Category: Technology

  • Cisco Live 2014

    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…

  • EMC Avamar SSL Cert Generation

    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…

  • The Coolest Storage: EMC vFridge

    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…

  • vSphere Web Client Default Port

    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.

  • Beer Prank

    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!  

  • XtremIO Interface Deep Dive

    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.

  • VMware VDP Advanced 5.5 “Unable to find this VDP in the vCenter inventory”

    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,…

  • Google’s Data Center

    Google’s Data Center

    I’ve been in several of the largest and most secure data centers in the United States and it just occurred to me that as often as I use Google, I have never seen any of their data centers. I thought it would be fun to do some quick research and post about what I find…

  • Roundtower Wins Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the year Award

    Roundtower Wins Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the year Award

    Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur Of The Year is the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs. The unique award recognizes the significant contributions of entrepreneurs who inspire others with their vision, leadership and achievement. I made a cameo in the video: http://www.roundtower.com/awarded-ernst-and-young-entrepreneur-of-the-year-2013/ Official link to EY.com Press Release: http://www.ey.com/US/en/Newsroom/News-releases/Ernst-and-Young-announces-Entrepreneur-Of-The-Year-2013-Award-winners-in-South-Central-Ohio-and-Kentucky  

  • How Major League Baseball scales media and performance