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 …
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Optimizing Your PLEX Client for Direct Play
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 …
Read More »Configuring vSphere Networking With Tintri Storage – Back to Basics
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 …
Read More »How To Build The Ultimate PLEX VPS Using Google Drive
It’s no surprise that so many people use PLEX these days. The one challenge I have had thus far is providing a decent server that my friends can access without the limitations of my upstream bandwidth. While PLEX Pass gets you a Plex Cloud server, to be honest, the implementation …
Read More »It’s Not You FaceBook…It’s Me: How To Really Leave The FaceBook Matrix
Many people think about breaking up with Facebook regularly. More people since the Cambridge Analytica information has come out. Personally I have been starting to question its value to me personally for some time now. Originally, I started the account to “stay in touch” with friends and family. Then I …
Read More »Tintri Use Case: Synchronous Replication Pod Architecture
A few weeks ago I wrote about how easy it is to set up Tintri Synchronous Replication groups. Last week I was at some customer sites not only discussing the feature but talking about various use cases for it. There are a few that came to mind but I …
Read More »Understanding The Tintri Networking Connection Options
Late last year Tintri announced the new EC6000 and T1000 platform to customers. One thing that I have noticed in some of the various support tickets is that many of the root cause issues have actually been upstream networking issues, or simply a lack of networking validation at the time …
Read More »The Ease Of Setting Up And Using Tintri Synchronous Replication
I realized today that I have not actually blogged yet about the Tintri Synchronous Replication feature that was released a few months back. I decided to jump back into the lab to show people just how easy this is to use. What Tintri has built it’s base on has always …
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