Monthly Archive: July 2010

Jul 11

Wrestling with ESXi Client Backups

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Continued from Fun with ESXi and HP issues. Learning Lessons. To recap, I had two new drives and a backplane en route and really wanted to get complete image backups of the VM clients running on this VMware ESXi server before I started swapping drives. I’d tried the vSphere built-in file copy utility, FTP and …

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Jul 08

Gmail: Rich Text Sigs!

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I’m giddy, I really am. So giddy that I just gotta share what I just read: Rich text signatures over at the Official Gmail blog. Finally! I’m not afraid to admit that when I first read that post I actually thought “April Fools” and checked my calendar. I’m so glad that it isn’t April right …

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Jul 08

Fun with ESXi and HP issues. Learning Lessons

Been a heckuva week with some some server and software issues. I’m on the downhill side of it now though so thought I’d share the tale and some lessons learned. I’ve been comfortable with ESXi for a while now, but nothing like things going bad to provide the opportunity to learn so much more! Our …

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