You’ve been building your vSphere environment for several years now. After a few upgrades, both hardware and software, you’ve finally developed a robust, flexible platform for your infrastructure. vCenter Server [...]

For the January 2013 C-MUG, Terry Slattery, CCIE #1026, Principal Consultant and Bill Koss from

Here is my list of the top ten security mistakes that IT staff makes.  These mistakes leave your network vulnerable to attack and compromise. Mistake #1: Failure to monitor your network. [...]

Just a quick tip for you: if you’re setting up an iSCSI Authentication Profile in UCS, you’ll want to make sure your password is between 12 and 16 characters long, [...]

Here is my list of the top ten security mistakes that IT staff makes.  These mistakes leave your network vulnerable to attack and compromise. Mistake #2:  Failure to record flow information. 

Small and mid-sized businesses, and more specifically their IT departments, continue to search for a stable backup solution for their virtualized environments. VMware, too, has offered several solutions for this [...]

In a nutshell: configure your DNS servers to only resolve addresses for the top (most popular) 1 million domain names. Any request for a domain that is in the top [...]

For those of you looking for the rest of the top 10 list, I'll get back to it in a little bit.  But first I want to share an interesting idea:

Within the Collaboration practice here at NetCraftsmen, we always emphasize proper planning as being a major key to the success we’ve had on various projects over the years.  CUCM upgrades [...]

Address spoofing protections, collectively known as “layer two” protections, thwart malicious attempts to falsify or spoof IP or MAC addresses in order to gain unauthorized access to your network.  There [...]

Here is my list of the top ten security mistakes that IT staff makes.  These mistakes leave your network vulnerable to attack and compromise. Mistake #4:  Internet Access For Servers.

Here is my list of the top ten security mistakes that IT staff makes.  These mistakes leave your network vulnerable to attack and compromise. Mistake #5:  Caching Windows Credentials.