VMworld 2015: Managing vSphere 6.0 Deployments & Upgrades, Part 2 #INF5123
Excellent presentation by Brian and Salil! They did a great job laying out the upgrade paths, caveats, as well as legacy references for folks coming from ESXi 4.x and early 5.x. The biggest takeaways...
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VMworld 2015: Virtual SAN – Technical Deep Dive & What’s New #STO5906
This session is/was true to its title and definitely dove deep into Virtual SAN (VSAN). Due to the extreme nature of details, requirements, parameters, etc, I decided to conclude the live notes about...
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VMworld 2015: Managing vSphere 6.0 Deployments & Upgrades, Part 1 #INF4944
Dilpreet & Mohan did a great job laying out the install and upgrade paths to reach vCenter 6.0, whether in Appliance or Windows mode. As I mentioned yesterday, the VMware team is encouraging...
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Enable Logging for Sourcefire Security Intelligence Feeds
Last week I had a situation where an external client was reporting a complete inability to access any of our internet-accessible resources. If they changed IPs, though, they were fine. Considering it...
View ArticleCultivating Community In Technology
Through the years, I have been blessed and cursed by technology communities. Some foster cooperative atmospheres, pour in valuable content, and stoke ingenuity. Others are deserts and catacombs of...
View ArticleIs The Data Efficiency Metric A Bunch Of Hot Air?
Since the advent of thin provisioning, the concept of “data efficiency” has been used to describe how storage arrays deliver on large capacity requests while only reserving what’s actually occupied by...
View ArticleWhat Does The Dell+EMC Merger Mean To The Industry?
This morning, Dell and EMC announced their impending merger as Dell and Silver Lake set out to acquire EMC and its holdings with cash and stock, while maintaining VMware as an independent,...
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How To Upgrade to ESXi 6.0 And Overcome “Incompatible” Status
With the release of ESXi 6.0 Update 1a, which fixed the network connectivity issue that plagued all ESXi 6.0 releases until October 6, I have begun my own journey from 5.5 to 6.0. I’m taking a new...
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How To Fix Infrastructure Navigator Error: “An unknown VM access error has...
While deploying vRealize (formerly, vCenter) Infrastructure Navigator (VIN) yesterday, I ran into an access error that wasn’t at all pleasant. Access failed. An unknown VM access error has occurred. I...
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Replicated Recovery With Rubrik
Rubrik makes instant recovery easy everywhere. As I wrote four months ago, it only takes a few clicks to bring a previous version of any protected VM into production. In 2.0, the great folks at Rubrik...
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Starting A New Chapter
After nearly 10 years of pushing the bleeding edge of infrastructure at ExponentHR, I am turning a new page in the career playbook. On January 18th, I begin my new journey through the vendor landscape...
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Pure Rubrik Goodness
As Pure//Accelerate approaches, one of my favorite aspects of winning solutions comes to mind. It’s a virtue that transforms products into MVPs, rather than the drama generators so common on the court...
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Overcoming Challenges with SuperMicro BIOS Updates
After far, far too long, I finally stood up my home lab to run vSphere 6 and an upcoming assortment of servers and tools. SolarWinds, Rubrik, and many others will shortly be churning away. First things...
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From The Other Side
It’s been far too long since I’ve posted content of significant substance, but it isn’t for lack of experiences. At a week out from 6 months on the vendor side and start-up life, in particular, I’ve...
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Fun Serving Customers
Two weeks ago I transitioned from a “Field Engineer” role at Rubrik to that of a “Sales Engineer” (sometimes called “Systems Engineer”). I had been double-dipping in the positions for a while, but...
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How to Migrate WordPress from AWS EC2 to cPanel-based Shared Hosting
Sometime in 2016, I moved my blog (this one) to an AWS EC2 instance (t2.micro) running Amazon Linux. It seemed like a good idea at the time, since my prior hosting (Gandi.net) was shutting down their...
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My Fave-5 Rubrik Features of 2017
It’s snowing here on New Year’s Eve 2017 as I sit here in Northern Virginia, reflecting on the multitude of things that crammed themselves into the past 364 days. Turning the lens to Rubrik, I thought...
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Neat Tools for Learning Languages in 2018
Technically, I cheated. I used the holiday “break” to get a jump start on fresh learning in 2018, but it’s a streak I’ve kept up for about two weeks now, so I’ll give the new year credit for...
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Happy Birthday, Rubrik!
Four years ago today, an amazing company was born at the hands of four incredible co-founders who still lead our rocketship today. I am pleased and honored to have worked with this incredible team for...
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The Player-to-Coach Transition Is Hard
Are you a first-line manager (or higher)? Or maybe an aspiring individual contributor with eyes on a management role? If so, please take five minutes and see if this could apply to your team or even...
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