Rick Vanover is an IT Infrastructure Manager for Alliance Data in Columbus, Ohio. Rick's IT certifications include VMware VCP, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 MCITP, Windows Server 2003 MCSA and others.
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Previous experiences included working for Dematic Corp (formerly Siemens L&A, Siemens Dematic, Rapistan)in Grand Rapids, MI in various capacities deploying custom software solutions to the material handling industry using a mix of current hardware and software products. You can reach Rick at b4real@usa.net. Follow rick on Twitter at @RickVanover
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.
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.
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.
Cloud storage is now on your Android phone. In this gallery, IT pro Rick Vanover walks you through the file exchange solution called ShareFile, which leverages cloud storage.
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.
Ethernet-based storage provisioning is one of the areas that may not get much coverage related to the IPv6 transition; but it is fully supported. Virtualization expert Rick Vanover shows how to configure ESXi to communicate to an iSCSI target over IPv6.
