Tag: Projects

  • Home Improvement Porch Project

    Home Improvement Porch Project

    Kat bought our house around the same time that I bought my condo in 2014, before we even met! It’s an amazing property on a large wooded lot with nice privacy and set back a bit from the street in a quiet neighborhood. The house had a great back deck with room for an outdoor…

  • Ditching No-IP for DuckDNS

    Ditching No-IP for DuckDNS

    I’ve been using dynamic IP address services from no-ip.com for a long time to give a DNS name to my dynamic home IP. I remember having a no-ip.com address in college around the early 2000s for my dorm, then apartment, computer. I went through a hiatus after college where I managed my domain name to…

  • 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…

  • Let’s Encrypt – Easy – Free – Awesome

    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…

  • Nutanix AHV Best Practices Guide

    Nutanix AHV Best Practices Guide

    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. A new Nutanix node comes installed with AHV by…

  • Survivable UC – Avaya Aura and Nutanix Data Protection

    Survivable UC – Avaya Aura and Nutanix Data Protection

    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 Protection Domains and Metro Availability that have been…

  • Virtualized Avaya Aura on Nutanix – In Progress

    Virtualized Avaya Aura on Nutanix – In Progress

    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 is nothing quite like asking…

  • Nutanix and UC – Part 3: Cisco UC on Nutanix

    In the previous posts we covered an Introduction to Cisco UC and Nutanix as well as Cisco’s requirements for UC virtualization. To quickly summarize… Nutanix is a virtualization platform that provides compute and storage in a way that is fault tolerant and scalable. Cisco UC provides a VMware centric virtualized VoIP collaboration suite that allows clients…

  • Nutanix and UC – Part 2: Cisco Virtualization Requirements

    In the last post I covered an Introduction to Cisco UC and Nutanix. In this post I’ll cover UC performance and virtualization requirements. A scary part of virtualizing Cisco Unified Communications is worrying about being fully supported by Cisco TAC if a non-standard deployment path is chosen. This is due to a long history of…

  • Nutanix and UC – Part 1: Introduction and Overview

    I’ll be publishing a series of blog posts outlining Cisco Unified Communications on Nutanix. At the end of this series I hope to have addressed any potential concerns running Cisco UC and Nutanix and provided all the tools for a successful deployment. Your comments are welcome and encouraged. Let’s start at the beginning, a very good…