23 Apr 2015
vRealize Log Insight is not a product I have had much to do with up to now, but that changed a few days ago when
I was asked to perform an evaluation of how Log Insight might help with the management and administration of VMware
Integrated OpenStack environment.
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23 Apr 2015
To see physical NIC connectivity in vSphere is nice and easy as its displayed in
vCenter console. I found however checking the link state of fibre channel HBAs
is possible but not so easy so I thought I’d detail the steps I used here.
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09 Apr 2015
Working in a technical team distributed across multiple time zones makes it difficult to collaborate
and keep everyone on the same page. I’ve used various communications tools to try and help with this
and today the team I am working with started to look at Slack. Slack seems ideal for our needs as it
provides easily searchable discussion forums and has apps available for Mac, Windows, iOS and Android,
it has a free usage model with limitations which won’t effect our working and if we grow we can extend
to a paid license.
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27 Jan 2015
On starting to look at learning using Ansible to manage Windows hosts, first step was to setup a test lab.
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22 Jan 2015
I recently came across the role SRE, I didn’t know what this was so researched it a little and found that
it refers to Site Reliability Engineers after reading around the subject here is my considered opinion.
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