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Category Archives: General
AWS Surprises – No VM Console Access
In a vSphere environment, connecting to the “physical” console of a VM is natural. Whether you need to change the BIOS settings or choose to boot from the network or watch the operating system boot, the VM console is a … Continue reading
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AWS Surprises – Reduce your bill by giving AWS more responsibility
This article is part of my series on how AWS surprised me as I transitioned from an on-premises vSphere specialist to teaching AWS courses. In a previous life, I worked for an IT outsourcing company here in New Zealand, much … Continue reading
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Protecting Physical Servers with Cohesity
Cohesity started with data protection and management for virtual machines and can also help customers who have valuable data and applications in physical servers. Like every other physical backup product, there is an agent to install and then register with … Continue reading
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Vendor Briefing – Formulus Black
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 Is a Land of Surprises
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
AWS Surprises – It Is Not All about VMs
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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Cohesity + Ansible = Automation Protecting Physical Servers
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
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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Cohesity at Tech Field Day in 2019
Cohesity I have made a lot of walk-through and demonstrations videos as I have learnt about the Cohesity platform over the last year. We also showed you the deployment process and some architecture in the Cohesity Build Day Live event, … Continue reading
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Vendor Briefing: Scale Computing Edge Solution
Size matters, not in absolute terms where bigger or smaller is always better, but in matching a solution to the requirements it needs to fulfill. Scale Computing has transformed over the last few years from a player for budget-conscious small … Continue reading
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