Yeah, I know – totally now unseasonal and inappropriate blogpost title. It’s that time of year when Eric Siebert starts the voting process for Top […]
How to get a broken server door key out of HP ML350e
Yes, I know how esoteric and specific can a blogpost get, eh? I’d only had my new HP ML350e series servers in a homelab until […]
Back To Basics: Managing a Distributed vSwitch (Part 1 of 9)
Well, its the start of a new “chapter” in the Back To Basic series. This time focusing on networking. Hang on I hear you say, […]
Hyper-V R2eality: VMs not so hot after all…
When I first got into virtualization with VMware, one of the most compelling advantages was the fact that the VM is just a process (albeit […]
Return to the homelab (Part 4)
If you have been following this series of posts for a while. You’ll know I have an issue with my new HP ML350e Gen8 servers. […]
Return of the HomeLab (Part 3)
In this 3rd (and I’m thinking final) part of the return to the homelab series I want to write about storage. I’ve followed other peoples […]
Back To Basics – Configuring Storage: PowerCLI (Part 6 of 6)
Well, this the end of my 6 part series on storage and vSphere 5.5. There’s is a part that’s “missing” all about “Vendor Storage Plug-ins”. […]
ThinkPiece: The Good Enough Delusion:
UPDATE 2: The new Volkswagen Tiguan advert sums up the idea – the tatty old-rope that’s “almost as good” the standard rope… UPDATE1: After publishing […]
Return to the Homelab (Part2) – HP ML350e Gen8
As you might know I recently quit my colocation, and moved back to homelab. I want to blog about why I picked the HP ML350e […]
Hyper-V R2eality: On the long, long road to Damascus – Hyper-V Gen1 conversion to Gen2
Acknowledgement: I’d like to recognise John Howard’s TechNet Blog series about Gen2 VMs on Windows Hyper-V 2012 R2. Specifically two posts about conversion. Without these […]