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:
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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: 2017-03-09 02:51:02,285:WARNING:letsencrypt.cli:Attempting to renew cert from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/bbbburns.com.conf produced an
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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Cisco UC on Nutanix Webinar
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:
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Light Board Series: AHV Open vSwitch Networking – Part 3
* Part 1 - Host Networking - Bonds * Part 2 - Host Networking - Load Balancing * Part 3 - AHV VLANs (You are here!) * Part 4 - User Virtual Machine VLANs and Networking For part 3 in our series I want to tackle VLANs in AHV. I don't actually have a light board video for
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Light Board Series: AHV Open vSwitch Networking – Part 2
* 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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Light Board Series: AHV Open vSwitch Networking - Part 1
* 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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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.