Within the past several weeks we’ve witnessed an unusually high number of outages that have impacted our clients in WNC. Some have been weather related and others due to system issues, but the end result is that businesses can’t reach their necessary...
In my first post on showing the client IP addresses through a Barracuda ADC load balancer, I showed how to get Direct Server Return to work for clients on the same network by adding loopback interfaces on the back-end servers. In this post I will discuss a problem...
In order to see the client origination IP address on the real back-end servers when a Barracuda ADC load balancer is used there are two options. The first is to use layer 4 load balancing on the service type. The other option is to use a layer 7 proxy service and...
Tips on tuning VMware ESXi for EqualLogic SANs. Install Dell MEM Download from here: https://eqlsupport.dell.com/support/download.aspx?id=1484 Important: Unzip the package and inside the package is another zip file. That’s the file that should be uploaded to a...
To get the best performance out of VMware’s iSCSI initiator it’s a good idea to enable jumbo frames on the ESX hosts. First configure a new vSwitch dedicated to the iSCSI network and if you’re doing this in the GUI delete the default port group that...
With Windows 7 public availability around the corner, ADNS will be making the move this Friday. We will report our experiences on this blog with all aspects from upgrades (Vista only) and new installations. Majority of our workstations are Dell Vostro 400s, so we...
