IT Superhero. I like to learn things, write them down, and occasionally share with others.
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* Part 1 - Host Networking - Bonds * Part 2 - Host Networking - Load Balancing (You Are Here!) * Part 3 - AHV VLANs * Part 4 - User Virtual Machine VLANs and Networking In our last post we explored bridges and bonds with AHV and Open vSwitch. Today on the Nutanix .NEXT Community Blog I'm
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* Part 1 - Host Networking - Bonds (You Are Here!) * Part 2 - Host Networking - Load Balancing * Part 3 - AHV VLANs * Part 4 - User Virtual Machine VLANs and Networking I'm happy to announce the release of the first Light Board Videos I recorded with the Nutanix nu.school education team. These
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In my last blog post I talked about networking with Open vSwitch in the Nutanix hypervisor, AHV. Today I'm happy to announce the continuation of that initial post - the Nutanix AHV Best Practices Guide. Nutanix introduced the concept of AHV, based on the open source Linux KVM hypervisor.
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Nutanix recently released the AHV hypervisor, which means I get a new piece of technology to learn! Before I started this blog post I had no idea how Open vSwitch worked or what KVM and QEMU were all about. Since I come from a networking background originally, I drilled down
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I'm happy to see that Nutanix has officially announced their upcoming strategic direction at the .NEXT conference. Using Nutanix Acropolis, KVM, and Prism - data center administrators now have the ability to truly make infrastructure invisible. What Is It? To read more about the specific details take a look
Adventure
Breaking Point I used to say "I'd never run unless someone was chasing me." Well I've finally reached that point. I woke up one morning this past winter and realized I was going to be woefully unprepared for an upcoming snowboarding trip. My belly
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Part of my role on the Nutanix Performance and Solutions team is to "evangelize" the technology and tell the world about all the great work we're doing writing documents, testing products and solutions, and assisting with customer engagements. The physical manifestation of that is me sitting
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I wanted to share a bit of cool "value add" today, as my sales and marketing guys would call it. This is just one of the things for Avaya Aura and UC in general that a Nutanix deployment can bring to the table. Nutanix has the concept of
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The Avaya Technology Forum in Orlando was a great success! Thanks to everyone who attended and showed interest in Nutanix by stopping at the booth. I met a lot of interested potential customers and partners and was also able to learn more about what people are virtualizing these days. There
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I'm at the 2015 Avaya Technology Forum with Nutanix to talk about Avaya Unified Communications on the Nutanix platform. Stop by the Nutanix and CRI booth to see the Nutanix gear in action. Nutanix 3460 and 1450 nodes will be powering all the demos you see for Avaya
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In the last blog post I talked about sizing individual VMs. Today we'll look at placing UC VMs onto a Nutanix node (an ESXi host) and coming up with overall system sizing. First I'd like to announce the publication of my document for Virtualizing Cisco UC
Media
I'm torn on how we do funding these days for all the media I love to consume. I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy. The Sword & Laser show and podcast has been a true life saver. They're always curating a list of awesome