I don’t think it is much of a secret that I do a lot of the back-end services work for STK Promotions, my wife’s promotional products business. This means when there is a problem that can be solved with technology it’s on me to figure out. So when Scott Driver from the vExpert community approached her and asked if vExperts ... Read More »
There have been a few posts I have seen recently on folks making moves around the industry so I guess it’s time for mine. I don’t think it is any secret to people that I am moving on from Tintri after this week. The last year was certainly a learning experience for more reasons than I think most people would ... Read More »
Note: EVERYTHING IN THIS POST IS UNSUPPORTED BY TINTRI After I did some lab work with the Minio Gateway using NFS it occurred to me that something similar could be done but using a Tintri VMstore as the target for Docker Volume persistent Storage. While this seems easy on the surface it has a lot of considerations which is why ... Read More »
Last year Tintri released the feature known as Cloud Connector which is used to offload snapshots to S3 based storage providers for long term archival. Since the feature came out the majority of the use cases I have been on have been for on premises solutions versus using actual Amazon S3 in the public cloud. Primarily this is because people ... Read More »
Ever since I jumped on the PLEX bandwagon I have been tuning, testing, tweaking, and otherwise knob-turning to see exactly how things perform. I have built my own Internal Plex Server, tested the PLEX Cloud offering and even built a couple PLEX Virtual Private Servers. All have proven to work well in different ways. Something I also am a fan ... Read More »
The interesting thing about having worked with VMware for so long and now for Tintri is that you see some of the same issues in different environments. That is what prompts most blog posts about “how to” fix or address things, and that is no different for me. In the last couple weeks I have been involved in a ... Read More »
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