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vRealize Network Insight with E/W or N/S

tl/dr: RFC1918 (private) addresses are categorized as E/W by VRNI by default, non-RFC1918 (public) addresses are categorized as N/S by default. You can flag private as N/S or public as E/W to ensure the reports reflect your environment. Looking over the … Continue reading

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Thin-Provision Over-subscribe and To the Cloud

I got into an argument awhile back with a client over thin-provisioning.  His argument, while valid, represented a very conservative approach while I say if you’re not living on the edge you’re taking up too much room. Thin provisioning is … Continue reading

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Outsourcing for the 21st Century

When Tom Sawyer talked his buddies in to white-washing Aunt Polly’s fence he didn’t call it outsourcing.  But he could have. To “outsource” is to go “outside” (in Tom’s case, outside of the household) and find a solution.  The latest … Continue reading

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Buzzwords in the cloud

Buzzwords in the Cloud In the 60s IBM started logically carving up their mainframes into smaller processing chunks to separate application stacks.  One larger server would look like several smaller servers and virtualization was born. In the early 80s most … Continue reading

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