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Homelab Journey – The Why?!
Like many people in IT Infrastructure-land, having access to a lab environment is extremely valuable. In my career, having access to a notable Enterprise-level infrastructure had been available for me...
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Enabling AMD Ryzen Virtualization Functions
As part of my homelab environment, I am leveraging AMD Ryzen 5 CPUs for the processors. There are a myriad of reasons I went with AMD over Intel (discussion over vBeers at this point), but I have been...
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Fixed Block vs Variable Block Deduplication – A Quick Primer
Deduplication technology is quickly becoming the new hotness in the IT industry. Previously, deduplication was delegated to secondary storage tiers as the controller could not always keep up with the...
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I feel like I am at a crossroads… and trying to figure out which direction to go. In my life, I strive to know about all kinds of things. Heck, in college, I went through 4-5 different majors because I...
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Appreciate The Complexity
Very often, we take so many things for granted. Take Wi-Fi access on airplanes for example… or flying, for that matter (YouTube/Louis CK on Conan). For those of us working in IT (vendor, consulting,...
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SAN and Compute All-In-One
Let’s be honest, x86-based compute in virtualization environments is pretty darn boring. A server has become the necessary evil required for enabling the coolness that is virtualization. But, don’t...
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BYO(a)D Reaction
The other day (Nov 16, 2011 to be exact), my fellow nerd and Tech Field Day delegate, Tom Hollingsworth crafted a great blog post on the new movement in IT, and business in general… Bring Your Own...
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ESXi 5.0–1.5 Hour Boot Time During Upgrade
I have to say, I am quite shocked that I am on the tail end of waiting 1.5 hours for an ESXi 5.0 upgrade to complete booting. Seriously… 1.5 hours. I have been waiting for some time to get some ESXi...
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VMware Virtual Datacenter
Sunday evening, many of the vExpert award recipients converged in the Casanova 503 room at the Venetian for the VMworld 2011 vExpert meeting. Mingling, meeting, and networking was fantastic. However,...
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vSphere 5–PXE Installation Using vCenter Virtual Appliance
The release of vSphere 5 has a lot of little gems. One of which is the availability of a SLES-based vCenter virtual appliance. So, while that is really cool, there is another little nugget of joy...
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VMware vSphere 5–Using Image Builder For Custom Installation
Hard to believe the vSphere 5 release is coming down the pipe. In anticipation of the official availability of the bits for use and VMworld 2011, I thought it would be a great idea for everyone to get...
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VMware vSphere 5 Licensure–Take 2!
The release of the vSphere 5 products on July 12th was amazing. Some very cool new functions and updated existing functions! However, all of the new features were tossed by the wayside in favor of...
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SSH Tunneling–My Sys Admin Favorite Tool
Happy SysAdmin day everyone! While my title may not say “System Administrator” any longer (although, my business cards do… probably need to change them), I still wield those skill all the time and have...
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vSphere 5 Release–HA Improvements
High availability has become one of those functions that many companies take for granted. The ability for a mission critical virtual machine to re-spawn elsewhere in the event of a host failure is...
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vSphere 5 Release–Initial Thoughts
Well… it may not be much of a surprise that the Raising The Bar event on July 12th was regarding the release of the latest version of the vSphere product line. So, what is this release all about?...
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SAN and Compute All-In-One
Let’s be honest, x86-based compute in virtualization environments is pretty darn boring. A server has become the necessary evil required for enabling the coolness that is virtualization. But, don’t...
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BYO(a)D Reaction
The other day (Nov 16, 2011 to be exact), my fellow nerd and Tech Field Day delegate, Tom Hollingsworth crafted a great blog post on the new movement in IT, and business in general… Bring Your Own...
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ESXi 5.0–1.5 Hour Boot Time During Upgrade
I have to say, I am quite shocked that I am on the tail end of waiting 1.5 hours for an ESXi 5.0 upgrade to complete booting. Seriously… 1.5 hours. I have been waiting for some time to get some ESXi...
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VMware Virtual Datacenter
Sunday evening, many of the vExpert award recipients converged in the Casanova 503 room at the Venetian for the VMworld 2011 vExpert meeting. Mingling, meeting, and networking was fantastic. However,...
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vSphere 5–PXE Installation Using vCenter Virtual Appliance
The release of vSphere 5 has a lot of little gems. One of which is the availability of a SLES-based vCenter virtual appliance. So, while that is really cool, there is another little nugget of joy...
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