Author: Rob Steele
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VMware’s Hyperconverged Infrastructure Appliance: EVO Rail
VMware EVO RAIL At VMworld 2014 this year, a new hyperconverged infrastructure appliance emerged. This appliance brings together storage, networking and compute for an easy to manage IT infrastructure. A simple and powerful appliance taking a large step in the SDDC direction. When you no longer have to manage hardware, you can focus more on applications and…
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VMware Project Mystic – MARVIN Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance
Word on the internets is: VMware is coming out with a new Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance. I plan to use this page to centralize any and all information I find out about this appliance. The converged infrastructure market will hit $17.8 billion in 2016, up from $4.6 billion in 2012. Converged infrastructure will account for 12.8 percent…
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OpenStack Icehouse Released Today
The latest version of OpenStack called Icehouse was released today. New Features in Icehouse OpenStack Icehouse has nearly 350 new features that reflect a community-wide effort to bring the voice of the user into the rapidly maturing open source cloud software platform. Key themes this release cycle have been raising the bar on testing and…
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Cisco Live 2014
Have you already registered for Cisco Live 2014 ? If you haven’t yet I recommend you do so now ! Besides all of the keynotes and tech goodies that you will get to consume you will not want to miss this years Customer Appreciation Event (CAE) featuring non other than Lenny Kravitz !!! So not only do…
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EMC Avamar SSL Cert Generation
After completing a successful root to root Avamar migration I noticed that the old SSL certs were still being used. Through some digging I finally found a very simple and easy command to update it. The gen-ssl-cert command installs a temporary Apache web server SSL cert and restarts the web server. gen-ssl-cert [–debug] [–help] [–verbose] Note: You…
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The Coolest Storage: EMC vFridge
If you went to EMCworld last year and watched Brian Gallagher’s keynote on Transforming Enterprise Storage to Create Business Value, you were one of the many that got a sneak peak of the prototype of the EMC vFridge. (If you didn’t watch it, here it is… skip to 38 minutes in) Watch on youtube The vFridge was…
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vSphere Web Client Default Port
Open a Web browser and enter the URL for the vSphere Web Client: https://hostname:port/vsphere-client. By default the port is 9443, but this can be changed during vSphere Web Client installation.
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Beer Prank
I wouldn’t mind if someone pranked me like this! A group of friends disconnect the main water line in this guys house and replace it with cold beer!
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XtremIO Interface Deep Dive
Miroslav Klivansky from the XtremIO Technical Marketing team gives a guided tour through the XtremIO GUI and shows how simple the array is to use as well as its powerful monitoring capabilities.
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VMware VDP Advanced 5.5 “Unable to find this VDP in the vCenter inventory”
A quick troubleshooting blog… I recently came across this error when deploying the VMware VDP appliance: “Unable to find this VDP in the vCenter inventory” I took a look a look at the following log file on the VDP appliance: /opt/vmware/var/log/vami/vami-ovf.log The following entries were present: [info] [process id: 4062] Hostname property is not present,…