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The following is a rehash of an internal blog post I did for the office.  ESXi allows for different types of datastore connections and the following is the “quick and dirty” on those connections.  Please do NOT consider this the be all and end all regarding ESXi and datastores, it is more like a “Coles …

I’ve been dealing with backup questions over the last little while and it seems that a lot of SMB operations have a lot of confusion about what constitutes a backup system.  I guess in very simple terms, a backup system is a aggregation of tools and devices that produce some sort of “copy” of your …

One bad thing about IT is that we love our lettered acronyms for all things tech – IT, AD, DC, NAS, SAN, iSCSI, FCoE, SATA, SAS – it goes on and on and on.  We literally swim in an alphabet soup of acronyms which can be confusing enough for us techies and totally incomprehensible to …

We’ve had a few new customers ask this question lately and the answer really is, “It depends”. In most cases we like to see a proper server go in, usually loaded with SBS, because we like the control provided by having a proper Windows domain along with a properly configured server (or servers, as the …