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• Want to Move? Your Easy Out for VMware: Nutanix Move 3.3

  By Marcus Barton on October 3, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Nutanix just released Move 3.3, a tool that easily lets administrators plan, schedule and migrates VMs from other hypervisors (VMware, Hyper-V and, yes, even AWS) over to Nutanix AHV. Many infrastructure teams are running a platform that they’re not happy… Read More ›

• Monday Funny – Fixing Bugs in Production

  By Marcus Barton on November 5, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

• How are you protected from Cyber Attacks?

  By Marcus Barton on April 13, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

• Checking the List and Counting it Twice – Dedupe and Physical Capacity Measurement (PCM/PCR)

  By Marcus Barton on January 18, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  I’ve gotten lots of questions on the “if that set of files were the only files on the Data Domain system” statement from my last post, Not The Droids You Were Looking For, where I went over Physical Capacity Measurement. … Read More ›

• Not the Droids (Capacity) You Were Looking For

  By Marcus Barton on January 3, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  How is it possible that my report is showing that I have more data stored than what is physically available??  This was a question prompted by one of my customers.  But first, a little background. For those of you that… Read More ›

• Oldie but a Goodie, Forcing Avamar Backups to Data Domain

  By Marcus Barton on September 11, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Avamar and Data Domain integration have been around a while and is a tried-and-true solution that’s been put through its paces and is still in the lead of backup solutions (according to Gartner).  As virtual editions of both products are… Read More ›

• Unusual Updates

  By Marcus Barton on June 14, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Welcome to Patch Tuesday boys and girls. Just wanted to bring to your attention that Microsoft released a patch for Windows XP and Vista today along with other updates. What makes it so highly unusual is that both of these… Read More ›

• That’s Not My DNS Server

  By Marcus Barton on April 20, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Was in the process of helping a customer install an Avamar NDMP Accelerator node (Gen4T) and ran into a small DNS issue. As part of the initial configuration, we went into the YaST Linux configuration page to set IP addressing,… Read More ›

• Spinning up DDVE with Static IP

  By Marcus Barton on April 10, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Today our team was working as a group on a conference call, spinning up a lab with Data Domain Virtual Edition (DDVE) and Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE) when we ran into a little snag. We were using a shared lab… Read More ›

• Upgrade Your Stuff!

  By Marcus Barton on April 4, 2017 • ( 0 )

  I come across customers daily that are running some really old Microsoft operating systems and servers out there. Not only is it hard for us, here at Dell EMC, to have our products support these older operating systems, but it’s… Read More ›