Welcome to Random Short Take #100. I’m back from my holiday, but it’s only a few weeks until Christmas, so this is likely the last Random Short Take for the year. Let’s get random.
- Michael Cade recently wanted to extend the root partition of some RHEL VMs provisioned with Terraform. If you want to know how to do it, he wrote up the process here.
- Speaking of storage, Brian Moses has published the 2025 edition of his DIY NAS build. You can check it out here.
- Have you ever wondered what happens when you change the Key Provider, KMIP, Native Key Provider, NKP, for vSAN Encryption? John Nicholson has you covered in this article.
- I haven’t been paying enough attention to Solidigm, but fortunately Gina has been. Here’s her take on the 122TB announcement.
- In PR news, StorMagic has announced SvHCI 2.0.
- Meanwhile, Hammerspace and Supermicro are collaborating – you can read more about that here.
- Switching to data protection press releases, S2|DATA has released a free NetBackup reader.
- Since this is the 100th Random Short Take, I’ll finish with a random article from 10 years ago about the second album from (my favourite band) the Beastie Boys. And if you get a chance to read Dan LeRoy’s excellent book on the subject I can heartily recommend that you do so.
Bonus round. vExpert applications are now open for next year. Read more about that here. In the meantime, stay safe, don’t get shot, and see you in the new year.