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Apr
8thNew UBER Model : UBER VNX (NFS) v1
I am crazy heads down on a massive EMC World 2011 project right now. One bad side effect is I have not had time to keep up with the stuff I normally do on the side for EMC. This includes updates to the UBER VSAs (virtual storage appliances). I did get one *internal* one done recently but nothing for my community. Yet, almost a month ago, one of the teams behind the EMC VNX released a VSA for it. I helped do some testing and built an UBER version but did not have time to finish testing and bug fixing. The good news is I got my head enough above water on my main projects to dedicate some time today to squash the last big bug and finish this VSA. So I present for your free (unsupported) use: the EMC UBER VNX (CIFS/NFS) VSA v1. Details: First off, NFS/CIFS only. Long story on this but this VSA only has this enabled. The engineering teams have a multiprotocol(and much more) version but it is not quite ready for public yet (though it is coming). New VNX Unisphere. Looks even better. Cool new stuff and even slicker arrangement. One datamover only. Think of this version 1 as the beginning of a new series. I have not had the time to make the multi-DM version yet. Same greatness as before (Network auto add, storage auto add, quick wizard setup). And some caveats: I tested everything I could but this is going to be [...]
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Feb
16thVirtual Selection : Cloud Constructs for Rapid Prototyping/Testing
Check out that title. Pretty awesome way to sound smart, right? Well this blog post is another one of my long winded ones and concerns my recent 6 week side-project. So a little warning in advance: This is a long read and a minder-bender in spots. Have a hot or cool drink and some time before you start. I think you will enjoy the ending. The Idea I am a firm believer that virtualization and cloud computing are creating new paradigms to approach innovation, operation, and execution within information technology. I find myself inspired by ideas and concepts that would be impossible before the advent of virtualization as a common approach to logical abstraction of x86 compute, storage, and networking. In my feeble mind, I see endless possibilities not only in automation. I also see possibilities in creating intelligent systems; able to respond in way much more organic that we may have thought possible. It is from this belief that this new idea came to me. The lifecycle of applications and infrastructure has been both very a manual and managed process. Creation, changes, and death (decommissioning) are all things that can be automated; but require prerequisite knowledge to orchestrate correctly. You would specifically know the quantity, scope, and configuration of physical or virtual servers prior to building for an application. Likewise, configured settings and metadata for the application would have been tested and discovered through intense integration and regression cycles by development/quality teams beforehand. All of this would be wrapped [...]
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Jan
15thFistful of Cloud : Interactive Cloud Demo
This project start to finish was just over one week. I had a three day birthday weekend where I did the bulk of the work and then spent evenings till early AM finishing this up. And without a doubt this was the most fun to create. Really this blog post is a really a *video* blog post so without further ado I present:
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Sep
28thYou Really Like Me : Big Thanks
I thought long and hard how to write this post. I actually thought about not writing it and just creating some tool or something to say thanks (I’ll do that also). Yesterday via the vChat video podcast Eric Siebert, Simon Seagrave, David Davis, and special guest John Troyer announced the winners of the Top 25 VMware blog poll. After an awesome introduction by Dr. Steven Herrod, they went through each of the 25 winners in order. I just about fell out of my chair when Nickapedia.com was mentioned as #24. The comments about me were gracious and honestly a little embarrassing. I am happy I am perceived that way but have no idea how the heck I got here I really don’t know the proper way to react other than to say thank you to every single person who voted for me. My hope is that your votes won’t go unrewarded and I promise to work extra hard to provide great content here for you to read/use/download. My goal all along has been to inspire others to do original things and think about stuff in a new way. I take the results of this voting to be a sign that I am heading in the right direction. So once again I want to thanks everyone who voted (and not just for me), Eric Siebert, Simon Seagrave, David Davis, John Troyer, Dr. Steven Herrod, Chad Sakac and my vSpecialist teammates, and the entire VMware community. It is kind of cool to a [...]
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Jul
12thShow And Tell : First vSphere Plugin for WordPress!
I can’t wait to see what crazy stuff you come up with next… That was something Chad Sakac told me a few months ago. Back before my latest Celerra VSA version (get it here), or my UIM appliance (sorry that one is vSpecialists eyes only right now). I really have not done anything off the wall recently. Most of my day to day effort is dedicated to absorbing the information fire-hose that my team deals out on a daily basis. I have a couple of side projects I have been wanting to catch up on but they are all to big to start at the moment. And to be honest it has been getting to me. I like contributing to the vSphere community and it has been a while (in my head at least) since I released something for that purpose. So in that spirit I had a brainstorm Friday evening (2 days ago). I had been working on my blog and had a sudden crazy idea… What if there was a WordPress plugin that would display stats from my vSphere home lab or work? Wouldn’t that rock?? Turns out there isn’t one. Or at least there wasn’t one till till now. After a weekend of coding I am happy to present the first WordPress Plugin for VMware vSphere: WP-vSphereStats If you are super observant you may have noticed the plugin is actually running in the sidebar on the left. Basically the way it works is pretty simple. The WP-vSphereStats [...]
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Jul
12thNew Author : Travers Nicholas
I am excited to announce a new author on Nickapedia.com: Travers Nicholas. Travers is extremely well respected within the team. He has a passion for technology with a strong focus on cloud computing design. Check out his BIO here: Travers Nicholas And his first Nickapedia.com post here: Geek Week : How to build an empire in 6 days We have one more author starting soon as well. If you are interested in becoming an author please contact me at nick *(at)* nicholasweaver.com. .nick
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