Larry Smith Jr.

Exploring and sharing practical insights on virtualization, cloud technologies, automation, and DevOps. My mission is to empower others to build, automate, and innovate with confidence.

Everything Should Be Virtual - Virtualization, Automation, Infrastructure

PHD Virtual Restores and Replication

February 21, 2013 3 minute read

In this article we will be going through the process of using PHD Virtual for doing file level restores, whole vm restores and replications. The initial inst...

Vote for your favorite virtualization blogs for 2012

February 20, 2013 less than 1 minute read

Go here to vote for your favorite virtualization blogs. Even though my site is not on the list of choices there are some great blogs out there to choose from...

Welcome to Everything Should Be Virtual

February 20, 2013 less than 1 minute read

The site has now been renamed to everythingshouldbevirtual.com Welcome to the new site.

HP P4000 Storage issue for Monday

February 18, 2013 less than 1 minute read

Here is what I have woken up to for today. This is the first time I have seen this. I rebooted the node to see if it would revive the missing disks, but no g...

Nexenta Performance Testing No-SSD/SSD

February 16, 2013 2 minute read

In this post I will be testing Disk IO without SSD for L2ARC and ZIL/SLOG and then again with SSD for L2ARC and ZIL/SLOG. I will be using the VMware I/O anal...