 2003: The End is Nigh!
In a couple of days we will be saying goodbye to 2014 and ringing in the New Year 2015. Simple math should show you that if you are still running Windows Server 2003, it is long since time to upgrade. However here’s more: When I was a Microsoft MVP, and then when I was a…
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Sharing Passwords
This is NOT an article about my mother. She just happens to be the person at the other end of this conversation, but it could have been any house guest. My mother has been staying with me for the past few days. It is the first time she has stayed with me, and it has…
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A VMware Gripe
Okay, I can’t delete a file. Any Level 1 systems administrator would look at this message and say: ‘Okay, VMware is not allowing me to delete an ISO file. Very likely the ISO file is connected to a virtual machine.’ Ummm… but WHICH virtual machine is it? Gee thanks, vCenter, I have scores of VMs……
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2014: No growth, but no shrinkage.
I want to thank you all, the great readers of The World According to Mitch. 2013 was a year of huge growth for my blog. I spent the first few months with Microsoft, and so I was cross-posting all of my blogs from there to here (and vice-versa). The last four months of the year…
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Offline File Cache Nightmares Resolved
Off-line files are a wonderful thing. The fact that my users can synchronize the files from a central server (where they are backed up) to their laptop is great. But what happens when things get out of hand? In theory, users can save a lot more onto a file server than they can their local…
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Folder Redirection: Where’d these warnings come from?
Congratulations. You have decided to implement a Folder Redirection policy on your domain. There are real advantages to this, not the least of which is that all of your users’ profile folders will get backed up centrally… and that when they change computers their files and settings are just there. You have created a Group…
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Ending Snow Days? Sorry kids, but it SHOULD happen soon.
Originally posted on The World According to Mitch: This month I had lunch with Sharon Bennett, a veteran of the IT industry and blogger.? We discussed a number of topics relating to both technology and community… I asked her a ton of questions, and the one that got me the most intriguing answer was: ‘What…
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