IT Superhero. I like to learn things, write them down, and occasionally share with others.
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Last week I attended the All Things Open conference in Raleigh. This is a conference dedicated to Open Source Software, which is very different from the usual vendor led conferences I attend. It was also unusual to commute to a conference in the morning and then back home at night.
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Alton Brown's Aged Eggnog This is a great tasting, boozy eggnog recipe worth saving and worth making year after year. We've let this one age up to 3 months with great results. Our secret has been re-purposing beer growlers (glass jugs) to age the nog. I&
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I had to do a little introduction exercise when I moved over to the marketing team as a Tech Marketing Engineer. I had to share some things you wouldn't learn on my LinkedIn Profile with the team. I thought it was fun to walk through and worth reposting
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Fiber optics battle yet again with their arch nemesis the backhoe. Results are predictable. Whole neighborhood out.
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We just made a bunch of announcements about networking enhancements to AHV, and I'll be posting about them at Nutanix.com. Here's an overview of the series: Part 1: AHV Network Visualization Part 2: AHV Network Automation and Integration Part 3: AHV Network Microsegmentation Part 4:
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Let's Encrypt was really easy to setup, but Cron was less so. I kept getting emails that the Let's Encrypt renewal was failing: 2017-03-09 02:51:02,285:WARNING:letsencrypt.cli:Attempting to renew cert from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/bbbburns.com.conf produced an unexpected error:
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I recently saw a news article about StartCom being on Mozilla and Google's naughty list. Things looked bad, and my StartCom certs were up for renewal on the blog. I have seen articles flying around about Let's Encrypt for a while now. The idea seemed awesome,
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My colleagues Gary Little and John Williamson are starting up a blog series on Nutanix performance. Have you ever wondered how Nutanix would perform for your application? Do you wonder how Nutanix compares to a traditional SAN? Do you ever wonder what it means to have 1 hojillion IOPS? I
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Take a look at the latest Nutanix solution note, detailing VMware NSX for vSphere in a Nutanix environment. With these two technologies combined, customers can now virtualize their entire infrastructure. This solution note describes common customer use cases and advantages of NSX software defined networking. We also test two important
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* Part 1 - Host Networking - Bonds * Part 2 - Host Networking - Load Balancing * Part 3 - AHV VLANs * Part 4 - User Virtual Machine VLANs and Networking (You are here!) We're wrapping up our four part series on Nutanix AHV networking today with a look at
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I recently presented a webinar for Cisco UC on Nutanix to highlight exactly how Nutanix could save time and money, while adding features and flexibility, on your next deployment. Take a look at the live webinar here: