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I Love the VMware vCenter Server Appliance 4 Aug 2013 | 11:36 pm
Most things in my life that I think are good & excellent are things I started out being very critical of, or at the least greatly disliking. Some of my best friends were some of the most annoying peop...
The Canonical List of Hypervisors That Suck 24 May 2013 | 12:20 pm
A recent, uh, discussion on Twitter reminded me that, just like operating systems, all hypervisors suck in some way. Or, at the very least, people complain about each one, and how they cost money, or ...
Shameless Self Promotion – Active System & OpenStack Edition 10 May 2013 | 12:49 pm
I’m continuing to write over at The Virtualization Practice, and it’s been fun so far. Those of you following what I’ve been doing have probably seen me take a real turn towards converged infrastructu...
SELinux & Return On Time Invested 7 May 2013 | 11:06 am
I’m a little behind on my reading, but I wanted to address Major Hayden’s blog posts about disabling Security-Enhanced Linux, or SELinux, which brings mandatory access control to Linux. Mandatory acce...
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Wish List 16 Apr 2013 | 01:04 am
It looks like TechCrunch & USA Today blew an embargo on the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 beta due to be released, and now lots of places are getting in on the action. I thought it’d be a good time to u...
Shameless Self Promotion – VCE, TVP, and 787 Edition 13 Apr 2013 | 01:09 am
My first-ever post as a member of The Virtualization Practice is up. I’m a little slow, I know: Digesting The Latest VCE News: Vblock 100 and Vblock 200 wherein I criticize Vblocks for not having very...
VMware vCenter Server Appliance & NTP 3 Apr 2013 | 02:13 am
If you’re trying to configure NTP on the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) 5.1 builds 799730, 880472, or 947940 according to the official documentation you might be seeing what I’m seeing: vcente...
Why Your April Fools Post Isn’t Funny 1 Apr 2013 | 08:53 pm
Ah yes, April 1. The day I wipe all my news feeds and wait for April 2. “Why?” you ask. Here are the general problems with the posts I’ve seen so far this morning. A corporate prank post announces a f...
Preparing Linux Template VMs 26 Mar 2013 | 10:18 am
Dan over at Bashing Linux has a good post on what he does to prep his template VMs for use with Puppet. He’s inspired me to share how I prepare my Linux VMs to become a template. He’s got a few steps ...
RSS & Punctuated Equilibrium 16 Mar 2013 | 12:45 am
All this talk about RSS & the social media ecosystem evolving now that Google Reader is end-of-life has me thinking of Niles Eldredge & Stephen Jay Gould’s 1972 groundbreaking work, Punctuated Equilib...
