Category Archives: Windows Home Server

ESXi 5.1: Using Raw Device Mappings (RDM) on an HP Microserver

Posted on October 11, 2012 by tino

Having some spare time on my hands I decided to investigate the performance differences between presenting local storage as a Raw Device Mapping (RDM) and as a VMFS formatted datastore on my testbed server at home.  The server and disk … Continue reading →

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Quite Possibly The Perfect SOHO Backup Solution

Posted on November 16, 2011 by tino

“I like the peace of mind that comes from knowing that should the worst happen and we have a ‘data disaster’ that all of our data is backed up securely and available to us from any Internet connected device” What … Continue reading →

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ESXi on an HP Microserver Part 1: Windows Home Server

Posted on May 9, 2011 by tino

After upgrading the amount of RAM in the HP Microserver to 8GB (the maximum) allowable, I decided to install ESXi on it so that I could run several virtual machines efficiently upon it.  For now I want 2 virtual machines … Continue reading →

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Windows Home Server – Great Features, Low Costs

Posted on April 12, 2011 by tino

In my dealings with small businesses I find that the majority pay little attention to the issue of backup/restore until they lose files/folders or worse still have a hard disk failure in one or more of their machines.  At that … Continue reading →

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