Review: Remote Desktop Connection Manager

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Excerpt: It’s been a while since I’ve done a review of anything on the site and since I’d rather continue to make use of the category than delete it, I decided to share a piece of software I recently discovered that’s helping make my life easier. Remote Desktop Connection Manager is essentially just that – it manages remote desktop connections. However, it does it in a way that I find appealing and EASIER to use than the native client or other organizational methods out there. Remote Desktop Connection Manager (affectionately referred to as RDCMan) displays all your saved connections to the left in…

Windows Server 2008 R2 Boot From SAN on Cisco UCS

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Excerpt: For those that have worked with any type of blade server system, you know that boot from SAN is just about the coolest thing since sliced bread. Cisco UCS makes this even cooler by integrating with the service profile concept, allowing for stateless compute provisioning across the board. I’ve done boot from SAN many times, but never with Windows. I’ve primarily used ESXi4.1 or ESXi5.0 stored on a Fibre Channel LUN, then the VMs are stored in either a FC or NFS datastore. Running a BFS for baremetal Windows isn’t something I’d explored yet. So the first thing I do is get…