{"id":10271,"date":"2021-12-16T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=10271"},"modified":"2021-12-15T17:13:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T07:13:26","slug":"random-short-take-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short take #65. Last one for the year I think.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First up, <a href=\"https:\/\/stevenonofaro.com\/2021\/12\/13\/replacing-certificates-in-cloud-director-10-3-1\/\">this handy article<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steveonofaro\">Steve Onofaro<\/a> on replacing certificates in VMware Cloud Director 10.3.1.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of cloud, I enjoyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architecting.it\/blog\/aws-outage-spof\/\">this article<\/a> from Chris M. Evans on the AWS &#8220;wobble&#8221; (as he puts it) in us-east-1 recently. Speaking of articles Chris has written recently, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architecting.it\/blog\/flasharray-xl-announcement\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=flasharray-xl-announcement\">his coverage<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purestorage.com\/products\/nvme\/flasharray-xl.html\">Pure Storage FlashArray\/\/XL<\/a> announcement.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Pure Storage, my friend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonKlaus\">Jon<\/a> wrote about his experience with ActiveCluster in the field recently. You can find that <a href=\"https:\/\/faststorage.eu\/consolidating-datacenters-with-pure-storage-flasharray-activecluster\/\">here<\/a>. I always find these articles to be invaluable, if only because they demonstrate what&#8217;s happening out there in the real world.<\/li>\n<li>Want some press releases? <a href=\"https:\/\/datadobi.com\/post_news\/datadobi-launches-multi-petabyte-starter-packs-to-accelerate-enterprise-class-digital-transformation\/\">Here&#8217;s one<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/datadobi.com\/\">Datadobi<\/a> announcing it has released new Starter Packs for DobiMigrate ranging from 1PB up to 7PB.<\/li>\n<li>Data protection isn&#8217;t just something you do at the office &#8211; it&#8217;s a problem for home too. I&#8217;m always interested to hear how other people tackle the problem. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffgeerling.com\/blog\/2021\/my-backup-plan\">This article<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/geerlingguy\">Jeff Geerling<\/a> (and the associated documentation on Github) was great.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lost_Signal\">John Nicholson<\/a> is a smart guy, so I think you should check out his articles on benchmarking (and what folks are getting wrong). At the moment this is a 2-part series, but I suspect that could be expanded. You can find Part 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/thenicholson.com\/benchmarking-badly-part-1-the-single-workload-test\/\">here<\/a> and Part 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/thenicholson.com\/benchmarking-badly-part-2-bad-vdi-testing-and-some-thoughts-on-how-much-vdi-resourcing-has-changed\/\">here<\/a>. He makes a great point that benchmarking can be valuable, but benchmarking like it&#8217;s 1999 may not be the best thing to do (I&#8217;m paraphrasing).<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of smart people, Tom Andry put together a great article recently on dispelling myths around subwoofers. If you or a loved one are getting worked up about subwoofers, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/avgadgets.com\/subwoofer-break-in-dispelling-the-myth\/\">this article<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I had people ask me if I was doing a predictions post this year. I&#8217;m not crazy enough to do that, but Mellor is. You can read his article <a href=\"https:\/\/blocksandfiles.com\/2021\/12\/13\/predictions-for-2022\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In some personal news (and it&#8217;s not LinkedIn official yet) I recently quit my job and will be taking up a new role in the new year. I&#8217;m not shutting the blog down, but you might see a bit of a change in the content. I can&#8217;t see myself stopping these articles, but it&#8217;s likely there&#8217;ll be less of the data protection howto articles being published. But we&#8217;ll see. In any case, wherever you are, stay safe, happy holidays, and see you on the line next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short take #65. Last one for the year I think. First up, this handy article from Steve Onofaro on replacing certificates in VMware Cloud Director 10.3.1. Speaking of cloud, I enjoyed this article from Chris M. Evans on the AWS &#8220;wobble&#8221; (as he puts it) in us-east-1 recently. Speaking of articles Chris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1027,874,25,1293,692,5,4],"tags":[1374,1206,279,1335,976,1282,1375,878,1054,1068,693,848,1376,1197,1239],"class_list":["post-10271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aws","category-cloud","category-dataprotection","category-datadobi","category-pure-storage","category-storage","category-vmware","tag-activecluster","tag-benchmarking","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-director","tag-data-protection","tag-datadobi","tag-dobimigrate","tag-flasharray","tag-home-theatre","tag-prediction","tag-pure-storage-2","tag-random","tag-subwoofer","tag-vcd","tag-vcloud-director"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10271"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10276,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10271\/revisions\/10276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}