{"id":10884,"date":"2023-01-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=10884"},"modified":"2023-01-23T18:06:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T08:06:37","slug":"random-short-take-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year (to those who celebrate). Let&#8217;s get random.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Those of you who know me well will know I&#8217;m a big fan of Debian. I find running manual apt commands on my various Raspberry Pis therapeutic, but an automated approach is probably better. This is a great article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberciti.biz\/faq\/how-to-keep-debian-linux-patched-with-latest-security-updates-automatically\/\">how to configure automated security updates on Debian automatically<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I miss Tru64, and Solaris for that matter. I don&#8217;t miss HP-UX. And I definitely won&#8217;t miss AIX. Read about the death of Unix over at El Reg &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2023\/01\/17\/unix_is_dead\/\">Unix is dead. Long live Unix!<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The I3.metal is going away\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nextlevelsddc.com\/vmc-on-aws-i3-metal-end-of-sale-eos\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=vmc-on-aws-i3-metal-end-of-sale-eos\">very soon<\/a>. Remember this is from a sales perspective, VMware is still supporting the I3.metal in the wild, and you&#8217;ll still have access to deploy on-demand if required (up to a point).<\/li>\n<li>I do miss using Rubrik, so I thought this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lets-talk-about.tech\/2023\/01\/rubrik-how-to-run-script-with-2fa.html\">how to run a script with 2FA enabled<\/a>\u00a0on Rubrik might fill the gap.<\/li>\n<li>You think you have thoughts on online disk archives? Read this piece over at Blocks and Files &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/blocksandfiles.com\/2023\/01\/04\/opinion-online-disk-archive-wrong\/\">Opinion: Online disk archives are just wrong<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Oh VVols &#8211; I was just thinking about you recently. So was Alastair, and he even bothered to put some thoughts out there &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/demitasse.co.nz\/2023\/01\/vvols-oh-vvols-wherefore-art-thou-vvols\/\">VVols, Oh VVols, wherefore art thou VVols?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Speaking of VVols, Nicholson also has some thoughts &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thenicholson.com\/nfs-native-snapshots-vvols\/\">NFS Native Snapshots, Should I just use vVols instead?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>But really, when I think about VVols, I can&#8217;t go past my man Cody from Pure Storage. Here&#8217;s his piece on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codyhosterman.com\/2023\/01\/multiple-vvol-datastores-on-flasharray\/\">multiple vVol datastores on FlashArray<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year (to those who celebrate). Let&#8217;s get random. Those of you who know me well will know I&#8217;m a big fan of Debian. I find running manual apt commands on my various Raspberry Pis therapeutic, but an automated approach is probably better. This is a great article on how to configure automated security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[874,25,692,972,5,1377,4],"tags":[1408,976,1098,1202,693,848,973,787,1344,1144,786,1028,656],"class_list":["post-10884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-dataprotection","category-pure-storage","category-rubrik","category-storage","category-vmconaws","category-vmware","tag-2fa","tag-data-protection","tag-debian","tag-linux","tag-pure-storage-2","tag-random","tag-rubrik","tag-storage","tag-unix","tag-vmconaws","tag-vmware","tag-vmwonaws","tag-vvols"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884","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=10884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10888,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884\/revisions\/10888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}