Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

itgroove is a business technology solutions provider. We have lots of tools and technology available that can be used to solve any number of business issues. And we have the knowledge and experience to map the solutions out for you, as well as the skills to implement the needed hardware, software and procedures. You have …

itgroove Recommendations from the Field The following are recommendations from itgroove for Server (virtual or physical plant) Best Practices. Customers may not always listen or have the budget, but it won’t stop us from trying to protect them… Redundant Power Supplies – protect yourself against a single point of failure UPS – (Uninterruptable Power Supply) …

We spent a little time this week putting together a list of what we believe are the benefits customers get, working with itgroove. You’ll notice we didn’t put things like we’re wicked smart” or “we’re great haxors”. We tried to compile a list of value we provide to a customer, based on our approach to …

By Robert Dick today…   I had real fun with a DELL R300 server after a motherboard replacement.  Learned bunches but first a little background.     What originally went wrong?     The Dell R300 lost” the MAC addresses on the twin onboard NIC’s and we couldn’t get them back.  ESXi lost its networking …

I guess it’s been out a few weeks now, but tonight I was introduced to WYSE PocketCloud for the iPhone. At the moment (sale?) is it a $20 app (looks to be $30 in October) and for that price, I had to have it and try it. So, I did. And gosh darned it, it …

We ran into this in our office and we have a workaround.   Issue:   After upgrading from Vista to Windows 7, our VMware Workstation (and VMware Player) installs no longer functioned properly. When we would go to start our virtual machines, we would get The VMware Authorization Service is not running” and when attempting …

Thanks to Robert from our office for this visual walkthrough of the ESX4 patching process, when you don’t have Virtual Center. ESXi 4 hosts can be patched using the GUI tool VMHostUpdate. ESX4 hosts, on the other hand, have to be patched manually if there is no vCenter involved in managing the host. There are …

I’m so happy. I’m running the Windows 7 Release Candidate solely on my production machine and I must say, besides the odd IE8 crash (which happens on any windows machine it seems, though one would have hoped IE would have matured more with IE8) and some strange graphics card ‘flashing’, my experience has been very …

If you have played with VMWare ESXi for a while and tried to monitor the underlying hardware with any degree of success (SNMP), give it up.  Although the future looks a little brighter with HP providing some functionality with ‘their’ version of ESXi, the reality for us, as a business, when recommending VMWare virtualization to …