Centralizing Management Tools
Over the pass few months, I have been working on centralizing our management tools from Helpdesk Ticketing system, change management, application monitor, windows patching and remote desktop support and finding products that will work together. We decided to go the ManageEngine solution using at the moment SelfDesk Plus, Operation Manager, and Desktop Central. Here is the break down of why we decide to go down this path. Lets start with Desktop Central, it is used for our rem
Nutanix vs. Cisco UCS Hyperflex
Over the past month, I have been looking at and getting some hands on experience in the online demo environment with Nutanix and UCS Hyperflex and trying to put these environments up side by side to see they would do in my environment. Patching: Nutanix with their hypervisor is a lot more user friendly than use the VMWare overly. I do like the one click upgrade feature that Nutanix uses to upgrade their nodes and Prism platform. It is much easier than UCS where you have to up
VMware Deployment of a life time
Soooooo for the last week I have been on a deployment to my companies home office to clean up the data center and upgrade the environment from old Dell servers that either had its own local storage or connected via iSCSI to a single storage array to a beautiful UCS Blade chassis and EMC SAN array and try to complete the complete upgrade within 4 days. I wonder what could have went wrong. Here are some do's and dont's to watch for. DO: Before scheduling plans to travel to anot
