Raise your hand if you love to rebuild everytime your home lab manually! Noone, right? you either end up trying to not breaking it, thus defeating the purpose of the lab, or you spend insame amount of hours to fix it everytime, or to rebuilding it from scratch. So, automation in our home labs has always been a huge topic, and there are around many posts in these regards. So, why my own version? Because I found around some posts that I used to create my own automation, but none of them was perfect for my needs. I love beers, so let me use this example: like an home brewer (which I’m not, by the way) during this year I made my own recipe. It may not be the best one around, but it’s my own personal recipe. If you find it useful too, be my guest!
Tag: infrastructure
Learning how to use terraform in vCloud Director
Lately, I took the decision to do not have anymore a physical lab, even if it was already hosted and managed at a service provider, but to completely nest it inside a vCloud Director tenancy. But while I was planning the rebuild operation, I also decided it was time to make its creation process as automated as possible, and while doing so, I learned a bit about how to use Terraform.
Aggiungere uno storage Flash in un ambiente esistente
Sto leggendo ultimamente una enorme mole di informazioni riguardanti lo storage Flash. Articoli, blog, whitepaper prodotti da analisti, blogger e dalle stesse aziende che producono una qualsiasi soluzione basata sulle memorie NAND. Ognuno possiede una propria soluzione; tutte sono state concepite per risolvere gli annosi problemi di lentezza dello storage basato su dischi meccanici, ma allo stesso tempo la modalità in cui si offrono di risolvere questo problema è molto differente una dall’altra.
In ambienti già consolidati, l’introduzione di una soluzione piuttosto che un’altra è una scelta da effettuare con molta attenzione.
Add a Flash storage in an existing environment
I’m reading lately a huge amount of informations regarding Slash storage. Articles, blogs, whitepapers, written by analysts, bloggers and companies that produce and sell any solution based on NAND memories. Each of them have their own solution: all have been designed to cure the long-standing problems involving the slowness of storage based on spinning disks; but at the same time the way they solve the same problem is completely different one from the other.
In an existing environment, the introduction of a given solution is a choice requiring special care.
Schemi di risoluzione di errori comuni
Rick Blythe di VMware ha pubblicato sul suo blog www.vmwarewolf.com alcuni documenti volti alla risoluzione di problemi comuni che si riscontrano nell’infrastruttura vmware. I documenti sono organizzati in Resolution Paths, ovvero schemi modulari dove a fronte di un problema (identificato in giallo sulla sinistra) vengono proposte attività da eseguire progressivamente per…