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About Rick Vanover
Rick Vanover is a software strategy specialist for Veeam Software, based in Columbus, Ohio. Rick has years of IT experience and focuses on virtualization, Windows-based server administration, and system hardware.
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Use vSphere Client to determine number of paths to a datastore
May 14, 2012 6:00am PDT
Ensuring that storage is properly provisioned is a key to a successful vSphere installation. Rickatron shows how to check the active number of paths for a datastore in this blog.
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Finding log events for Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012
May 8, 2012 6:00am PDT
Hyper-V logs events for virtual machines, but the locations and processes may not be intuitive. Rick Vanover shows you where to look for logging info in Windows Server 2012.
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How to enable NFS in Windows Server 2012 beta
April 30, 2012 6:00am PDT
NFS and Windows do not have a good history together, but that is supposed to change with Windows Server 2012. Rickatron shows how to connect an NFS mount to Windows Server 2012 in this post.
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Adding SQL Full-Text Search to an existing SQL Server
April 23, 2012 6:00am PDT
Adding components to an existing SQL Server is a tricky process. In this blog post, Rickatron shows how this is performed so you can proceed confidently.
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VMFS-5 tips for storage provisioning
April 17, 2012 7:00am PDT
Since vSphere 5 introduced VMFS-5, there have been some big improvements in ease of use for storage management. Rick Vanover shares a few tips on the new clustered file system version.
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vSphere 5 Update 1 fixes and features roundup
April 10, 2012 12:00pm PDT
Since vSphere 5 became available last August, some fixes and patches have been released, but Update 1 is the first cumulative update. Rickatron highlights the important features of this release.
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Server Core recommended for Windows Server 8: My six objections
March 28, 2012 6:00am PDT
With Windows Server 8, the recommendation is to use the server core installation. While it sounds like it is time for that approach, Rickatron lays out his six objections to it.
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Use vSphere path properties to prevent drastic errors with storage resources
March 26, 2012 6:00am PDT
Managing storage in vSphere is a critical practice and can have drastic consequences if you make an error. Rick Vanover shows how to ensure which LUN is which for iSCSI targets.
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Moving Hyper-V storage in Hyper-V Manager in Windows Server 8
March 19, 2012 6:00am PDT
The ability to migrate Hyper-V storage is a critical task, and Windows Server 8 makes it a bit easier. In this post, Rickatron will show how to migrate a VM's storage with Hyper-V Manager.
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Five essential apps for your vSphere toolkit
March 14, 2012 7:53am PDT
By itself, vSphere 5 can't fully administer your virtualization environment. vExpert Rick Vanover looks at the extras needed to round out the solution.
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How to create an external virtual switch in Hyper-V on the Windows Server 8 Beta
March 13, 2012 9:00am PDT
For anyone with a virtualization background, Hyper-V networking may not be as intuitive as other technologies. Rickatron shows how to create an external virtual switch in this post.
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Interpreting the host and guest memory usage in the vSphere Client
March 9, 2012 6:00am PST
VMware vSphere has many memory management techniques to efficiently consolidate virtual machines. Rickatron explains two important measures in this blog post.
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Assigning group membership to built-in groups with Group Policy
March 5, 2012 8:15am PST
Assigning a group to the local Administrators, Power Users, or Remote Desktop Users group of computer accounts is made easy with Group Policy. Rick Vanover shows how to set this via a GPO.
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How to shrink a VMDK using VMware Converter
February 27, 2012 6:00am PST
It is easy to make a VMDK bigger, but not so much to shrink it. Rickatron shows how to do this task using VMware Converter in this post.
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Configure a Hyper-V VM for automatic startup
February 20, 2012 9:00am PST
Ensuring all pre-requisite configuration of a virtual environment are online during a startup is critical to everything else working correctly. In this post, Rickatron shows a nifty option for...
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First look at Windows Server 8 Setting Sync in Group Policy
February 13, 2012 7:04am PST
Windows Server 8 brings a lot of new features for the server OS as well as the client experience. Rickatron peeks into one new Group Policy setting for Windows Server 8 in this post.
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Virtualize everything (except in these four scenarios)
February 6, 2012 7:08am PST
Virtualization should be the de facto standard in deploying workloads today. However, there are valid exceptions. Rick Vanover lists four of them in this blog post.
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Storage vMotion virtual disk format options with vSphere 5
January 31, 2012 6:00am PST
New disk options make Storage vMotion tasks give vSphere administrators more control over virtual machine disk formats. Rickatron shows how in this blog post.
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Using vSphere datastore view to see VMs inventoried on disk
January 23, 2012 6:00am PST
vSphere VMs can move around at a moment's notice. In this blog post, Rick Vanover shows how to use a handy vSphere view to see where VMs live on datastores.
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Are operational considerations overlooked in virtualization?
January 16, 2012 6:00am PST
Virtualization is a melding of many technologies and the operational aspect of this new technology may not be given enough attention, as Rick Vanover explains in this blog post.
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