Why Upgrade?
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” – IT Manager, Fortune 500 manufacturing firm “Once servers are deployed in our environment, we never...
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Hybrid Architectures: Let’s Talk Availability
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...
How to Install Crashplan on Your Headless NAS
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...
Nutanix Android App Released!!
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:...
Make Changes to Your Nutanix Cluster using PHP and cURL
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,...
Nutanix Acropolis Block Services – .NEXT 2016
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...
Use Powershell to Edit MP3 Tags
Here is a bit of a change from the usual datacenter type posts. A nameless friend of mine recently plugged her Ipod into a different PC that was set to auto-sync. It appeared...