{"id":10198,"date":"2021-10-08T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T19:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=10198"},"modified":"2021-10-08T08:14:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T22:14:29","slug":"random-short-take-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-61\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #61"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short take #61.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/vmworld\/en\/index.html\">VMworld<\/a> is on this week. I still find the virtual format (and timezones) challenging, and I miss the hallway track and the jet lag. There&#8217;s nonetheless some good news coming out of the event. One thing that was announced prior to the event was Tanzu Community Edition. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lamw\">William Lam<\/a> talks more about that <a href=\"https:\/\/williamlam.com\/2021\/10\/introducing-vmware-tanzu-community-edition-tce-tanzu-kubernetes-for-everyone.html\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of VMworld news, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/viktoriousss\">Viktor<\/a> provided a great summary on the various &#8220;projects&#8221; being announced. You can read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.viktorious.nl\/2021\/10\/06\/an-overview-of-all-projects-discussed-at-vmworld-2021\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been a Mac user for a long time, and there&#8217;s stuff I&#8217;m learning every week via Howard Oakley&#8217;s blog. Check out this article covering the <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2021\/09\/18\/explainer-the-recovery-partition\/\">Recovery Partition<\/a>. While I&#8217;m at it, <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2021\/10\/06\/time-machine-presentation-at-macsysadmin\/\">this presentation<\/a> he did on Time Machine is also pretty ace.<\/li>\n<li>Facebook had a little problem this week, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudflare.com\/\">Cloudflare<\/a> folks have provided a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudflare.com\/october-2021-facebook-outage\/\">decent overview<\/a> of what happened. As someone who works for a service provider, this kind of stuff makes me twitchy.<\/li>\n<li>Fibre Channel? Cloud? Chalk and cheese? Maybe. Read Chin-Fah&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/storagegaga.com\/the-future-of-fibre-channel-in-the-cloud-era\/\">article<\/a> for some more insights. Personally, I miss working with FC, but I don&#8217;t miss the arguing I had to do with systems and networks people when it came to the correct feeding and watering of FC environments.<\/li>\n<li>Remote working has been a challenge for many organisations, with some managers not understanding that their workers weren&#8217;t just watching streaming video all day, but actually being more productive. Not everything needs to be a video call, however, and <a href=\"https:\/\/xahteiwi.eu\/resources\/presentations\/no-we-wont-have-a-video-call-for-that\/\">this post \/ presentation<\/a> has a lot of great tips on what does and doesn&#8217;t work with distributed teams.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve had to ask this question before. And Jase has apparently had to answer it too, so he&#8217;s posted an article on vSAN and external storage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/is-vsan-supported-with-x-y-z-storage\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>This is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theredhandfiles.com\/do-you-work-out-before-you-go-on-tour\/\">best response<\/a> to a trio of questions I&#8217;ve read in some time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short take #61. VMworld is on this week. I still find the virtual format (and timezones) challenging, and I miss the hallway track and the jet lag. There&#8217;s nonetheless some good news coming out of the event. One thing that was announced prior to the event was Tanzu Community Edition. 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