My many ramblings
Nutanix CE 5.6 I have been running Nutanix CE at home for quite a while now and the new version has just dropped so I had to try it out. I decided to destroy the current ( Single Node ) Cluster that I was running and start again. This Continue Reading
Nutanix Command List This is a list of Nutanix commands I have found useful. Its here as a reference and if i need a command more than a few times ill generally add it here. CLI ncli cluster get-domain-fault-tolerance-status type=node ( Checks if all of the storage components meet Continue Reading
AWS Lightsail I have been running this blog on-top of some of my Infrastructure at home but the performance ( due to my connection) has never been stunning. So I decided to move it over to an AWS Lightsail instance to investigate more about the newer VPS service from Amazon Continue Reading
AWS Status Page – Enhancements In a previous post, I deployed a basic AWS status page. The tool I deployed lambstatus supports pulling metrics from AWS Cloudwatch and displaying them. As part of my personal development, I thought I would include this on my status page. I managed to get Continue Reading
Nutanix Life Cycle Manager (LCM) With the introduction of AOS 5 Nutanix introduced Life Cycle Manager (LCM), something that Is one of the best but least known Nutanix features. Put simply its part of the Nutanix update mechanism but for dealing with hardware rather than the software components. To me Continue Reading
AWS for Beginners Part 1 I am hoping to get back into doing some AWS stuff over the next couple of months. I am a huge fan of some of the tools and technology they have built. It’s not perfect and its often not well understood by people lifting and Continue Reading
AWS – Serverless Serverless is one of those stupid names within IT that doesn’t really explain whats going on. Its led to the comical meme below But buzzword bingo aside what is it and what can you do with it? Well, my AWS cert is due to expire shortly and I Continue Reading
Cloudflare – What is it and why would I care ? I have been using Cloudflare for a long time. It is one of my goto services and I use it to protect all of the public services I run for myself and other sites/ organizations. The basic premise of Continue Reading
I have been meaning to post around some of lab setup for a while. Although it changes frequently at present its as below. I will add some pics when I have tidied up the lab/cables My primary lab storage is all contained within a HP Gen8 Microserver. Currently Configured: 1x INTEL Continue Reading
I ran a Nutanix CE server at home for a little while when it first came out. However due to the fairly high requirements, it didn’t make sense to me to continue running it at home. This was compounded by the fact that I have many clusters to play with at Continue Reading