Larry Smith Jr.

Exploring and sharing practical insights on virtualization, cloud technologies, automation, and DevOps. My mission is to empower others to build, automate, and innovate with confidence.

Everything Should Be Virtual - Virtualization, Automation, Infrastructure

Homebrew NAS for vSphere

December 15, 2014 17 minute read

So for the past 4 years or so I have been running Nexenta 3.x for my lab NAS; which has been working great, but I was at a point of having to rebuild my late...

Cisco ASA Logstash Parsing

December 11, 2014 less than 1 minute read

I recently had an opportunity to get around to creating some Cisco ASA parsing for logstash to detect some abnormal activity on the network. So now that I ha...

Nexenta Jumbo Frames

December 5, 2014 1 minute read

I Wanted to go through and enable jumbo frames for my lab iSCSI storage which is running on Nexenta CE (For about 4 years now). So how do you do this? Login ...

VMware NSX - L2 Bridge Gateway Whiteboarding

November 5, 2014 less than 1 minute read

I wanted to share this whiteboarding session as my first attempt. I am trying a new platform that I have been wanting to explore and hope it is beneficial. I...

PFSense Snort Logstash

October 27, 2014 less than 1 minute read

I have been working on getting some detailed logging from Snort logs generated through PFSense and thought I would share them. This can also be modified to w...