Author Archives: snoopj
An Azure Stack Primer for vSphere Folk
Over the last year, I’ve been involved in a journey that is changing my core competency in the technology industry. My employer, a managed service provider, has been working with Microsoft in the Early Adopter Initiative in their hybrid cloud … Continue reading
One Small Piece of Career Advice
Normally, especially this time of year, I would be pumping out a blog post about the latest things I’ve seen at some trade show (specifically, VMworld). However, this year, my family gave me a great idea and instead of spending … Continue reading
Old Dogs Learning New Tricks
Old Dogs The saying goes “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”. Certainly, all of us have found examples of this to be true. Otherwise this statement would not still be in use to this day. However, what if … Continue reading
The Dawn of a New Networking Era
Preface: I recently attended a Tech Field Day event (Tech Field Day Extra – Cisco Live 2017) and while the event is put on my Gestalt IT, I was not paid nor received any sort of reimbursement from Gestalt IT … Continue reading
Tech Field Day 14 Preview – Datrium
Most of my peers know that I’m not one to dig deep into many nuances of storage. I consider storage to be a necessary evil in which there will always be a surly storage administrator to give me the runaround on … Continue reading
Why I’m Heading to OpenStack Summit – An Architect Perspective
The other day I was presented with a question from someone in my office. They had seen a LinkedIn update I had posted about being invited to Tech Field Day 14 and that I was going to OpenStack Summit. I … Continue reading
Cisco UCS Director and the PowerShell Agent – Part 5
In this blog post, we will finally work our way up to what I’ve tried to accomplish with a combination of PowerShell, Cisco UCS Director’s northbound APIs, and the concept of parallel processing with workflows in UCS Director. The Assumptions … Continue reading
Cisco UCS Director and the PowerShell Agent – Part 4
In this blog post, we will be going over some advanced use cases of PowerShell with Cisco UCS Director and the PowerShell Agent. We will go over a scenario in which we need multiple bits of data returned from a … Continue reading
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Observations on Blame Cultures and the S3 Outage
One would think that this was scripted the way it happened, but I can assure you, that was not the case. I’m in the middle of reading a book (a really good book on blame cultures; I highly suggest a … Continue reading
Cisco UCS Director and the PowerShell Agent – Part 3
In this blog post, we will be discussing how we can use the Cisco UCS Director macros (also known as variables) from either workflow inputs or from task outputs. We will also show how these macros can be passed as … Continue reading
