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Data Management for VMware Tanzu – Getting Started

This blog post will cover deploying the infrastructure and components for Data Management for VMware Tanzu. My second blog post will cover using this infrastructure for Self-Service Database-as-a-Service. What is Data Management for VMware Tanzu? Data Management for VMware Tanzu (DMS) is a newly released solution from VMware (July 2021) providing data-as-a-service toolkit for on-demand … Continue reading Data Management for VMware Tanzu – Getting Started

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Building a Veeam Lab – a recommended architecture

This blog posts spawns from an interesting discussion between the Veeam Vanguard members on what components are needed to build an effective lab for testing out most of the Veeam features, especially with v10 around the corner. So, I’ve put together something that should hopefully work for this; I’m not really going to focus on … Continue reading Building a Veeam Lab – a recommended architecture

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Notes from the field – Penetration tests

This blog post is by no means a comprehensive guide from an expert in the cyber security area. However my previous role meant I had the pleasure of reviewing a number of customer penetration tests and from this, pretty much all of them were all exploited in the same way. So I put together some … Continue reading Notes from the field – Penetration tests

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Setting up a Nimble Secondary Flash Array from scratch

Nimble Storage have released their newest addition in the line up, the SFA, or to give its full name, the Secondary Flash Array. And in this post, we are going to look at how to set one up from scratch. Taken from the following datasheet; The Nimble Secondary Flash Array represents a new type of … Continue reading Setting up a Nimble Secondary Flash Array from scratch

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Deploy a Cisco UCS system – Part 1 – from scratch for VMware ESXi

Part 1 – Setting up Fabric Interconnect, and UCS Manager settings Part 2 – Configuring Connectivity & Setting up the policies and Service Profiles Part 3 – Deploying ESXi via KVM onto FlashFlex (SDCard) Part 4 – Upgrading the Firmware First off, huge thanks to the following posts by Rene Van Den Bedem and his Cisco UCS … Continue reading Deploy a Cisco UCS system – Part 1 – from scratch for VMware ESXi