FuelRod – My R&D recommendations
The Backstory One of the interesting travel accessories that I have acquired is a FuelRod. If you don’t know what a FuelRod is let me explain. Basically, it is a USB battery pack much like the free ones we get…
Category: Design Tips
How (and why) I created my blog’s facebook page
What I know about Facebook In 2004 University of Dayton students got access to Facebook. Like most other students I signed up and used Facebook pretty regularly throughout college. As my career has taken off I find myself on LinkedIn much more…
Using pfSense for multitenancy in a virtual environment
Back in the day if you wanted your servers to live a happy stress free life you sent them to a colo, a boarding school for servers in a sense. In return they got their own secure floor space, perfect…
Their rules or they won’t play!
Have you ever known someone who would only play a game by their rules? And if it came down to choosing between their rules or not playing, then they just wouldn’t play? I though that was only kid stuff but…
What I’ve learned about IT purchasing
Disclaimer: What I share with you in this article is not a secret, if you do your research you can find all of this information with the help of Google. I’ve worked in the VAR (Value Added Reseller) business for over…
Power cable considerations on the UCS Mini
This may also apply to the UCS 5108 chassis in general, but as of writing this I haven’t had a chance to check one. So here is the back of the chassis. And I figured common sense would say keep…
Power 101: Maintenance Bypass modules
So I haven’t had time to put together a Power 102 article to follow-up from the popular Power 101 article I did, but I thought I would share a little more in terms of what options you have when designing…
UCS Mini: SMB Design Architecture
Update: In an attempt to get this post up quickly, I totally missed that I had the UCS chassis connected to the Nexus switches incorrectly, so I updated the design with the proper wiring as well as switched the stencil…
Power 101 for the IT Guy
Power… it is the only thing that you will find more prevalent in a datacenter than racks, yet many times when discussing upgrades and new installations it’s the part that no one ever mentions. I assume this is for one of a few reasons:…
Spring Cleaning Tips for your VMware Environment
I just wanted to throw out some tips that I run into from time to time in customer environments. These are just meant to be a quick reminder of the things that I find are missed during installations. If you…