There’s a new host in town! Called i4i.metal.. What can it be used for? What does it cost? Here’s all the answers. The shiny new i4i.metal host features 64 cores, 1TB of memory (1024 GiB) and ~20.46 TiB of usable blazing fast NVMe storage capacity. That’s a lot of power in a single host. It’s kind of double what the …

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It seems like VMware has listened to the overall feedback that they have received. Usually sysadmins do not agree with each other on a large scale. But one opinion was broadly agreed on; vSphere’s QA was horrible (*insert production is QA meme here*). Thankfully, VMware has listened to us. On October 5th, they …

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Hi readers, Today’s post will be about my experience with having a startup becoming a VMware Partner, where I will explain all the things that I encountered. Both good and bad, so here we go. First of all during the sign-up process you pay a fee, this was $895 at the time of registering. Will I renew it? No. I will …

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Hi readers, Technology related content will return soon. However, first here’s an update as to what has been going on with my transition. On June 23th I have my intake appointment with a speech therapist, who will teach me how to speak and sound more feminine (so, a higher pitched voice). On July 11th, I have an intake …

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Hi, Today I was tinkering around with Azure and Terraform. I’ve been working on creating a Azure Web App based off of Linux. However I ran into the following error: Failure sending request: StatusCode=0 — Original Error: autorest/azure: Service returned an error. Status= This was caused by two things. Per the …

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I haven’t posted here in a while and an update is due, don’t worry, it is coming! Wanted to post a teaser here; next week I’m going to migrate my dear in the datacenter from a shared colo rack to my own full rack. This will be great but requires a lot of work, best thing is, I’m going to make a blog post (or series) …

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In this post I’ll be giving some updates about myself; I’ve had a lot on my plate recently and things are starting to settle down and good things are starting to happen. Lots of things have happened; here are some updates: First of all, as you probably read in the title, I have a job now! Well, I actually have my own …

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It’s that time of the year again, time to update my blog post about my current homelab! Here’s a picture of the front, from top to bottom; ESXi1 ESXi2 ESXi3 From the rear; ESXi1 ESXi2 ESXi3 EdgeSwitch 24 Lite EdgeRouter 10X You’ll notice that the iLO port is ESXi1 isn’t plugged in on the picture, I plugged it in …

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Hi, Happy new year! Even though I am 35 days late for that. This post will be broken up into several sections, but as you can read from the title this is a real life situation update. For those who just come here for the lab update; I wanted to say that I have a dedicated post for that in the works. Hospital and …

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Hi, In this post I want to point out the mistakes I have made when deploying Tanzu Community Edition, what I learned from it, how not to make those mistakes and what ended up happening with how I fixed it. So for those who don’t know Tanzu Community Edition is kind of a bit like Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, vSphere with …

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