Fine Tuning Media Center 7 – Is it all worth it – Part 2
A while back, I had "given up" on using a Media Center PC, sold the digital cable tuner cards, and…
VPN Router on a Stick
Previously, when using a Cisco PIX firewall, VPN 3000 (Altiga), or other VPN hardware as an endpoint for a L2L or…
Software Based Storage: Thoughts and local storage tests
It has occurred to me that all these comparisons are not exactly equal...while the VM configurations, test procedures, and testing…
Windows 7 Streaming: Media on an External Drive
In an effort to preserve some functionality of not having a dedicated Media Center PC (see this post for more), I…
FreeNAS Performance Part 1: NFS Storage
EDIT 1/8/2013: This post should be titled FreeNAS: The performance you will get when you don't allocate enough RAM, or…
Software iSCSI Targets: Part 2B – StarWind, Multiple VMs
Part 2B: 3 VM IOMeter load on a StarWind iSCSI datastore. Same procedure as previous testing - Complete install time:…
Software iSCSI Targets – Part 2a: MS iSCSI – Multiple VMs
In Part 2 of this series, we will look at the performance of the Software iSCSI targets under a heavier…
StarWind iSCSI vs. Microsoft iSCSI – Part 1
*NEW* StarWind V8 [BETA] is here!! and it looks VERY promising!! For some small to medium sized businesses and even some…
Windows Server 8: Offline servicing
From the little that I've looked into Windows Server 8, my favorite new built-in feature is offline servicing. This was…
BE.net 2.5
After a lengthy period of downtime the blog is back up, and is now running on BlogEngine.net 2.5!! Now that we've…