This thing is awesome. Dell just launched the Dell Poweredge R740xd2, which is essentially a 3.5″ drive version of the Poweredge R740xd. Those of us who work with Dell servers know the R740 and R740XD as the 2 socket, 2U workhorse servers that power many of our HCI and virtualization […]
Dell Technologies World this year was a combination of the former Dell World and EMC World events that has come about from the joined companies. This year, I think one of the most important and exciting announcements to come out of the show was a sneak preview of the […]
Dell Technologies World is in full swing in Las Vegas this week. There are so many new products and features being announced that it can be hard to keep track of them all. I’ve sifted through all this stuff and come up with a few of the biggest things to […]
One of the most popular articles of all time on this blog has been an article on how to get CrashPlan running on a headless server. Crashplan changed some things in how this needs to be done, so my old article was no longer correct. I went through the process […]
I’ve been meaning to setup a box running Nutanix CE for a while. I’m not going to use it for my “production” services at home, because I don’t need 3 nodes, and 1 node doesn’t provide me with any fault tolerance. That said, I thought I might be able to […]
I’m on the plane on my way home from the Nutanix .NEXT conference in Las Vegas. This years conference certainly lived up to the high standard set last year in Miami, and should be top of your list for future years. Last year the big news was that Nutanix was […]
Last year at .NEXT 2015 in Miami, Nutanix announced scale out NAS services which was for Acropolis only. In version 4.7, which was announced at .NEXT 2016 in Las Vegas, this feature will be available on AHV and ESXi. Its pretty cool. Check out the official feature page here. Here […]
Day 2 of the 2016 Nutanix .NEXT conference at the Wynn in Las Vegas. This morning brought out a couple interesting announcements, as well as the delivery of some features that were announced last year in Miami. Acropolis Block Services is the most interesting one to me. I expect some […]
I have both servers running in my home lab right now, and thought a brief comparison of the 2 servers might be interesting to some folks who are shopping for their own home lab components. In terms of acquisition cost, the servers will be fairly comparable. At times, you can […]