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In today’s post, Eric Siebert discusses I/O storage bottlenecks, perhaps the most vulnerable part of a VM in terms of potential performance loss. Eric demonstrates how to use vCenter Server and exstop to troubleshoot and solve any I/O bottlenecks but also suggests looking at other 3rd party options such as Virtualization Manager and Storage Manager.

One of the most common reasons computers fail is because of faulty or failed memory and Windows does a good job alerting you after the memory has failed. It is better to find failing memory before it has crippled your machine though. In this post, Jeff Hicks explains how to use the Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool to diagnose memory issues.

In this post, Greg Stuart challenges you to protect your data in 2012. Greg provides an easy 3 step guide to protecting your data both from intruders and from hardware failure by putting your data in the cloud and securing it properly.

In today’s post, Sean Wilkins discusses OSPF redistribution and briefly covers some issues that one must keep in mind when configuring redistribution within OSPF. With these things in mind, you can go a long way towards ensuring that your network will continue to run smoothly and correctly when utilizing OSPF redistribution.

In today’s post, Michael Simmons shows how simple it is to change user’s local and domain passwords using PowerShell with WMI and .NET. This allows quick flexible changes to user accounts with script that can be reused whenever the need arises.

In this video post from TrainSignal, Cisco UCS expert Jason Nash will show you the required steps to creating a Service Profile Template in your Cisco Unified Computing System. Service Profile Templates can make it easy for you to provision many servers because it will allow you to quickly create multiple service profiles having the same basic parameters like say the number of vNICs and vHBAs.

In the third installment of Peter De Tender’s series on Installing Service Mangager 2012 Beta, Peter explains how to set up the data warehouse server. Microsoft best practices state that this should be installed on a separate machine so Peter walks you through, step-by-step, installing the data warehouse manager on a separate VM.

In today’s post, Jeff Hicks discusses SetX.EXE which allows IT pro’s to quickly and efficiently create their own environmental variables. SetX makes the task of adding custom environmental variables to support internal applications or automated processes very easy, especially when this needs to be done on remote machines.

Sean Wilkins continues his discussion on OSPF Area Troubleshooting. In today’s post, Sean reviews link state advertisement (LSA) types and also reviews the different stubby areas and what they allow and deny. From there, Sean dives into common stubby area problems and how they can be resolved.

In this post, Michael Simmons explains FSMO Roles in Active Directory 2008. Michael covers all 5 roles: Schema Master, Domain Naming Master, Infrastructure Master, Relative ID Master and Primary Domain Controller Emulator. Together, these FSMO Roles help prevent conflicts when making changes within the traditional multi-master model.

Lisa Szpunar of TrainSignal explains basic social engineering tactics in this video lesson. Lisa eloquently explains the different techniques used to steal personal information and simple ways companies and individuals can combat these attacks.

In Part 2 of Peter De Tender’s series on System Center Service Manager 2012 beta, Peter walks through the installation processes. Peter provides an excellent walkthrough with screen shots and instructions.