Hi everyone, just want to say Happy New Year for 2013 and Merry Xmas. I hope everyone had a great holiday with family, friends and loved ones. Can’t wait to get started on some new content for everyone along with a few other ideas I have that hopefully everyone will like, I will update everyone shortly on what this is exactly.

Windows Failover Cluster – Creating an MSDTC Cluster Resource

another new additon to the Windows Clustering Tutorials is how to setup and create an MSDTC Resource within a Windows Failover Cluster. In this tutorial I run through installing the MSDTC resource followed by a few extra config changes that are needed.

Hi Everyone,

Windows Failover Cluster Volume Mount Points

A new addition to the Windows Clustering Tutorials is how to add Volume Mount Points to a Windows Failover Cluster. In this tutorial I run through creating the root volume mount point and two additional mount points.

Hi everyone, as you know last week vSphere 5 was released so I got straight into creating some tutorials for you. First up was a Tutorial on install ESXi 5 followed by upgrading vCenter 4 to vCenter 5. These can be found here:
Installing ESXi5:
http://www.sysadmintutorials.com/tutorials/vmware-vsphere-5-x/esxi-5/installing-vmware-esxi-5/
Configuring ESXi 5:
http://www.sysadmintutorials.com/tutorials/vmware-vsphere-5-x/esxi-5/configuring-vmware-esxi-5/
Upgrade vCenter 4 to vCenter 5:
http://www.sysadmintutorials.com/tutorials/vmware-vsphere-5-x/vcenter-5-x/upgrading-vcenter-4-to-vcenter-5/

I’ve been playing around this weekend with an easier experience for mobile users, iphone, ipad, andriod, windows 7 phones, blackberry etc to access the site. While the mobile experience is pretty customizatble I’d love to hear back from people with any comments or suggestions, do you like it or not ? You can leave comments below. As you access the site with your mobile phone you will automatically go to the mobile enhancement area. Thanks and have a good week!

If anyone is interested I have 30% off discount codes for Vmware Fusion 3.1 and Vmware Workstation 7.1. Click on the links below:

We have come across some discounts and savings for you on the following vendors – Vmware, Trend Micro, SanDisk and Check Point Zone Alarm. I will repost once I add more vendors so please subscribe to my RSS feed by clicking on the RSS icon at the top right side of the page.

Today the Sysadmin Forums are live. Click on the forums link at the top of the page and you will get redirected. It took a while to get the forums up and running but they’re finally here. This is the first release and would love to hear any feedback or comments on what I can do to improve it for everyone.

Hi everyone, I would just like to wish everyone a very Merry Xmas and Happy New Year for 2011. I’d also like to thank everyone for all their suggestions, donations and support in getting this site up and running and I look forward to bringing you many more Tutorials for 2011.