Archive for 'downtime'

The Importance of SAN Maintenance

Note: This is a guest post provided to us by an extremely smart gentleman, with whom I’ve worked closely with in the past. At this time however, homeboy prefers to remain anonymous.

I get questions like this all the time:
"I’m trying to help educate my management on the importance of having the right microcode in place [...]

Upgrades!

 

Sometime late this evening, likely around Midnight CST, I’ll be taking down professionalvmware.com for some needed upgrades. (I’ll also be making a backup of the site (something I should have done a while ago)).
I don’t figure the upgrades will take all that long, but incase we’re not back by the time you open your [...]

Sunday Turtle Blogging!

I have it on good word that as of Wednesday last week the VMware turtles have gone on winter vacation to their condo in the Amazon Rain Forest. They’ll be back after the cold snap ends.

Sorry.

Sorry, that I chose a budget host before starting down this road. The budget host, doing what budget hosts do, had a badly handled failure. This in turn caused the site to be down since yesterday at 2p PST.We’re back up for now… but we’ll see.
Here is a link to their issue page: Spacey Filer [...]