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

Nginx Reverse Proxy

April 22, 2013 1 minute read

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...

Veeam B&R and HP 3Par Brainstorming

April 22, 2013 less than 1 minute read

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 wil...

HP BL490 PSOD ESXi5.x

April 9, 2013 1 minute read

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 th...

Updating HP C3000/C7000 using HPSUM

April 9, 2013 less than 1 minute read

After going through years of changes with the way that firmware is managed on HP c3000/C7000 blade chassis’ I have to say it is absolutely easy as can be now...

Enter to win a Free Pass to VMworld 2013

March 29, 2013 less than 1 minute read

Veeam is giving away a free pass to VMworld 2013. Enter here at a chance to win.