Archive for the ‘VMware’ Category
VMware Beaconing
I just read Beaconing Demystified: Using Beaconing to Detect Link Failures, and I have to say I am still confused. Why do this?
With 3 or more uplinks in a team, we can pin point failures of a single uplink. With 2 uplinks in a team, we can detect downstream link failure, but we don’t know [...]
Benefits of Virtualization
I’ll admit it. I was skeptical about the virtualization hype. I am not a big fan of adding overhead with no point- X on a server machine for example. The products I had played with were early on- Xen, Qemu, and other ones like that. They, frankly, sucked.
About half a year ago, though, I got [...]
Fragmented efforts
Having had a friend at a party last night tell me about some new Linux distro he was playing with, I found myself wondering… Which inevitably led to wandering. Now I am pondering why, exactly, there need to be 326 linux distros out there.
Consulting
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I am skilled in Perl, MySQL, Linux administration, VMWare GSX/ESXi virtualization, automation, migrations, architecture design and implementation, optimization, and can pick up [...]