Monthly Archives: January 2020

Vendor Briefing – Formulus Black

Posted on January 30, 2020 by Alastair

New servers in your data center can have a lot of RAM DIMMs in them, or some RAM and some Persistent MEMory (PMEM) such as Optane DIMMs. Either way, there is a lot of fast capacity that might help solve … Continue reading →

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AWS Surprises – It Is Not All about VMs

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Alastair

This is the first in a series of posts about things that surprised me when I started to work with AWS services. This particular surprise was one of the first, back in 2013, I was still teaching VMware courses and … Continue reading →

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AWS Is a Land of Surprises

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Alastair

As I started working with and writing about AWS, there were a few things that surprised me about how different AWS is from on-premises vSphere. As I have been teaching AWS official courses, I have continued to notice things that … Continue reading →

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Cohesity + Ansible = Automation Protecting Physical Servers

Posted on January 17, 2020 by Alastair

Ansible is an easy tool to start using for declarative configuration.  I use Ansible to make sure a small fleet of Linux VMs are configured exactly the same each time I deploy them. In my last Cohesity video and post, … Continue reading →

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Getting Started with The Cohesity Ansible Role

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Alastair

When it comes to managing a fleet of Linux boxes with minimal extra infrastructure, I am a fan of Ansible. I have written before about using PowerShell to automate working with Cohesity, that will be a good choice for vSphere … Continue reading →

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