Author: Rob Steele

  • VMware Photon on vCloud Air

    VMware Photon on vCloud Air

    Tonight I wanted to provision one of VMware’s newest open source projects on . Photon is a minimal Linux container host OS. It is designed to have a small footprint and boot extremely fast on VMware platforms. Photon is optimized for vSphere and validated on VMware product and provider platforms. Photon supports the following container…

  • Xbox Elite Controller

    Xbox Elite Controller

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    Announced today at #XboxE3 was a couple pieces of good news and one I have mixed feelings about. First lets get onto the good stuff !!! The first and probably the best news by far is the fact that Xbox One will now have backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 games ! I can’t stress how much…

  • Cisco Live 2015 – ABC Guide

    Cisco Live 2015 – ABC Guide

    Cisco Live is coming around again this year and in order to get all of the information to you I thought the easiest way to organize it would be to do it alphabetically. So here is my attempt to give you all you need to know about Cisco Live 2015 in ABC order… Cisco Live Aerosmith…

  • EMCElect 2015

    EMCElect 2015

    First and foremost I want to thank the EMCElect of 2014, I had a great year and learned quite a bit on utilizing social media for the greater good of the community. I’ve always had social profiles and dabbled with social media but this past year I truly learned the value and benefits of social media.…

  • EMC VSPEX BLUE KEYNOTE RECAP

    EMC VSPEX BLUE KEYNOTE RECAP

    Incase you missed the EMC VSPEX BLUE announcement earlier today, you can still access the launch presentation here. The VSPEX BLUE offering is a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance that integrates VMware’s EVO: Rail software stack with EMC’s management software. In  keeping with the EVO:Rail reference architecture, each VSPEX Blue appliance has four server nodes in a 2U rackmount…

  • VMware vCloud Air from Beta to Now

    VMware vCloud Air from Beta to Now

    I was given the privilege to test out what was formally called VMware vCHS on demand, and up until the beta phase of OnDemand you would have to size and buy chunks of resources if you were going to use the VMware vCHS service. When they announced the beta on demand program I was nothing…

  • Unboxing my Custom Scuf One Xbox Gaming Controller

    Unboxing my Custom Scuf One Xbox Gaming Controller

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    I’ve been gaming for quite awhile and am very competitive in nature, so naturally I’m always looking for ways to enhance my competitive game play. I mostly play first person shooters and even more specific, I have invested much of my time into the Call of Duty franchise. With that said, the first step into…

  • What are Clan Tokens in Advanced Warfare ?

    What are Clan Tokens in Advanced Warfare ?

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    I’m just getting started / familiar with Call of Duty Advanced Warfare Clans and noticed that there is a “Clan Tokens” metric. I’ve looked in multiple locations in the game and had to resort to search online for answers to what they are and what they are used for. I would assume they would be…

  • VMware CBT may not be giving your backups accurate data.

    VMware CBT may not be giving your backups accurate data.

    If you are currently using VMware vSphere and you are utilizing CBT (Change Block Tracking) for you backups you may be at risk of bad backups. Luckily this issue only effects vmdk files that have grown over 128GB in size, so this should narrow down your scope of affected backups. This issue can be reproduced…

  • Shellshock Bash and Bashbug Vulnerability

    Shellshock Bash and Bashbug Vulnerability

    I’m sure most of you are familiar with the Heartbleed vulnerability with OpenSSL and how it has affected most of the applications and systems across the internet. Well a new vulnerability has appeared and is potentially much worse. While this vulnerability is new to the public it has been a “bug” for over 25 years…