{"id":10402,"date":"2022-04-11T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=10402"},"modified":"2022-04-10T16:02:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T06:02:43","slug":"random-short-take-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #70. Let&#8217;s get random.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Want to setup OpenVPN Server on your Debian 11 installation? This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberciti.biz\/faq\/debian-11-set-up-openvpn-server-in-5-minutes\/\">article will get you there in 5 Minutes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>USB-C? Thunderbolt? Whatever it&#8217;s called, getting stuff to connect properly to your shiny computers with very few useful ports built-in can be a problem. <a href=\"https:\/\/overengineer.dev\/blog\/2021\/04\/25\/usb-c-hub-madness.html\">This article<\/a> had me giggling and crying at the same time.<\/li>\n<li>Backblaze has come through with the goods again, with this article titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/how-to-talk-to-your-family-about-backups\/\">How to Talk to Your Family About Backups<\/a>&#8220;. I talk to my family all the time about backups (and recovery), and it drives them nuts.<\/li>\n<li>In other data management news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20220331005178\/en\/Aparavi-and-Wasabi-Technologies-Partner-to-Help-Organizations-Extract-True-ROI-from-High-Performance-Data-Management\">Aparavi and Wasabi Technologies have teamed up to extract real ROI from high performance data management<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I loved this article from Preston on <a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2022\/04\/10\/death-in-the-digital-age\/\">death in the digital age<\/a>. It&#8217;s a thorough exploration not only of what happens to your data when you shuffle off, but also some of the challenges associated with keeping your digital footprint around after you go.<\/li>\n<li>My friends at <a href=\"https:\/\/storpool.com\">StorPool<\/a> have announced some <a href=\"https:\/\/storpool.com\/news\/enhanced-offerings-for-managed-services-providers\/\">enhanced offerings for Managed Services Providers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve had the good fortune of having Sandeep on some calls with my customers, and he knows a thing or two about things that go ping. His latest blog post on <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/cloud\/2022\/04\/06\/vmware-cloud-on-aws-advanced-networking-and-routing-features\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=vmware-cloud-on-aws-advanced-networking-and-routing-features\">VMware Cloud on AWS Advanced Networking and Routing features<\/a>\u00a0made for some interesting reading.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, if you&#8217;re looking at all-flash as an option for your backup infrastructure, it&#8217;s worth checking out Chris&#8217;s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architecting.it\/blog\/all-flash-backup-fallacy\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=all-flash-backup-fallacy\">here<\/a>. The performance benefits (particularly with recovery) are hard to argue with, but at scale the economics may still be problematic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #70. Let&#8217;s get random. Want to setup OpenVPN Server on your Debian 11 installation? This article will get you there in 5 Minutes. USB-C? Thunderbolt? Whatever it&#8217;s called, getting stuff to connect properly to your shiny computers with very few useful ports built-in can be a problem. This article had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1049,146,514,874,135,25,5,1178,1377,4],"tags":[1041,1050,572,573,976,1098,787,1179,1144,1028],"class_list":["post-10402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aparavi","category-apple","category-backblaze","category-cloud","category-computers","category-dataprotection","category-storage","category-storpool","category-vmconaws","category-vmware","tag-all-flash","tag-aparavi","tag-backblaze-2","tag-data","tag-data-protection","tag-debian","tag-storage","tag-storpool","tag-vmconaws","tag-vmwonaws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10402","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=10402"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10430,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10402\/revisions\/10430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}