Latest Happenings
I have been working on a ton of things lately without many posts. One big reason for this is that I have been working a lot with Openstack. This has been consuming a lot of my time lately trying to Continue reading
vSphere 5.1 Network Designs
I will be adding some vSphere 5.1 Network Design ideas in this post. I will be updating it as I create additional scenarios. These designs are based off of HP C7000 Blade Chassis’ using Flex-10 Virtual Connect. In this first Continue reading
Current NexentaStor Disk Layout
Here is a current view of how my NexentaStor NAS is configured from a disk and controller perspective. I will be modifying this some here soon. Go here to take a look at what parts were used to put this Continue reading
HP BL490G7 ESXi 5.1U1 – No adapters found During Install
So I was rebuilding some HP BL490G7 blades last week with VMware ESXi 5.1U1 and during the install it stopped with the message that there were not any network adapters detected therefore the installation would not continue. These blades had Continue reading
Random White Boarding
Doing some random whiteboarding today. Always fun to do.
Veeam thoughts
I have now been using Veeam Backup and Replication for a few months now and have to say it is a really amazing solution. During this time my thoughts along the way have changed in several ways. What I mean by Continue reading
Latest Nexenta Testing Results
So I have been running my new Nexentastor CE storage for a little more than a month now and wanted to run another IO test real quick as a sanity check. So I setup the VMware IO Analyzer again, but Continue reading
Nginx Reverse Proxy
I just wanted to throw this together real quick as I had a request this past week to look into this. I was asked to look into deploying a reverse proxy for a DMZ scenario with backend web servers not Continue reading
Veeam B&R and HP 3Par Brainstorming
Doing a whiteboard session brainstorming on new Veeam B&R and HP 3Par design. This is just a single site to an offsite location. This same philosophy will apply for each and every other site. Visio Drawing of the above Continue reading
HP BL490 PSOD ESXi5.x
I have recently had several different HP BL490 G6 and G7 servers having PSOD (purple screen of death) running ESXi 5.1. I was able to capture a screenshot this time and apparently this issue does not apply to these models, Continue reading