A collection of nerdy things done in nerdy ways to break, fix, and learn technology
The work day is almost over when you’re interrupted with an emergency. A certain time sensitive financial function of one of your information systems isn’t working. As luck would have it, the error is something you’ve never seen. And the business is counting on you to fix it quickly, or this could be a very…
This year was the first time I was able to attend VMworld US, and it was an amazing experience. Just before the conference, I was contacted by someone at Spiceworks and asked to write a few articles about what it’s like to attend. Since there were several articles, I wanted to list all of them…
After finding out I was approved to attend VMworld this year, I signed up to present a vBrownBag Tech Talk on VMware vSAN. Just a few weeks before the conference, I was lucky to secure an official slot on the agenda for Thursday afternoon. The idea for the talk was pretty simple. If vSAN powered…
I’ve seen a number of blogs lately recommending sessions to attend for this year’s VMworld. And then there are a number of blogs people have written for the first time attendee which have been extremely helpful. Since I seem to be deriving a ton of value from various podcasts lately, I thought I would post…
I recently had a flashback to my days as a high school math teacher. Every once in a while I would have a student tell me he / she spent a lot of time studying for a test and somehow managed to not perform well. I used to ask them what and how they studied….
What do you do when one of your most critical applications isn’t supported by your backup vendor? Do you find a new backup vendor, change applications, figure out a different solution, or cry silently in the fetal position on the server room floor? This, like any other problem, needed a solution, and this post is…
Have you ever thought you found a bug in a software product? In my case, I was almost certain I had found one but learned the problem was me. I want to share a story from this past week that helped me learn to read a bit more carefully before reporting a bug and some…
With the GA of vSAN 6.6 in late April, I was asked to give a talk at the DFW Mango Meetup back in May about all the new features in this release. The power actually went out where we were presenting, so I had to use my laptop to present with no projector. I have attached the…
A few weeks ago I was tasked with installing SuiteCRM for a proof of concept. Since the environment was primarily Windows, we went with a brand new Server 2012 R2 VM that was fully patched (environment had no license to use Server 2016). We tried following the documentation for SuiteCRM but found it to be less…
Originally posted on MangoLassi May 5, 2017 All I did was upgrade vCenter 6.0U3 to 6.5a, and things went horribly wrong. Before getting into the details, let me take you back to where our story begins. Where We Began It all started when we began setting up new hardware to completely gut and rebuild our…