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Burns After Reading: Volume 10
Adding a new feature talking about Burns Behaving Badly, quoting my favorite authors and musicians, plus a novel take on the AI factory.
Work
Family
2025 Summary
I'm doing this again. A year in review for 2025. If you want to catch last year's, you can find 2024 here. Pray that brevity finds me, for your sake. 2025 brought new challenges and plenty of adventure. Challenges Psychic Damage The first challenge of 2025
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Air-Gapped Cyber Resilient Infrastructure
During Nutanix .NEXT 2025 in Washington, DC, I had the honor of presenting a main stage demo to ~4,000 attendees. I can write a bit more about what it took to get this demo ready, but for now I'm just happy to share that the presentation is
Travel
2024 Summary
It's been a while since I've posted. In fact, this is the first post of 2024. It's been a whirlwind of a year. The year started out spending lots of time with friends and saying an untimely, final goodbye in January. Lots of memories
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Should I Write About Nutanix Community Edition?
Would there be any interest if I made some articles or videos about Nutanix Community Edition? Right now all of the main info for it is captured in the Nutanix NEXT Community Forums. I see that Nutanix CE and the new CE 2.0 are really popular search terms. What
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How To: Get a Job in Technical Marketing
Something different: A post about career and work instead of home improvement and travel. ;) * Have you ever wondered what it takes to be in marketing at a tech company? * Are you curious what a career path looks like for someone after 20 years in tech? * Do you think technical marketing
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All Things Open 2018
Last week I attended the All Things Open conference in Raleigh. This is a conference dedicated to Open Source Software, which is very different from the usual vendor led conferences I attend. It was also unusual to commute to a conference in the morning and then back home at night.
Technology
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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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
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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
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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
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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