Rick Vanover

Physical-to-virtual conversions have a few gotchas, but they may be the best option when a proper application, data, and configuration migration isn’t possible.

Rick Vanover lists the short definitions for 50 VMware terms and acronyms you should get to know if you’re venturing into a VMware project.

How a Hyper-V VM boots up will dictate a lot, especially if optical media are interchanged. IT pro Rick Vanover shows a few ways to manage boot order for Hyper-V virtual machines in this post.

Rick Vanover covers three of the major changes coming in vSphere 5, including VMFS 5, the new sub-block algorithm allocation, and support for sizes up to 64 TB.

The recent announcement that Hyper-V supports CentOS Linux guest virtual machines makes Microsoft’s offering even more attractive to organizations of all sizes.

The right chart, image, or diagram can be invaluable in clarifying and conveying IT information. The trick is finding the best tool to illustrate the specific concept or type of data you’re representing.

Provisioning storage to the Windows Server Core can be a challenge. Rick Vanover describes how to configure iSCSI storage on Windows Server Core or Hyper-V Server.

Antivirus for standalone servers is now available through a new Microsoft application suite. Rick Vanover kicks the tires of Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010.

Windows Server admins should establish one authoritative time source for their organization. Rick Vanover explains how to configure the authoritative time source.

Learn how to set time zone information for Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 via Group Policy and the tzutil utility or by adding it to an existing GPO object.

Maintaining command-line finesse is an important objective for Windows Server administrators. Rick Vanover offers some pointers on using the netstat command.

For Windows administrators, a common practice is to have a local username and password for administration when cached credentials are not available. Learn how to change an existing configuration.