{"id":3365,"date":"2015-11-23T10:15:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T00:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2015-11-24T10:00:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T00:00:37","slug":"random-short-take-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">one of these 7 years ago<\/a> &#8211; so I guess I never really got into the habit &#8211; but\u00a0here&#8217;re a few things that I&#8217;ve noticed and thought you might be interested in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Ring did a <a href=\"http:\/\/davidring.ie\/2015\/11\/16\/emc-xtremio-vplex-backend-connectivity-considerations\/\" target=\"_blank\">very useful post on VPLEX &#8211; XtremIO connectivity considerations<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been working on a design covering just such a thing and was about to do a similar post. So thanks Dave for covering it off for me;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/techfieldday.com\/event\/vfd6\/\" target=\"_blank\">Virtualization Field Day 6<\/a> just wrapped up. If you missed any of the sessions, head over to the landing page to get links to the streams and associated blog posts;<\/li>\n<li>Dave Henry did a <a href=\"http:\/\/geekfluent.com\/2015\/11\/10\/emc-announces-plans-to-make-isilon-announcements-in-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">somewhat entertaining post on EMC&#8217;s recent Isilon announcements<\/a>. It&#8217;s now been updated with a few answers to some of his very reasonable questions. I have a few customers who are very interested in CloudPools. And I&#8217;m interested in finding out what the reality of the product is as opposed to the slideware;<\/li>\n<li>This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/niktips.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/20\/dell-compellent-iscsi-configuration\/\" target=\"_blank\">great article on configuring iSCSI for the Dell Compellent<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>VMware released its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/cloudnative\/technologies?src=vmw_so_vex_dfrit_205\" target=\"_blank\">Photon Controller recently as well<\/a>, and Eric had <a href=\"http:\/\/vsphere-land.com\/news\/vmware-releases-photon-controller.html\" target=\"_blank\">a really good write-up here<\/a>. The topic of CNAs came up at our recent VMUG and it&#8217;ll be interesting to see\u00a0how VMware\u00a0applies their particular flavour to things;<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of VMware, I was going to do a post covering some of SRM 6.1&#8217;s new features, but <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vladan\" target=\"_blank\">Vladan Seget<\/a> has it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vladan.fr\/vmware-site-recovery-manager-6-1-details\/\" target=\"_blank\">all covered here<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s the last week of nominations for EMC Elect in 2016. Read more on that <a href=\"https:\/\/community.emc.com\/community\/support\/blog\/2015\/10\/30\/who-will-you-nominate-for-the-emc-elect-of-2016\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/vmtn\/2015\/11\/vexpert-2016-applications-are-now-open.html?src=vmw_so_vex_dfrit_205\" target=\"_blank\">VMware vExpert 2016 nominations are also open<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/themarkofcain\" target=\"_blank\">The Mark of Cain<\/a> play <a href=\"http:\/\/thezoo.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Zoo<\/a> in Brisbane on December 5th (+ Greig &amp; BARGE with an antenna on it).<br \/>\nTickets $35.00 + bf; and<\/li>\n<li>This is unrelated, and somewhat dated, but I wanted to make a note somewhere on the internet about how to get my Yamaha receiver working in a 2.1 speaker \/ subwoofer combination. <a href=\"http:\/\/faq.yamaha.com\/us\/en\/article\/audio-visual\/av-receivers-amps\/rx\/rx-v667\/4722\/5973\/?current_page_id=1&amp;sort=&amp;type\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s the link<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s about it, thanks for reading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/iStock-Unfinished-Business-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/iStock-Unfinished-Business-2.jpg\" alt=\"iStock-Unfinished-Business-2\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/iStock-Unfinished-Business-2.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/iStock-Unfinished-Business-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/iStock-Unfinished-Business-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did one of these 7 years ago &#8211; so I guess I never really got into the habit &#8211; but\u00a0here&#8217;re a few things that I&#8217;ve noticed and thought you might be interested in: David Ring did a very useful post on VPLEX &#8211; XtremIO connectivity considerations. I&#8217;ve been working on a design covering just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[467,60,536,5,4,845,826],"tags":[21,812,423,846,848,849,786,697,847],"class_list":["post-3365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compellent","category-emc-storage","category-isilon","category-storage","category-vmware","category-vplex","category-xtremio","tag-emc","tag-isilon","tag-links","tag-photon","tag-random","tag-tmoc","tag-vmware","tag-xtremio","tag-yamaha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365","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=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3374,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions\/3374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}