Tag: Projects
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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…
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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 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Nutanix and Unified Communications
The past week has been a whirlwind of studying, research, and introductions now that I’ve started at Nutanix! I’m happy to be on the team working on Reference Architectures for Unified Communications. I’m planning to investigate the major Unified Communications platforms (VoIP, Voice Messaging, IM & Presence, E911) from the top vendors and come up…