A guest post from Liselotte Foverskov: Lauren, first of all thanks for giving me the opportunity to be featured on the Adapting IT Blog. Yesterday I attended my first Women of Purpose event. Thank you to Kristin Heisner for arranging this for all of us busy women. Let me start by saying this was a…
Believe it or not, there are still applications that require the use of a Raw Device Mapping (RDM) if you’re going to virtualize the machine it runs on. Recently I encountered a situation where the hard disk was already formatted as a Virtual Machine Disk format (VMDK) on a Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastore in VMware. In a…
I spend a lot of time doing storage migrations to new storage arrays because the company I work for sells storage arrays. It’s actually not too difficult, and sometimes you can even do it without downtime. To read more click here.
Eyvonne Sharp Eyvonne Sharp and I talk about her transition from the SMB to the enterprise as a senior network engineer. Eyvonne gives advice to those looking to make the same move. Check out Eyvonne’s blog here and follow her on Twitter! Read her post on the transition from SMB to Enterprise on PacketPushers.
PernixData will be announcing the first release of its Flash Virtualization Platform (FVP) product on August 6, 2013. The company says FVP is the first and only hypervisor for server-side flash. Although other vendors have similar server-side flash solutions, FVP is the only solution that is currently able to create a clustered tier that allows VMware administrators to…
I haven’t been reading very many books lately. Most of my training has been coming from videos, documentation, blogs, and, of course, podcasts. In almost every podcast I’ve listened to in the past couple months the book ThePhoenix Project, by Gene Kim, has come up at least once. I decided to put it on my Kindle…
Carolyn Rowland Carolyn Rowland, an IT manager atNIST, and I talk about IT operations education, or lack there of, currently available. Carolyn is a BOD member for USENIX and is a co-chair for the Women in Advanced Computing (WiAC). Please follow Carolyn on Twitter here.
Every time I go to install VMware on a Cisco UCS C-Series server, I seem to forget something or come across a new caveat. If this sounds familiar, read these tech tips for configuring UCS with VMware vSphere. To read more click here.
Amy Lewis Amy Lewis and I chat in the middle of the social media hub at Cisco Live in Orlando about everything under the sun. We talk about community development, Cisco Live, and women in IT among other things. Check out Amy on Twitter here. Check out Amy’s other podcasts: Engineers Unplugged andGeek Whisperers.
ObjectRocket is a Database-as-a-Service company that was recently acquired by Rackspace. According to its website, “[ObjectRocket was founded] to tackle a serious deficiency in cloud infrastructure – the database.” ObjectRocket uses MongoDB as its core data store; this is apparently to aid developers. To read more click here.