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UCS Build Good Practices
So i have done more UCS Build then i can count, and between some of my colleagues and i, we’ve done hundreds of them by now. So we put together a “UCS Best Practice Guide”, i am sharing it here because...
View ArticleVirtual SSDs in VMWare products
A colleague of mine asked me for help with setting up VSAN and asked how to setup VMDKs as SSDs. While i at first gave them the older SATP information, i found an awesome page at Virtually Ghetto and...
View ArticleWhat is in my Bag??
I was recently asked what cool “nerd” tools to have with me whenever i’m going out to do an install. Now there are plenty of times i don’t need some of these or any in fact. However if i’m walking...
View ArticleUsing Cobbler to Rapidly Deploy ESXi With Zero Touch Configuration
This article came about when a collegue of mine, Joe Ploehn @jploehn , created this guide for a customer of his. This guide was developed with the thought process of installing cobbler on his laptop...
View ArticleLooking forward to VMworld 2014??
So i’m pretty stoked about being able to go to VMworld 2014 in San Francisco this year. In my opinion not only should you be going, but you should be excited as well. I don’t care if your a PS Delivery...
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UCS Mini, FI inside the Chassis!!
So I’ve been looking into a really cool product that was announced by Cisco recently. They have announced what is being called UCS “Mini”. It is designed for smaller shops who know they are only ever...
View ArticleSDN for the common nerd
What the heck is SDN? So what is SDN really? Unless you have lived under a rock and have not gone on any tech blogs, or gone to any conferences, or talked to any technical human lately, you have heard...
View ArticleNot sure i want the Internet of Everything
I not so sure i want the Internet of Everything!! While the idea of having more things in our life be available to the internet is cool. It allows things to be interconnected and brings an...
View ArticleMicro-Segmentation on NSX!!
I recently attended a really cool presentation by Scott Lowe about the ability to do Micro-segmentation with NSX. This is, in my opinion, the biggest use case for NSX and something that impresses me a...
View ArticleFinally!! UCS Monitoring software announced!!
I am really excited for this product. One of my biggest complaints i have about UCS, and customers agree, is that there is no excellent monitoring and reporting tool. I haven’t seen it yet so i’m not...
View ArticleGood Morning VMworld Attendees
Good Morning, Today is the real start to all of the action at VMworld. Last night there was the “Welcome Reception” down in the solutions exchange. I was actually really impressed with the amount of...
View ArticleFirst General Session
The first VMworld Keynote is now over. There has been a lot of really interesting information presented this morning. VMware has announced information around their business approaches,...
View ArticleVMware is betting big on EVO
If you didn’t watch the VMworld Keynote today, or read anything on twitter, or were just too busy, it is Monday, then you missed VMware’s big announcement. They are moving into what they call the...
View ArticleGood Morning Its Day 2 of VMWorld
Morning all. It is a very nice Tuesday morning (even though i keep thinking it is Wednesday). Today should yield some big news around the End User Computing space. I’m really looking forward to...
View ArticleEnhancements in vSphere 6.0
I have been using the vSphere 6.0 Beta for a while now. It has been a pretty cool experience and VMware has done a nice job with the product. VMware has announced some of the features that are in the...
View ArticleWednesday here at VMworld
Today is the third full day of VMworld. So far things have been a whirlwind and i’ll admit i’m beat. Coffee is becoming my best friend again after not drinking much of it in a while. There has been a...
View ArticleMajor Releases from Cisco today!!
Cisco has announced some major products and updates this morning around their UCS product line. These announcements are not only just hardware and software but they also show how Cisco is seeing the...
View ArticlevMotion between AMD & Intel
UPDATE: It seems Virtual Hardware 10 VMs will NOT vMotion even with the below done, might want to hang on to v8 for now if this is something you want to do. Its always been said that you can’t vMotion...
View ArticleFog Computing? What the heck?
So i’ve heard a few people talk about and ask about “Fog Computing” lately. Honestly its a term i only heard about fairly recently, even though it is really from earlier in the year. What is it? It...
View ArticleEnable Spell Check in Jabber Client
This worked for me, i can’t guarantee it’ll work for you My company uses Cisco Jabber for their chat and softphone client. I noticed that the new 10.5 client running on Windows 8 allows spellcheck....
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