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Skip to content Main Menu Home Certifications Menu Toggle NPX VCDX Nutanix Partners Menu Toggle Vembu About Contact Main Menu Home Certifications Menu Toggle NPX VCDX Nutanix Partners Menu Toggle Vembu About Contact Latest Blog Posts Nutanix New! Nutanix Database Modernization Services by Derek Seaman August 18, 2020 0 Hot off the press are a collection of Nutanix professional services for database modernization. Nutanix now has Xpert professional services portfolio to meet the needs of enterprises of all sizes in their database modernization and automation journey. The series of database modernization services will bring your Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL databases into a Nutanix virtual environment and manage the full lifecycle of databases using the one-click simplicity of Nutanix Era. The professional service... Read more Nutanix Nutanix + vSphere 7.0 Now Supported by Derek Seaman July 29, 2020 0 One of the cornerstones of Nutanix is choice. Choice of hardware platforms and choice of hypervisor. I am very pleased to announce that we now fully support VMware vSphere 7.0 on Nutanix AOS STS (short term release cycle), with LTS (long term support) coming very shortly. Customers will need to be running the following minimum versions of our products before they upgrade their hypervisor to vSphere 7.0: AOS 5.17.1LCM 2.3.2NCC 3.10.0Foundation 4.5.4 A minor point... Read more MacOS Killer Deal on MacOS App bundle by Derek Seaman June 3, 2020 0 I stumbled upon a great limited edition Mac app bundle that ends around June 9th, 2020. So if you want the bundle, act fast! For an extra 10% off use the coupon code APPLEINSIDER10. The bundle sells for $59.99 before the coupon, and has a retail price of $1127.82. Use my referral link and you earn $10 (as do I), then use the site search function to look for "Parallels bundle" and click on the $59.99 "Limited... Read more Nutanix Announcing Nutanix Era 1.3 Release by Derek Seaman June 3, 2020 0 Hot off the press is Nutanix Era v1.3. What is Era? Era is a database as a service (DBaaS) that automates and simplifies database administration, brings one-click simplicity and invisible operations to database provisioning and life-cycle management. Era enables database administrators to provision, clone, and refresh the database clones at any point in time. Era allows administrators to define standards for their database provisioning needs with end-state driven functionality that includes High Availability (HA) database... Read more General How-To: Wireguard VPN on the Raspberry Pi 4 by Derek Seaman May 31, 2020 7 Do you want a wicked fast VPN back to to your home network that seamlessly roams between cellular/LTE and Wifi? Look no further than Wireguard. This blog post will show you how to install and configure Wireguard on a Raspberry Pi 4 and an endpoint such as your phone. I use this mainly in conjunction with my Pi-hole setup (see blog post here) to block ads/malware/trackers on all of my devices 24x7 no matter what network... Read more General MacOS user? Check out these top apps and accessories (2020) by Derek Seaman May 23, 2020 2 About 18 months ago I requested a MacBook Pro at work, instead of refreshing my Windows Lenovo laptop. I've always been a Windows user, so I was a bit unsure about the switch at first. However, already being in the Apple ecosystem with an iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad and Apple TV, a MacBook Pro just seemed like the next logical step. This post is not a review of MacOS, nor is it one of my... Read more General Time to go Solar! My Guide to Solar System Selection by Derek Seaman December 6, 2019 4 This post about Solar energy systems is going a little outside of my normal "IT" theme of this site, but it's very technical so I thought I would share. I've been doing a ton of research about going solar found all of the technical details fascinating, as well as confusing at times. So here's a "brain dump" of what all I've learned about solar from a residential consumer perspective. Hopefully it will be of use... Read more General Redirect Hard-coded DNS To Pi-hole Using Ubiquiti EdgeRouter by Derek Seaman October 27, 2019 3 ​A little while ago I blogged about how to setup Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi 4 B with DNSCrypt. However, not all devices on your network may play nice with your DHCP server and respect the DNS servers that it provides. Google is infamous for hard coding DNS in products, such as Chromecast. Or maybe it's another IoT device that is dumb, and you want it to use Pi-Hole. This how-to will show you how... Read more General How-to: Pi-Hole Plus DNSCrypt Setup on Raspberry Pi 4 by Derek Seaman September 24, 2019 12 Note: Updated 6/28/2020 to include Gravity-sync and MacOS/iOS Pi-hole control apps. Note: Updated 11/15/2019 to optionally use the ​NextDNS.io DNS filtering and analytics service.Note: Updated 11/1/2019 for Anonymized DNS configuration, added Raspberry Pi 4 firmware update procedure, and apt package removal ​to free up more space.Recently I've become more and more aware of the lack of privacy on the internet, not to mention sites brimming with ads or malware. Or your ISP spying on all the... Read more VMworld 2019 VMworld 2019: Day 2 Keynote by Derek Seaman August 27, 2019 0 Read more Prev Next Follow Me! Search More results... Generic filters Hidden label Exact matches only Hidden label Search in title Hidden label Search in content Hidden label Search in excerpt Search Search More results... 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