Dell SC End of Life
Dell SC, perhaps better known as Compellent, has finally had its end of life formally announced. I feel like many people have been watching for this since the acquisition...
Hardening Dell Storage Center (SC) – Compellent
Cybersecurity Datacenter Storage
Over the last year or so, I’ve helped multiple companies recover from ransomware events utilizing snapshots on their storage arrays. In several of these instances,...
New Dell PowerStore OS 2.0 Really is Future Ready
Dell just announced PowerStore OS version 2.0. It will be available for download on 6/10/2021. If you are new to PowerStore, check out this intro post here. As you can...
Dell’s PowerStore reaches down market with new entry level PS500T
Dell is expanding the reach of the PowerStore mid-range storage platform further down-market with the introduction of the entry level PowerStore 500T. This smaller system...
Self host Bitwarden in AWS
I’ve used a number of different password managers over the years. I was a LastPass user for a long time, but recently felt compelled to take a look at other options...
Run a Windows 10 Instance in AWS EC2
You want a Microsoft Windows 10 instance in your EC2 environment. Maybe its for a jump box, maybe its for direct access to some RDS instances or other services. Whatever...
Make Your Own METAR Weather Map
This is kind of like COVID sourdough bread for pilots. Seems like many of us undertook this fun project to keep us busy during COVID. As usual, I was a little behind the...
Move an Existing VM into AWS EC2
AWS Datacenter Disaster Recovery Homelab
You want to move a VM into AWS EC2 with as little knowledge as possible, right? You don’t care to become an expert in AWS, you just want enough to get the job done. ...
New PowerStore in the Lab!
As I mentioned here, we were beta testers for the Dell PowerStore all-flash storage array. We tested everything from initial imaging of the array as either a Model T or...
Dell PowerStore Part 2!
In the last segment, we went over PowerStore hardware. This time, we are going to dig into some more of the features, functionality, and capabilities of this newest...