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How To Configure NSX IPSEC VPN With AWS, Azure, and GCP
The last few weeks I have been putting together a new lab for my team at Cohesity to use for live demos. Part of the overall design was to allow for VPN connections to the various clouds that...
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One Man’s View Of IT Burnout
There has been a lot of threads in recent years about “IT Burnout” amongst people in the technology circles. Until recently, I guess I never really put much thought into it. You know, you wake up,...
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Free Advice On Debt Reduction
I am not a financial advisor, or a wizard. What I do have is a lot of common sense, and a half decent head on my shoulders. There are a lot of “pros” out there that cover this but I wanted to just...
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Why I Will Never Go back To WordFence
The last week has been more than a struggle dealing with WordFence. I have five identical server builds that are all failing their scanning process with either out of memory or some erroneous error...
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The 2020 Cohesity vExpert Gift Progam
Every year Cohesity, like other companies that support the vExpert Program, try to do something to show their appreciation for the community. In the past there has been backpacks, last year was some...
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How to Properly Change The VMware Cloud Director Database IP
Believe it or not I ran into this problem recently. Suffice to say I realized if you deploy the VMware Cloud Director appliance with the primary and database IP on the same VLAN, some things go a...
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The Great Calendar Debate
Yesterday I posted a tweet that had a little bit of discussion so I felt a bit more context and explanation was needed. At the end of the day almost everyone in a corporate job uses technology that...
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Promotions vs Title Changes
Today was one of those “update LinkedIN” days. As of February 1st, my group all got new job titles. The post below was one of those automatic “congratulate so and so on their promotion” that the...
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Stop Trusting Spanning Backup with Your Data
This has been a difficult thing to try and wrap my head around, but the following is a story about how Spanning Backup simply DELETED all my backups from the last 3+ years. What I am going to detail...
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The Balance Between Personal and Professional
This week has been, let’s just say an interesting one. After many conversations and internalization I did think I needed to post something about this topic of personal and professional lines. I’ve...
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The Reality Of The Thin Blue Line
On May 19th Chris Oberheim lost his life in the line of duty to a previously convicted felon carrying a stolen weapon. It was a death that has rocked the community he served to the core. You may...
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Cohesity Light Board Outtakes
There are many of us that create content for our company’s channels. We always end up having some bloopers, but they are usually rarely compiled and posted. This past summer our team recorded some...
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How To Properly Install Dual Rinnai Tankless Water Heaters
I have lived in my house now that we built for just about 8 years. Something that always bugged me was the performance of the dual Rinnai RL94 units the original plumber installed. For some reason...
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Shine Bathroom Assistant Review
The Shine Bathroom Assistant first crossed my feed back in May 2021. It certainly intrigued me for a few reasons I will cover in a minute. The idea behind this system it to automatically do a job...
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Did I Let Myself Down?
I woke up today, in a sense, hating myself. I’m going to disclose something only a handful people knew about 8 months ago when I wrote the post below. Today was to be my last day. My last day working...
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The Most Common Mistake Made in VMware vSphere Networking
It seems I have had a number of the same conversations in recent weeks about a very particular topic, and some could argue a design flaw, with the most basic of VMware vSphere deployments. This has to...
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How To Migrate Single Ombi Docker Instance to MySQL/MariaDB
I’ve been a major fan of Plex since someone got me on the kick a few years back. Anyone that knows me my setup is no joke. One of the best aspects of the entire infrastructure is Ombi which is so well...
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How To Identify a Verizon Wireless Scammer
Today I got an unusual call (not a text) from Verizon Wireless, which frankly never happens, so I decided to let it go to voicemail. What I learned after the caller left the message is something I...
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How To Automate Lighting With Plex Playback
As my Plex setup and my Home Theater have evolved I am always looking for new ways to improve the usability and function of the combined experience. I actually did this a while back and just now got...
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A New Partnership Emerges for STK Promotions
Just over a year ago I wrote about a trip to Champaign Illinois to visit a friend who lost someone in the line of duty. The experience was humbling for me to say the least. In light of all the things...
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