{"id":9604,"date":"2020-12-15T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T19:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=9604"},"modified":"2020-12-15T05:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T19:34:00","slug":"random-short-take-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-47\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #47"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #47. Not a great many players have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/friv\/numbers.fcgi?number=47\">worn 47 in the NBA<\/a>, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kirilan01.html\">Andrei &#8220;AK-47&#8221; Kirilenko<\/a> did. So let\u2019s get random.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been doing some stuff with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.runecast.com\/\">Runecast<\/a> in my day job, so <a href=\"https:\/\/gestaltit.com\/tech-field-day\/gcford\/slashing-troubleshooting-time-runecast\/\">this post<\/a> over at Gestalt IT really resonated.<\/li>\n<li>I enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/demitasse.co.nz\/2020\/12\/aws-design-automate-your-environment\/\">this article<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DemitasseNZ\">Alastair<\/a> on AWS Design, and the mention of &#8220;handcrafted perfection&#8221; in particular has put an abrupt end to any yearning I&#8217;d be doing to head back into the enterprise fray.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of AWS, you can now hire Mac mini instances. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flhoest\">Frederic<\/a> did a great job of documenting the process <a href=\"https:\/\/flhoest.blogspot.com\/2020\/12\/aws-create-macos-desktop.html\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Liking VMware Cloud Foundation but wondering if you can get it via your favourite public cloud provider? Wonder no more with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonlong.co.uk\/blog\/public-cloud-hosted-vmware-cloud-foundation-services\/\">this handy reference<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SimonLong_\">Simon Long<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ransomware. Seems like everyone&#8217;s doing it. <a href=\"https:\/\/blocksandfiles.com\/2020\/12\/09\/airgapped-defence-helps-schools-in-ransomware-attack\/\">This was a great article<\/a> on the benefits of the air gap approach to data protection. Remember, it&#8217;s not a matter of if, but when.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of data protection and security, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/\">BackupAssist<\/a> Classic v11 launched recently. You can read the press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/press-release-december-2020\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Using draw.io but want to use some VVD stencils? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/h0bbel\">Christian<\/a> has the scoop <a href=\"https:\/\/vninja.net\/2020\/11\/30\/using-vmware-vvd-stencils-in-draw.io\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of VMware Cloud Director, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steveonofaro\">Steve O<\/a> has a handy guide on upgrading to 10.2 that you can read <a href=\"https:\/\/stevenonofaro.com\/upgrade-to-cloud-director-10-2\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #47. Not a great many players have worn 47 in the NBA, but Andrei &#8220;AK-47&#8221; Kirilenko did. So let\u2019s get random. I&#8217;ve been doing some stuff with Runecast in my day job, so this post over at Gestalt IT really resonated. I enjoyed this article from Alastair on AWS Design, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1027,1323,874,25,1138,4],"tags":[1117,1324,279,1335,1310,1286,1239,963],"class_list":["post-9604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aws","category-backupassist","category-cloud","category-dataprotection","category-veeam","category-vmware","tag-aws","tag-backupassist","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-director","tag-runecast","tag-vcf","tag-vcloud-director","tag-veeam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604","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=9604"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9609,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604\/revisions\/9609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}