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  • New Blog, New Thought Process: Personal Growth Focus

    calendar May 1, 2023 · 3 min read · blog-migration personal-growth nutanix nc2 creativity  ·
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    It took me a while, but I finally migrated the blog from my original hosted Ghost platform to a new one, which hopefully will give me a good burst of energy to update some content! I decided to move away from etherbacon.com to a more personalized blog, mikedent.io. One area that I wanted to spend more focus time on …


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  • Football to .Next: Conference Season Ahead

    calendar Feb 13, 2023 · 1 min read · nutanix conference next-conference networking certification  ·
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    As we wrap up the Super Bowl and realize that football (both College and Pro's) is over (I can't get on board with the USFL just yet), it's time to look to something else! I just wrapped a great week of interaction and passing not one but two cert exams, it's a week that get's me amped up about what comes next! As I …


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  • Goodbye 2022, Hello 2023: Year-End Reflections

    calendar Dec 14, 2022 · 3 min read · year-review egroup cohesity career partnerships  ·
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    Just a quick post, but 2022 has been a great year on many fronts! As we move faster to the end of the year, I always like to reflect back on what was achieved. Getting to spend this week with one our Account Executives in the DC area engaging with our Customers and discussing their goals, 2023 roadmap and other …


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  • FMCv 7.2 Upgrade Gotchas on AHV

    calendar Jul 1, 2022 · 1 min read · cisco firepower fmc ahv nutanix troubleshooting  ·
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    Posting this more as a note to myself as a reminder and to also read the release notes a bit more carefully! After recently going thru an upgrade of the Firepower Management Center from 7.0.x to 7.2 FMCv, specifically on the Nutanix AHV platform I ran into a bug where the VM would not boot after the upgrade. While the …


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  • Zerto Linux ZVM - Finally Available!

    calendar Jun 8, 2022 · 3 min read · zerto replication linux disaster-recovery vsphere  ·
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    Finally, Zerto has released a Linux based appliance for the Zerto Virtual Manager role. Finally! Now to be clear, I don't mean to use the term finally in a negative sense with Zerto, more of a sense of happiness that it's now available with the latest release of Zerto 9.5. Since there's still some limitations around …


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  • Mastery in 2022: Growth and Platform Migration

    calendar Feb 24, 2022 · 2 min read · career egroup platform-migration leadership  ·
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    Well, it's been exactly a year since the last blog post to this site. Oh, and it's also taken me a full year to migrate the blog from a self-hosted Wordpress site hosted by Amazon Lightsail, over to Ghost. No, it didn't take a year to migrate, it just didn't go as smooth as I wanted - I blame myself. So let's catch up, …


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  • Elevating Nutanix + eGroup Partnership in 2021

    calendar Feb 24, 2021 · 2 min read · nutanix partnership egroup business strategy  ·
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    It’s been a while since I last published a blog post. You know, 2020 got in the way big time. Lots of excuses there for not finding the time to write some content… While 2020 was an interesting year for all of us, the train didn’t stop rolling here at eGroup. We continued delivering speed and simplicity with Nutanix to …


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  • Saved by Pure Storage: Ransomware Recovery Success

    calendar Feb 24, 2021 · 3 min read · pure-storage ransomware disaster-recovery data-protection security snapshots  ·
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    This past weekend, I got to experience with another customer an unexpected intrusion, one of the worst I’ve honestly experienced in my years. Once I was onsite and got to see the level of sophistication on this attack, I realized that we had our work cutout for us. Backup solution, gone… User Files, hijacked… VMFS …


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  • Finding Your Normal in Disruption

    calendar Mar 24, 2020 · 5 min read · personal resilience community remote-work adaptation  ·
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    Uncertainty. I think we can all relate to this definition right now. We’ve all got our schedule; we wake up, go thru a routine. Maybe you’re a gym person in the morning, or get out and enjoy nature for a few miles. Maybe you really enjoy that first cup of coffee and the newspaper. Maybe it’s breakfast with friends once …


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  • Nutanix CE Refresh with Internal SSD Upgrade

    calendar Feb 17, 2020 · 3 min read · nutanix community-edition ahv home-lab ssd upgrade  ·
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    It’s been a while since I’ve gotten any fresh content on this blog, hopefully I’ll get some content ideas to keep a regular cadence of updates going. While I was updating the cabling on the garage lab, I realized it had been a while since I had done anything on my CE lab from a version perspective, in fact the last …


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Mike Dent

Field CTO with a passion for making IT modernization actually manageable for organizations. Outside of work, I'm splitting time between driveway workouts with my wife, adventures with our dogs, and appreciating fine bourbon - because balance matters in both life and technology.
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