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Deploying Nutanix on Lenovo HX servers with Mellanox SX1012 ethernet switches |
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IT Management and Infrastructure Design. Deploying Nutanix on Lenovo HX servers with Mellanox SX1012 ethernet switches. This entry was posted on May 14, 2016, in Infrastructure Design Guide. The Lenovo HX servers were not what I expected from an HCI solution. Granted, they are high quality 2U rackmount servers, but they are still just that. However, where they lack in space savings, they make up for in connectivity options. One problem we had was that there was no 10G SFP connection on the legacy HP swit...
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The new release of NSX (codename Transformers) with a unified code stream (#vdm30in30 – day 4) |
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IT Management and Infrastructure Design. The new release of NSX (codename Transformers) with a unified code stream (#vdm30in30 – day 4). This entry was posted on May 4, 2016, in Infrastructure Design Guide. There has been some talk in the past about unifying the NSX-MH and NSX-v code under a single code base. Currently they are two separate products, which creates a certain amount of head scratching on the deployment side. REST API using JSON based encoding. Bare metal or virtual edge gateways. You are c...
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VMware documentation resources (#vdm30in30 – day 2) |
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IT Management and Infrastructure Design. VMware documentation resources (#vdm30in30 – day 2). This entry was posted on May 3, 2016, in Infrastructure Design Guide. This started from a discussion on the vExpert slack channel at 5AM about documentation and it started to get a bit long winded as I posted links and references in the slack channel. So without delay, here they are below:. If you want to go with the excel format, you should check out an oldie but goodie; NetworkDNA. VCE also has some excellent ...
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Book Reviews |
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IT Management and Infrastructure Design. Here I will provide my personal opinion on books I have come across. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. Chris Colotti's Blog.
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VDM30in30 – day 3 – How to get some easy wins with Powershell when provisioning – part 1 |
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IT Management and Infrastructure Design. VDM30in30 – day 3 – How to get some easy wins with Powershell when provisioning – part 1. This entry was posted on November 4, 2015, in Infrastructure Design Guide. One really good tool for this is Powershell. There are many comandlets that help with this and will make your life easier. Here I will talk about powershell comandlets for vSphere and Cisco UCS. First thing first, install Powershell on a windows machine. Or follow these steps below:. First, from the Po...
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VMUG Vancouver |
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IT Management and Infrastructure Design. Welcome to the Vancouver, BC VMUG virtual workspace! The idea around this collaboration tool is for the members of the Vancouver group to play a more active role in your local VMUG. Through this website, you will be able to communicate and share with each other all year long. The new workspace features: forums and listservs for communicating and sharing ideas, file libraries for posting records and documents, links to our upcoming meetings, polls and more! IT Mana...
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VMware Horizon Crowdchat – April 15th 2015 |
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IT Management and Infrastructure Design. VMware Horizon Crowdchat – April 15th 2015. This entry was posted on April 15, 2015, in Infrastructure Design Guide. Today in a crowdchat we had just under 100 people online with about 2000 people viewing the livestream. There were a total of 7 question posed to the group about the landscape, trends, etc. Below are the list of questions, followed by a link to the whole transcript. Q3: What is the significance of app transformation? What does this even mean? Notify...
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VDM30in30 – Day 5 – Lessons learned from provisioning Hyper-V 2012R2 on Nutanix |
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IT Management and Infrastructure Design. VDM30in30 Day 5 Lessons learned from provisioning Hyper-V 2012R2 on Nutanix. This entry was posted on November 20, 2015, in Infrastructure Design Guide. I was thrown into a Hyper-V 2012 R2 deployment on Nutanix recently and I found that it would have been impossible to manage without Powershell. It is the only way to really manage Hyper-V in my mind. Or at least the hosts. Some things that I learned from the deployment:. On a CVM after provisioning the host OS.
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Destination VCDX6-NV (#vdm30in30 day 1) |
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IT Management and Infrastructure Design. Destination VCDX6-NV (#vdm30in30 day 1). This entry was posted on May 1, 2016, in Infrastructure Design Guide. In the 1990s, I saw the dawn of the internet. I experienced the rush of hopes and dreams and possibilities. The tech bubbles, the mad scientists, the boisterous personalities that were larger than life. In the 90’s, we were living in the dreams of pioneers and frauds, cyberpunks and techno-anarchists. Scalar is betting large on software defined networking...
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VCAP5-DCD Exam Prep – part 2 (Achievement Unlocked!) |
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IT Management and Infrastructure Design. VCAP5-DCD Exam Prep part 2 (Achievement Unlocked! This entry was posted on April 14, 2015, in Training. So I’m glad I can finally say this now, but I passed the exam. I didn’t blog about my first attempt because I was pretty disheartened at the time. However, after reading through many VMTN posts that said this is actually a. Not only fail but get steamrolled by it. The answer is time management. Here it is below:. Http:/ pro.eyeqadvantage.com/mydemo. I timed each...
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