If you haven't head about Folding at Home yet, it is project that utilizes the community's extra compute to allow disease research computations to occur faster and cheaper. I heard about it from Amanda Blevins and William Lam on Twitter. There is a nice write-up on the Office of the CTO Blog about it as... Continue Reading →
Recently I was working on a project to streamline virtual machine images for clustered databases. I was using Packer to create the base images and Terraform to deploy them for new requests. This all runs via Linux containers that do not have PowerCLI installed (though I could ask to get it installed). The issue I... Continue Reading →
One major challenge when migrating from Lab Manager to vCloud Director is getting all of your VM Templates, Library entries, and needed configurations migrated across. When I first looked at this it there was a partially scripted process using perl code that was long and very hard to understand. I found it was better to... Continue Reading →
I've been very impressed with Nimble Storage since using a CS220 for a project last May and running performance tests against it. We purchased a CS240G shortly after. If you haven't checked out what they're doing with SSD I highly recommend you do. We just purchased a CS220G to compliment our CS240G and I decided... Continue Reading →
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