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Run a Windows 10 Instance in AWS EC2

AWS Tech Soup Virtualization

You want a Microsoft Windows 10 instance in your EC2 environment.  Maybe its for a jump box, maybe its for direct access to some RDS instances or other services.  Whatever...

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by Rick Gouin | on Jan 20th 2021 | No Comments

Make Your Own METAR Weather Map

Datacenter

This is kind of like COVID sourdough bread for pilots.  Seems like many of us undertook this fun project to keep us busy during COVID.  As usual, I was a little behind the...

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by Rick Gouin | on Jan 8th 2021 | No Comments
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Move an Existing VM into AWS EC2

AWS Datacenter Disaster Recovery Homelab

You want to move a VM into AWS EC2 with as little knowledge as possible, right?  You don’t care to become an expert in AWS, you just want enough to get the job done. ...

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by Rick Gouin | on Jan 5th 2021 | No Comments

New PowerStore in the Lab!

Datacenter Storage

As I mentioned here, we were beta testers for the Dell PowerStore all-flash storage array.  We tested everything from initial imaging of the array as either a Model T or...

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by Rick Gouin | on Aug 11th 2020 | No Comments

Dell PowerStore Part 2!

Datacenter Storage

In the last segment, we went over PowerStore hardware. This time, we are going to dig into some more of the features, functionality, and capabilities of this newest...

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by Rick Gouin | on May 5th 2020 | 1 Comment

Dell PowerStore Released!

Datacenter Hyperconverged Storage

Dell officially announces, releases, and launches their new midrange storage product today. You may have heard rumors about this platform under its code name midrange.next....

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by Rick Gouin | on May 5th 2020 | 4 Comments
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Link Personal AWS Certs to Company APN account

Datacenter

To be an Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner, there are requirements for people at your company to have various certifications. The higher the level of partnership, the more...

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by Rick Gouin | on Jan 22nd 2020 | 8 Comments
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Dell EMC SC Series Veeam Plugin Now Available!

Datacenter Disaster Recovery Storage

This has to be one of the most commonly requested integrations for SC. It seems like every time I talk about SC with a customer, they ask about Veeam integration. After...

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by Rick Gouin | on Sep 30th 2019 | No Comments

Why Upgrade?

Datacenter Tech Soup

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” – IT Manager, Fortune 500 manufacturing firm “Once servers are deployed in our environment, we never...

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by Rick Gouin | on Jan 2nd 2019 | No Comments

New Storage Dense Dell R740xd2 Could Be Great for HCI!

Datacenter Servers

R740xd2 Front with trays open This thing is awesome.  Dell just launched the Dell Poweredge R740xd2, which is essentially a 3.5″ drive version of the Poweredge R740xd. ...

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by Rick Gouin | on Dec 4th 2018 | 1 Comment
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RickGouinRick Gouin@RickGouin·
6 Jan

I've talked through this process with folks a few times lately, so I figured I would write it up. Maybe it will be useful to someone else: How to do a one-off migration of an existing VM from on-prem VMware into AWS EC2 http://rgou.in/2JVQlM4

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RickGouinRick Gouin@RickGouin·
29 Dec

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RickGouinRick Gouin@RickGouin·
24 Nov

I'm hiring an experienced datacenter pre-sales SE to design solutions for our customers in the southeast US (NC, SC area). DMs open! More info here: https://winslowtg.com/job/solutions-architect/

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