This is a bit of a departure from my usual datacenter focused content, but I like to post about gadgets once in a while. I grabbed this tire inflator from Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/362215003/urlazy-the-cordless-handheld-tire-inflator The...
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...
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...
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...
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” – IT Manager, Fortune 500 manufacturing firm “Once servers are deployed in our environment, we never...
Hybrid architectures are popular. As I look across the organizations that I consult with, I am hard pressed to point out many that aren’t working in some flavor of...
One of the most popular articles of all time on this blog has been an article on how to get CrashPlan running on a headless server. Crashplan changed some things in how...
Datacenter Tech Soup Virtualization
I’ve finally released my Nutanix Android App on the Google Play app market. You’ll find it here. You may have read about this project on the Nutanix blog here:...
Datacenter Scripting Tech Soup
In my last article, I showed a simple way to read data from a Nutanix cluster using PHP. This method was simple because it didn’t have to send any data to the cluster,...
Datacenter Servers Storage Tech Soup
Day 2 of the 2016 Nutanix .NEXT conference at the Wynn in Las Vegas. This morning brought out a couple interesting announcements, as well as the delivery of some features...