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Recipe – Alton Brown’s Aged Eggnog
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’ve done a double batch before, but separating two dozen…
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Things You Won’t Learn on My LinkedIn Profile
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 here! I just married the woman of…
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Fiber Repair
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Backhoe vs Internet
Fiber optics battle yet again with their arch nemesis the backhoe. Results are predictable. Whole neighborhood out.
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Nutanix AHV Networking – What’s New
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: AHV Network Function Chains And it wouldn’t be a blog…
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Let’s Encrypt – How do I Cron?
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: I had a cron job setup with the absolute bare minimum: When I ran at the command line, everything worked just fine. I was like, “Oh – this must be some stupid…
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Let’s Encrypt – Easy – Free – Awesome
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, but the website seemed so light on technical instructions…
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Nutanix Performance and IOPS
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 know I do – so…
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VMware NSX Software Defined Networking with Nutanix
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 deployment scenarios and give configuration…
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Light Board Series: AHV Open vSwitch Networking – Part 4
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 the User VM Networking. Check out the Nutanix…