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  • EMC Unity Install

    calendar Aug 22, 2016 · 2 min read · emc unity  ·
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    I was fortunate to do my first EMC Unity install today (Unity 300 specifically), and Unity follows the path of the VNXe installation sequence, pretty easy. This blog post is about as short as the Unity install is 🙂 Initializing the Unity array uses the ‘ _same’_Connection Utility that the VNXe uses, though the Unity …


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  • Week Wrap-up, vExpert and Home Again…

    calendar Aug 19, 2016 · 2 min read · uncategorized  ·
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    What a week we’ve had, and really I mean Yesterday! Finally home after a 3rd straight week in NY doing some fun installs for one of our partners. Being home in SC in the summer always feels good. Like being in an oven good. We started off the morning with the announcement from Nutanix and Cisco that Nutanix now runs on …


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  • Deploying NSX in a Home Lab – Part 2

    calendar Apr 1, 2016 · 6 min read · nsx uncategorized  ·
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    It’s been over 6 months since I last had NSX working in my home lab, and with a rebuild I decided it was time to wrap up Part 2 of my NSX in a home lab blog post. In Part 1 of my Deploying NSX series, we covered the prep of NSX in the environment, including deploying the NSX Manager appliance, deploying NSX Controllers …


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  • Deploying NSX in a Home Lab – Part 3

    calendar Apr 1, 2016 · 10 min read · uncategorized  ·
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    Onto the Logical Router…. In Part 1 of my Deploying NSX series, we covered the prep of NSX in the environment, including deploying the NSX Manager appliance, deploying NSX Controllers and vSphere host preparation. In Part 2 this part of the series, we covered the creation of Logical Switches and our NSX Edge, which …


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  • Changes in 2016

    calendar Jan 18, 2016 · 3 min read · goals uncategorized  ·
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    It’s been well over a month since the last post, and while I’ve had many ideas on topics since the last one, nothing has come to fruition! I wrapped up a busy 2015, with hopes to knock out a few posts during the Christmas break, then the New Year break, and now we’re over halfway thru January and my whiteboard hasn’t …


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  • FEX Topologies for Nexus

    calendar Nov 19, 2015 · 4 min read · cisco-nexus fabric-extender fex uncategorized  ·
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    I’m a big an of the Cisco Fabric Extenders when it comes to getting more ports in a data center topology, I like the easy of management and simple layout for getting connections onto the FEX. However, after speaking with a few coworkers and friends, I came to the conclusion that the supported FEX topologies are still …


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  • Trick to Horizon View EUC Access Point deployed

    calendar Nov 14, 2015 · 1 min read · euc horizon-view rest-api uncategorized  ·
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    Finally!! I’ve been trying to get the Horizon View EUC Access Point deployed in my home lab for a while now. No matter how I did it, I could just not get the Access Point to work correctly. I love the idea of the Access Point, being a simple ‘if it breaks, redeploy it’ method, but it really was making me wonder just …


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  • Installing ManageEngine OpUtils on CentOS 7

    calendar Nov 13, 2015 · 4 min read · linux oputils uncategorized  ·
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    Background I’ve been using ManageEngine’s OpUtils product for a few years now for IP Address Management (IPAM). While it has a lot of other great features, I’ve really liked the way they do IPAM. Yes, Microsoft has IPAM now built into Windows, but I’ve never liked the setup of the Windows IPAM configuration, and the …


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  • Data Center Power 101

    calendar Oct 27, 2015 · 1 min read · power uncategorized  ·
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    I’m always having to look up power connectors when quoting equipment or reviewing with a customer, to make sure that PDU’s have the appropriate receptacles. I always feel like the information provided by equipment providers doesn’t match up with what’s on the PDU or what the customer states they have. On the Packet …


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  • Deploying NSX in a Home Lab - Part 1

    calendar Oct 22, 2015 · 5 min read · home-lab nsx vsphere  ·
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    I’m a fan of NSX. Ever since I deployed it for the first time, and got it working, I realize the power, AND ease of what it would provide. I’ve had VMware NSX deployed in my lab for a while now, but I wanted to migrate my vSphere environment over to utilizing NSX fully for all VM’s, minus vCenter, the PSC, etc. At the …


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Mike Dent

Field CTO by day, dog dad, bourbon enthusiast, and driveway workout partner with my wife by night, helping organizations modernize IT without losing their sanity.
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