Have you heard of Tanium?
Tanium is the smart phone of security and cyber hygiene. If we did not know any better, we would still be be using an actual camera to take pictures, or…
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September 13, 2021
VMware vSAN 7 Update 2 – Disk Format Error
Have you upgraded to ESXi 7 update 2 yet, or at least considering to do so? If you have, and you are levering vSAN, then you probably noticed a disk…
September 7, 2021
Docker Containers Troubleshooting
What started as a Linux VM with disk partition out of space, quickly escalated to the application going down, what did you operations guys do?! No worries, let me just…
September 1, 2021
Secure your Cohesity cluster with Okta
Are you currently a Cohesity and Okta customer? Want to further secure your backups data in case an administrator account gets compromised? Of course you do! Any little thing that…
August 31, 2021
9000 MTU AKA Jumbo Frames – Yey or Nay?
Is this risk still worth the reward? A lot of products out there still give you an option to set your preferred MTU size. In the past, when 1GB was…
August 30, 2021
Pure FlashBlade and Windows Servers – Maximum TCP Ports
Do you have a high performance NAS, but are not getting the throughput that you expected on Windows Servers? Have you checked to make sure that your TCP default timeout…
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August 26, 2021
VMware vSphere ESXi – Virtual Machine Best Practices
I feel like this is a beat up topic, but it honestly is my one of my favorites sessions every year during VMworld (SQL best practices to be more precise,…
August 17, 2021
Pure Storage FlashArray – Is your bandwidth balanced?
After my last post, I felt like this follow up was necessary! Are you the Storage Admin and you do not have access to the VMware environment (wait, whut?!)? Or…
August 10, 2021
VMware ESXi Round Robin Path Selection with Pure Storage
Are you a VMware shop and you are currently using Pure Storage? In case you missed their best practices guide, I wanted to provide you with a simple command to…
August 9, 2021
Nutanix Nodes – Initial Configuration in non-flat network
Do you have a complex network (IPv6 disabled, IGMP snooping disabled, etc) and you do not want to make the required changes for the node auto-discovery to be seamless? Not…
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August 5, 2021