David Davis

I’m sure you would agree that in our current economy, it’s important to continue to find ways to improve IT efficency and control costs. For organizations using VMware Virtual Servers, our Petri knowledgebase sponsor Idealstor has just released a new product that can help achieve these goals. It is called iBac Virtual Infrastructure Proxy (iBac…

The use of a dynamic routing protocol on a company’s WAN and LAN is standard practice today. Whether you use OSPF or EIGRP to automatically determine the path that your traffic takes, at some point, for some reason, you may want to direct that traffic for yourself. In this article, we will learn what Policy-based…

While using Dynamic routing protocols, at some point, you will want to filter the routes that are sent out from one router to another OR filter routes that are received into your router. One of the easiest ways to do this is to use a distribute-list. Let’s find out how… What is a Distribute-List? First…

The VKernel Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer is a powerful and crucial third-party addition to any VMware Infrastructure suite or VMware ESX Server. This virtual appliance that runs in a VMware ESX Server can immediately monitor the performance and capacity of your VMware Infrastructure. It provides trending so that you know what part of your capacity (CPU,…

Recently, while using VCB in my production environment, I came across an issue with VCB & Windows. The issue is really two-fold. First, that VCB does not support multiple paths across a Fibre Channel (FC) SAN. Second, that Windows dynamically maps disk numbering and partitions when it boots. What this means to you is that…

The OSPF dynamic routing protocol is probably the most popular LAN routing protocol today. OSPF can scale to the largest LANs but can also start out small. While OSPF can be complex to configure, its basic configuration isn’t difficult. Let’s learn how to configure OSPF in the Cisco IOS. What do you need to know…

The OSPF dynamic routing protocol is probably the most popular LAN routing protocol today. OSPF can scale to the largest LANs but can also start out small. While OSPF can be complex to configure, its basic configuration isn’t difficult. Let’s learn how to configure OSPF in the Cisco IOS. What do you need to know…

Do you need to configure dynamic routing protocol for you network? EIGRP may be an excellent choice. It is a full-featured routing protocol that can grow as your network grows. Let’s learn how to configure EIGRP in the Cisco IOS. What do you need to know about EIGRP? Before you configure EIGRP, there are some…

David Davis shows us how to quickly access the console on Cisco routers and switches and how to configure them as terminal servers.

VMware ESX Server 3i is a very powerful and free Enterprise virtualization platform. I covered all the basics of it, how it is different, and why you want it in our previous article “What is VMware ESX Server 3i?” Now, let me show you how easy it is to download and install VMware ESX Server…