Synology NAS A couple of weeks ago my current storage array lost a power supply and could not keep any drives mapped to a current RAID configuration. I will have a post soon about my original setup. So here is the high level design of my initial array. Dell pizza box server. JBOD attached through… Read More »
Sophos UTM 9 This will be a high level over view of my experience with setting up the Sophos UTM 9 virtual application. Sophos has a FREE, yes I said free version of their Sophos UTM appliance. This firewall will protect up to 50 IP address. You read more here. I proceeded to download the… Read More »
My Road Map – Job Title I have had a little time to think about where I want to go and what I want to do. I call it my Road Map. It has been a very interesting year. I have changed jobs. I attended VMworld for the first time. I participated in Virtual Design Master.… Read More »
Technical Writing I know most of you not reading my blog do not like the technical documentation. As I find my witting style, this is the best way that I can keep writing and stay current with the technology that I am currently working with. It also provides me with documentation as I am staging… Read More »
Disable Device Driver Signing in Windows 10 I was trying to install a driver for a legacy HP plotter. Every time I tried to install the driver I got this error: Windows encountered a problem installing the driver software for your device. Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install… Read More »
Setup a UCS C240 for vSAN In this post I will show you how to use the UCS KVM console to setup the hard drives for use in an existing vSAN cluster. If you need to load ESX on a UCS server look at my previous UCS post here. Let’s get started. Open your CIMC console.… Read More »
A Note to VMworld Vendors This will be my first VMworld. There are a couple of things that I have noticed that might help. Do not ignore the blogger community. These are the people who write articles about your products. If you want them to check out or talk about to product or the changes/modifications to… Read More »
VMworld Day 3 – September 1st This is the day of the big general session. Where I am at in my career, there was nothing that surprised me. NSX 6.2 will be released vMotion between on-premises and cloud (only in vCloud Air) Any end user device all applications With my current experience level nothing made… Read More »
VMworld Day 2 – Aug 31th Thank you again VMware for the great conference. In case you did not know, this is my first year to #VMworld. The first general session was hit and miss in my op. The three main points that I got out of the presentation was EVO SDN, Cloud vMotion and vSphere containers. The #vBrownbag… Read More »
Virtual Design Master vBrownbag at VMworld Sorry of the late post. I will be in the Hang Space on Thursday at 12:15. You can steam it live here. For those what will be on-stage. Here are the questions you need to think about. Your experience with vDM? What have you learned from vDM? How has it helped you… Read More »