Virtual Machines
Adding Exchange mailboxes from a text file by way of awk
Mar 9th
When you get a virtual server or a vmForge Virtual Data Center from us, you can choose to manage it yourself or have us take care of it. If you choose ipHouse management on a Windows virtual machine, I will probably be involved with your server management. Here is a recent task related to that role.
I hope others find it helpful.
I was adding a list of users to an Exchange 2010 server. There is a quick way and a slow way to do that. The quick way and slow way trade places when the list grows to a certain size. The quick way is to open Exchange Management Console, expand Recipient Configuration, and click New Mailbox. Type in the proper values and click next a few times, then click Finish.
The slow way is to create the PowerShell commands to add the mailboxes from a text file containing all the user data and paste it into PowerShell. It is also the quick way, if you have enough users to add.
Virtual servers on physical servers? Isn’t that redundant?
Mar 6th
I have recently been speaking with a number of customers that express the concern about virtual server redundancy as compared to physical hardware. What an apt opportunity to write a blog post about the difference in redundancies in physical vs virtual servers!
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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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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.
