Author: greg.porter

My friend and co-worker Debu (Debashish Basak) is a amateur photographer.  He has an exhibit of his works at Keeble & Shuchat Photography in Palo Alto…    

Our next meeting is Friday, March 8th, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM at Veterans Memorial Building Veterans Hall – Top Floor, 801 Grand Avenue, San Luis Obispo, CA 93403. This meeting is about: VMUG News and Announcements VDI… Continue Reading →

The Dec 2012 SLO VMUG was a big success! Scott Smith presents at SLO VMUG, Dec 2012 We got started about 10, Scott Smith, local VMUG leader started off with a brief overview of recent VMUG activities.

Our next meeting is Friday, December 7th, 2012 from 10:15 AM to 2:30 PM at San Luis Obispo City-County Library,  Library Community Room, 995 Palm Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. We’re basically going to talk about backup and recovery. … Continue Reading →

  Eager readers want to know if EqualLogic array firmware upgrades are non-disruptive, so we tested it in our mighty remote environment! Bottom line:  The firmware update process halts I/Os during cut-over from one controller to the other.  This takes… Continue Reading →

We’ve been building a virtualized PCI environment, and we’ve adopted an official PCI work uniform to wear when doing PCI tasks….

The National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center (NERRTC) of the Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) (a member of The Texas A&M University System) has a suite of free cybersecurity classes available online.  Some are for new-comers to cybersecurity, others… Continue Reading →

The next meeting is Wednesday, April 30th, 2012 from 10 AM to 1:30 PM at San Luis Obispo City-County Library,  Library Community Room, 995 Palm Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. Hang Long from VMware will discuss VMware View Best Practices,… Continue Reading →

I’ve been running XenServer 5.X at home for a test lab for a couple of years.  It’s been stable and easy to use.  Upgrading to XenServer 6.0 has been on my to-do list, and I finally got around to it… Continue Reading →

I recently attended VMware vSphere: What’s New [V5.0] class from VMware.  Normally I prefer to go to instructor led training.  This time, because of tight budgets and schedules, I elected to attend a Live Online class.  It wasn’t bad!  Read… Continue Reading →