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New Year, New Job!

With the start of the new year comes a fresh start for me...

Automating Nutanix Prism VMs

My goal is to explore the Nutanix APIs provided by Prism and Acropolos Hypervisor and automate deployment of AHV virtual machines.

NetApp Insight 2016 Impressions

I did an internal write up about attendance at my 3rd NetApp Insight in a row.

Using Ansible to Bootstrap My Work Environment Part 5

What is the point of all of this effort? After all this is a very specific, personal work environment. This seems like an inordinate amount of time spent t...

Using Ansible to Bootstrap My Work Environment Part 4

Using an AWS EC2 instance as a utility host presents some additional interesting wrinkles.

Using Ansible to Bootstrap My Work Environment Part 3

In my previous post I dove into crouton specific role items. These were just little bits unique to a Chromebook chroot environment. The bulk of items I can ...

Using Ansible to Bootstrap My Work Environment Part 2

Besides my standard day-to-day laptop running Ubuntu, I also have a Chromebook I picked up a while back. I like the light weight and the long battery life fo...

Using Ansible to Bootstrap My Work Environment - Part I

I began to realize is that I needed a way to quickly and repeatably bootstrap my working environment details. Should my laptop crash I should be able to qui...

Translating Unix Shell Processing to Powershell Equivalents

It became interesting to see how I might translate work from Unix shell equivalents which is how I tend to think when given a task and use PowerShell equival...

Link: Mardi Gras 2016 Pics

Using Python and Netmiko to Automate SAN Zoning

UPDATE github repo for this (H/T Scott Lowe)

Link: Why I Hate ITIL so much

Integrating gitlab into my existing Apache

Intro In addition to using github a little bit, I've built my own private gitlab server. Part of my motivation is that some things I'm using this for do...

K10

In the past we’ve been out of town for 8/29. Not this year. The coverage and discussions have been impossible to avoid. The memories and emotions of those ...

Link: All-flash storage stumbles on cost per gigabyte

Powershell Scripts for Backup of cDOT NFS Exports

cDOT changes things. But you can still take a similar approach to making sure your DR storage virtual machines stay in sync with their sources.

Link: We're Deprecating HTTP And It's Going To Be Okay

Document as You Go

One habit I strongly recommend to tech practitioners is to document as you go. The usual habit is to try and document everything after you’ve done a new task...

When Rendering Your Laptop Unbootable Is a Learning Experience

I wasn't paying close attention and instead of pointing the tool at a file I pointed it at /dev/sda2 which is /boot on my system, as root of course. I didn't...

Link: No Reboot Patching Comes to Linux 4.0

Link: SDN: software defined networking ... or small distributed namespaces

Link: Mardi Gras Pics 2015 - Weekend 2

Link: Mardi Gras Pics 2015 - Weekend 1

The All Flash Array - to Buy or Not to Buy

My customers are being inundated with All Flash Array marketing. What's going on?

What I Do for a Living

So one of the most common questions I get from friends and family is "So what is it you do now?" Most of them know I changed jobs 6 months ago.

What Programming Computer Games Was Like in the 80s

Link: Six Features You Absolutely Need on Your Storage in 2015

Link: A Non Programmer's Introduction to Git

New Year, New Start With Jekyll

So it's a new year and time to make a new start on ye olde blog site. I last refreshed my design and tools around 2006. So why change now?