Category Archives: General

January is summer here in New Zealand, our holiday season starts with Christmas and school is out until early February. Traditionally almost nothing happens in New Zealand during January. Certainly nothing business related. Despite this, I wrote a few articles … Continue reading →

I wrote before about why I decided to put an application into a Docker container. Today I’m going to cover a bit more of the how. I originally wrote the application fast and dirty. It was my first serious use … Continue reading →

I am back at the front of the classroom, although in this case, it is an online classroom. Starting in February I will be teaching a course on “Operations with VMware vSphere” for Safari Books Online. If you are a … Continue reading →

Next week is another great Tech Field Day event for me. This time it is Tech Field Day 13 in Austin. It seems that I only attend odd numbered TFD events, TFD9, VFD3, VFD5, TFD11, SFD11, and now TFD13. I … Continue reading →

It has been a few months since I last got an update for SimpliVity, so the launch of their OmniStack V3.61 was a good reason for an update. • There are some nice manageability updates in this version. You can … Continue reading →

Each month I write articles that are published on other sites, which is a large reason why I don’t write so much on this blog. It looks like I only got one blog post here in December, but had at … Continue reading →

I’ve been reading and writing about Docker for a while. Recently I started using Docker for a project, getting hands-on to solve real problems is my favorite way to learn. Like most infrastructure people I don’t consider myself a developer. … Continue reading →

I last talked to SolarWinds at my first TechField Day event, way back in 2013. I remember being impressed with the depth of geekiness at the company. Their people have deep math skills to help the product analyze the data … Continue reading →

I’m working on a fun little project while I’m home for a few weeks. For a new vBrownBag project. I need to create a VM based workload generator. What I want is a collection of VMs that generate some significant … Continue reading →

It is the unknown unknowns that are the scariest. Those days when a server unexpectedly runs out of disk space. It usually happens to me because I have a server connected to my Dropbox account. With the folder that the … Continue reading →