What do you do when one of your most critical applications isn’t supported by your backup vendor? Do you find a new backup vendor, change applications, figure out a different solution, or cry sile...
Have you ever thought you found a bug in a software product? In my case, I was almost certain I had found one but learned the problem was me. I want to share a story from this past week that help...
With the GA of vSAN 6.6 in late April, I was asked to give a talk at the DFW Mango Meetup back in May about all the new features in this release. The power actually went out where we were presenti...
A few weeks ago I was tasked with installing SuiteCRM for a proof of concept. Since the environment was primarily Windows, we went with a brand new Server 2012 R2 VM that was fully patched (enviro...
Originally posted on MangoLassi May 5, 2017 All I did was upgrade vCenter 6.0U3 to 6.5a, and things went horribly wrong. Before getting into the details, let me take you back to where our story b...
Originally posted on MangoLassi April 26, 2017 Imagine having just racked 4 new Dell PowerEdge R730 servers. The network and power cables are all in place, and the disks are in the proper slots. ...
Originally posted on MangoLassi April 17, 2017 Just yesterday, VMware released a patch to vCenter that enables functionality supporting vSAN 6.6. This patch is build 5310538 and version 6.5.0d of...
Originally posted on MangoLassi February 15, 2017 It was a normal day like any other. I was helping a user with some MS Office related issues via TeamViewer and was giving her laptop a tune up to...
Originally posted on MangoLassi August 8, 2016 The Problem When working in SMB IT, budgets can be tight. You want to meet the needs of the business but also don’t want to overspend. Taking that ...
Originally posted on MangoLassi August 8, 2016 It was mid-day on a normal Wednesday when I started getting alerts that devices have fallen offline at one of our locations. Seconds later the alert...