Posts tagged vmForge
Log like a paranoid Lumberjack!
Feb 21st
Ok, so maybe I’m a touch paranoid, but I like logging. I also like monitoring, and statistics. I like to know what’s going on, when and how. I don’t mind a little noise, as long as I can quickly assess what’s happening with my servers.
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VMware Certified Professional Addition
Feb 7th
I am very proud to announce today, February 7th, 2012, Ben Tucker passed his VCP test to become the third VMware Certified Professional employed by ipHouse (25% of our employees now hold VCP certificates).
From VMware’s VCP site:
This industry-recognized certification requires completion of a VMware-authorized training course and hands-on experience with VMware technologies. Achieving the VCP certification confirms that you have the education needed to successfully install, deploy, scale and manage VMware vSphere environments, as well as the skills obtained by a minimum of six months experience with VMware infrastructure technologies.
ipHouse employees hold many VMware certifications:
- 3 have VCP certificates: Mike, Nick, and Ben
- 2 have VMware Technical Sales Professional certificates: Ben and Nick
- 7 have VMware Sales Professional certificates: Aileen, Alex, Andrew, Ben, Dan, Mike, and Nick
This means that ~60% of ipHouse employees are certified in VMware products with 3 employees holding multiple certifications.
What does this mean to you?
ipHouse employees can help design a virtualization solution for your business whether it is a single server web site to a multi-server Microsoft Remote Desktop Services solution and everything in between. Look at our vmForge offerings and give us a call at 612-337-6320 and let us help you.
Colo to Virtual Data Center Success – January, 2012
Feb 7th
Back in October, 2011, I had posted an article titled ‘Colocation is so 1990s…‘ discussing why I feel colocation is going the way of the dodo for most SMB business needs, and really, it isn’t as efficient as using a virtual data center anyway.
In the middle of January I helped someone move away from colocation into our vmForge VDC service offering.
Think in the cloud but without the variable monthly billing or non-persistent storage.
“virtual data center” has a nice ring to it doesn’t it?
The Value and Cost of Persistent Data
Jan 27th
I’ve been cleaning out my house recently. There’s a lot of crud that’s just been lying around, collected through years. My wife describes me as a level 2 hoarder; she says that I would be a shoe-in for that A&E show. Going through many, many boxes that I’ve collected in the basement, I pick through each cord and think “I might need that.” I won’t need it though, so with a small mental push, I put it in the trash bag. Persistent data is a lot like that. A lot of companies have, either through policy or inertia, tons of useless information sitting on disks, or tapes, or CDs, that may be useful one day, but probably will not ever be.
Debugging IPSec VPNs in FortiGate
Jan 20th
Debugging IPSec VPNs in FortiGate
Debugging what is going wrong with a VPN setup is difficult. The IKE protocol is “chatty”, and negotiates back and forth between the two ends for several rounds. The GUI offers not much help, it is either UP or Down. Most of the real debugging happens inside the CLI.
One problem in particular that has always bugged me is that you need access to the end machines involved to initiate traffic across the link. The network admin typically doesn’t have direct access on the computers on either side of the VPN in order to initiate that traffic. I’ll show you a method that can be used to initiate traffic from that network as well.
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