Working and living in the IT-World
Earlier this year Synology sent me a DS923+ to review and test. Thanks again to Synology for making this possible, it is much appreciated. In part one of this series, I did the initially unpacking, set up, and getting the NAS ready. You can read part one here.
In this post I will focus on setting up LUNs, connecting it to my existing VMware Hosts and testing the snapshot function of the LUNs. Let’s get started…
Continue reading “Synology DS923+ NAS Review, Part II – LUNs and Snapshots”
I’ve been working with a Synology DS1621+ for a some time now (Thanks to Synology for providing it), and had a great experience with it. At this point it is running an integral part of my Homelab as well as servicing all the different devices floating around at home. After a recent conversation with Nick Kozup from Synology, a different model was sent to me for reviewing.
Continue reading “Synology DS923+ NAS Review, Part I”
I was part of TechField Day 27 in not-so-sunny San Jose, CA, in March (3/8-3/10). There was a great focus on emerging technologies, in particular CXL. You can read about CXL here.
One of the companies presenting was Men&Mice and their DDI solution. Men&Mice is a smaller company based out of Reykjavik. I was particularly interested in their solution; while I don’t use an Excel sheet for IP management, I’m always interested in a better way to manage DNS, DHCP, and IPAM.
Continue reading “Men&Mice DDI, the “friendly” Manager”I wrote a Tech Note Article on Bare Metal as-a-Service is Packing up the On-Premises Datacenter powered by Pure Storage and its relevance in the financial industry. I was published at GestaltIT. You can check it out here.
Cloud Field Day 14 (https://techfieldday.com/event/cfd14/) took place in sunny Silicon Valley from June 22–24, 2022. I was honored to be a delegate and could attend in person. While I encountered some challenges on my travels to San Jose from Potomac, MD (Delta flight cancellation and SW doing a pitstop for more fuel), I did make it there!
CFD14 had a heavy focus on MutiCloud, with some presentations that took me a while to understand the concepts behind it. Check out the roundtable that was recorded onsite “Multi-Cloud is Inevitable” (https://gestaltit.com/podcast/stephen/multi-cloud-is-inevitable/)
Continue reading “Lightbits Labs at Cloud Field Day 14 – Storage on Steroids!”
In November, I was honored to be invited to be a part of Cloud Field Day12 in wonderful San Jose, CA. This was the first hybrid event and the first time delegates were onsite since Covid hit the world. It was a split between onsite delegated and remote delegates from over the world. I’d highly suggest checking out TechFieldDay and Gestalt IT here and here.
We had a pretty good schedule with many excellent presentations from numerous companies. I was especially looking forward to MemVerge newest announcement of their product Memory Machine Cloud Edition. I first learned about MemVerge and their Memory Machine at TechField Day 22.
Continue reading “Cloud Field Day 12 – MemVerge Big Memory Cloud”
A while back I had a conversation with Synology and learned about their review program. After some discussion about different models for some testing scenarios I plan on doing, I received a very nice Synology DS1621+ well packaged. Currently disks are hard to come by, but I also received 4x Seagate IronWolf 4TB ST400NV008.
This blog series will go through some of the features and use case scenarios I’m planning on doing. This first part will focus on unpacking and getting the basic setup down.
Continue reading “Synology D1621+ Network Attached Storage Review Part I”
Like many others in the community I was very excited when I heard that ESXi on Arm is now general available. I heard about it first a few years back at VMworld, where a demo was shown. So, like many others I jumped to Amazon to get myself a Raspberry Pi 4 Kit. I opted to get the 8GB version, just in case.
Continue reading “ESXi on Arm, Ubuntu, WireGuard and some Veeam”I talked to ITR aka IT Reality about the challenges of a small IT shop in the IT-Space. We touched on security, backups and building a team among other topics.
Vince does a great job moderating and talking to Jim is always a highlight. Check you the podcast here
The other day after I updated my Google Pixel to Android 10 I noticed a weird error message when using our UniFi guest portal at work. After going to the portal, Chrome was complaining about an insecure certificate. We had updated our DigiCert certificate about 3 weeks ago, so this was going to be interesting to troubleshoot…
Continue reading “Google Chrome breaks Unifi Controller Guest Portal”