Slightly over 3 months in now at my first role as Technical Marketing Engineer with Rubrik, Inc and I couldn't be happier. The job itself is new things often enough, to where I don't feel bored. And my team is amazing-I couldn't ask for a more supportive group of...
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Wow, so there was a ton of activity that happened last week. VMworld 2018 US edition has now passed and was amazing. This particular one was pretty sweet for me as this marked a number of firsts for me. While I've been before, this is the first time I've played a role...
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It was with a bit of regret and a small bit of fear that I turned in my 2 weeks' notice last week. Even though I technically left Dell 2.5 yrs. ago, Dell wasn't done with me yet and decided to buy the company I moved to. So essentially, I worked for Dell in some...
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Underneath todays objective we have the following topics:
Add Layer 2 Bridging
Connect Layer 2 Bridging to the appropriate distributed virtual port group
So first let's do a little background on what we are doing and more importantly the why. Layer 2...
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So I can't take really any credit for this blog post as the original work was all done by William Lam. I have my own homelab and also maintain a few labs at work that are hidden off in their own networks. This little trick comes in real handy. Mainly because I have...
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Recovering from dual hernia surgery and changing job roles…….it's me and I'm back. Moving back into the Blueprint, we are working on Objective 2.1 – Create and Manage Logical Switches. We will be covering the following points in this blog post.
Create and...
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I know that many of you have gone through your own harrowing tales of trying to bring environments back online. I always enjoy hearing experiences of these. Why? Because these are where learning takes place. Problems are found and solutions have to be found. While my...
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Covering Objective 1.3 now we will be covering the following topics
Create Transport Zones according to a deployment plan
Configure the control plane mode for a Transport Zone
Add clusters to Transport Zones
Remove clusters from Transport Zones
So,...
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As mentioned above the next objective is preparing your environment for network virtualization. We will cover the following topics specified in the blueprint.
Prepare vSphere Distributed Switching for NSX
Prepare a cluster for NSX
Add / Remove Hosts...
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So I started this journey a while ago, I let things get in the way of me getting it, and here we are. Trying to get back on track once again. This cert has eluded me longer than it should have.
I am going to try to do a little bit of mixed media in this Blog series,...
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