It seems that the blade server market grew at a nice clip in Q3 according to IDC as reported by Kevin Houston at Blades Made Simple. I wonder how long this will continue? With VSAN and associated technologies, blades don’t really make sense to me. Maybe they won’t be as big a deal as they are made out to be?
I’ve been working a lot with Microsoft Word lately and quite frankly I hate it. I’m not sure how but I managed to stumble upon this blog post by Charlie Stross giving a good history lesson on Office and detailing the pain it has inflicted. Due to recently working with GitHub md files, I’m thinking one of the Markdown flavours would be easier to use.
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The Internet Fishing Trawler: YAY Networking! Edition
Over at Network Janitor, Kurt Bales has a fantastic blog post on the “py-junos-eznc” Python library. It uses NETCONF for communication. Not everything out there uses REST APIs it seems…
Speaking of programming, Cisco have announced their GitHub repo for the new Nexus 9k series. Well worth the look and I look forward to seeing it build out over time.
Still at Cisco, the “Data Center and Cloud” blog has a post on Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager (DCNM). Could be interesting.
The Internet Fishing Trawler: What Really Matters Edition
Brian Madden has a great post on Windows desktop management. I’d argue that the utility of “curating” a Windows environment is no where near what it once was. Do we really care that all users have the same background or that the notification area shows all icons? I doubt it. Perhaps we need to quantify the cost of all these configuration elements? Now that would be interesting!
The VMware PowerCLI blog has a good post on how to use the tagging feature with PowerCLI. Unfortunately the glaring omission is the ability to create new tags with PowerCLI, word is it is being worked on though.
The Internet Fishing Trawler: Nested Edition
For those using Nested ESXi, Andreas Peetz over at VMware Front Experience shows how you can use his great tool to turn the ESXi VMware Tools into a package suitable to put inside the installer. I’ve requested that they consider releasing the VIB as a bundle to make it even easier.
Jonathan Medd has a blog post with his Puppet module “skeleton” creator using PowerShell. Even if you aren’t interested in Puppet you might enjoy reading some PowerShell.
The Internet Fishing Trawler: Wall Decoration Edition
- Thanks to Vladan Seget over at Vladan.fr there are some cool new posters to hang on your wall. Poster one is [Hyper-V 2012 R2 architecture] (http://www.vladan.fr/windows-server-hyper-v-2012-r2-poster/) and poster two is [vSphere 5 memory management and monitoring] (http://www.vladan.fr/vmware-vsphere-5-memory-management-and-monitoring-poster/).
- This is quite the head scratcher for you SMB folks, when you get the Silver level competency you lose the ability to log business critical tickets. This seems like yet another salvo in Microsoft’s war on SMBs to me…
- In potentially interesting future developments news, Seagate have come out with their Kinetic Open Storage Vision. Basically they want to have each hard drive network connected so that they can all work together as a giant scale-out system. [Robin Harris at StorageMojo has the details] (http://storagemojo.com/2013/11/21/seagates-kinetic-open-storage-vision/).
- If you are looking at virtualising SQL on VMware Eric Sloof has [the details on a free VMware training course] (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2519-Free-e-learning-course-Virtualizing-Microsoft-SQL-Server-2012-with-VMware-Fundamentals.html).
- VMware have released version 5.5 of VDP with some cool new enhancements. [The vSphere Blog has all the details] (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/11/vdp-advanced-5-5-ga.html).