Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F+ BIOS Password Bypass
Prelude (if you just want the “how-to” scroll down) Boy oh boy. As my lab grows and grows I was receiving “Fully-automated DRS-enabled cluster has CPU contention” messages from vROPS every night and occasionally during the day. Of course for a lab it doesn’t matter much, but I do have some workloads that I care about behind NSX-T which can be touchy with contention and can yield weird results. I am...
vThinking Aloud: Publish Content Library to S3 for Cross-Region/Cross-Account Replication
What if you could publish your Content Library directly to AWS S3 and then Cross-Region Replicate it for better availability? Come read my thoughts on the topic!
New packet slinger for the lab – Nexus N3K-C3048TP-1GE
Adding a Cisco Nexus 3K to my lab is exciting, but check this article out so you understand caveats upgrading firmware!
The Little R620 that Could – 40TB ZFS/ESXi in 1U!? Part 1
Check out this article where we build a 1U box capable of housing 40TB worth of storage while also serving as a serious ESXi host!
832 TB – ZFS on Linux – Configuring Storage: Part 3
Probably one of the more technical blog entries I’ve made, this one guides you through setting up the “ZFS” portion of “ZFS on Linux”
832 TB – ZFS on Linux – Setting Up Ubuntu: Part 2
As you’ve probably guessed, this post is going to cover installing the OS in the case of my ZFS on Linux build(s). This is heavily subjective. There are right and wrong ways of doing things, but there is also a ton of “yeah, that’ll work” in the middle. There are Linux admins out there who, first things first, will change the terminal colors, unify UIDs and GIDs across multiple systems, create aliases for...
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I am a Sr. Systems Engineer by profession and am interested in all aspects of technology. I am most interested in virtualization, storage, and enterprise hardware. I am also interested in leveraging public and private cloud technologies such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and vRealize Automation/vCloud Director. When not working with technology I enjoy building high performance cars and dabbling with photography. Thanks for checking out my blog! 
