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Best Practices for Integrating Solution Engineering Feedback

Best Practices for Leveraging Insights from Sales Engineers in Product Management and Engineering Presales Engineers are known by many names, including, but not limited to, Solution Engineering, Solution Architects, Sales Engineering, and so on. In this article, I have opted to use Solution Engineering as a catch-all …

Insights from the AWS summit Berlin 2024

General Personal Thoughts AI

As I walked into the AWS Summit in Berlin, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. The atmosphere was electric, with attendees buzzing about the latest innovations in cloud computing and AI. As someone who follows the industry closely, I was eager to see what the summit was going to present. As …

Managing Stress and Fostering Creativity in Your Startup Team

General Startup Life Team Health PreSales Personal Thoughts

As a manager at a startup, you know that stress and creativity are intertwined. While a moderate amount of stress can be motivating, unchecked stress can stifle innovation and hinder growth. As your team scales, it's crucial to strike a balance between these two forces. Understanding Stress in Startups Stress, much …

Multi-Cloud DNS delegated Sub domain with Terraform Cloud

Cloud Automation General Terraform Multi-Cloud Terraform

DNS in a multi-cloud world As companies transition to multi-cloud deployments, creating a common way to deploy solutions has become a requirement, this is also easily achieved by using Terraform to create your immutable infrastructure. The challenge you face is that the infrastructure in a cloud deployment is dynamic …

Setting up GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS for Terraform Cloud

General IAC Terraform

The getting started guides for using Terraform with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) https://cloud.google.com/community/tutorials/getting-started-on-gcp-with-terraform All suggest using code like this to provide credentials 1// Configure the Google Cloud provider 2provider "google" { 3 credentials = …

Bongo Admin UI Images

General Bongo rPath Developing Programming

I have uploaded some images of the new UI so you can see what it looks like without installing it. Please let me know what you think.

Building the new Bongo Admin UI

General Bongo rPath Developing Programming

A while ago Alex (so_solid_moo to the IRC channel) created a php binding for the Bongo API. He also created the start of the new UI that we are working towards. We started with the admin ui for now as we have created a user interface with the roundcube project that Alex also integrated with. I stared porting the …

How to copy custom attributes when migrating vmware vcenter to new database

General Personal Thoughts Linux Programming VMware

I recently had to move hosts and guests to a new vcenter server as the old server had become corrupt and full of issues. The current vcenter has a few custom attributes and notes that would not be transferred as part of the move. So I wanted to use powercli to read the attributes out and put them back. To export the …

ESX Trunk VLAN config for Storage

General Personal Thoughts VMware Linux Nexenta

I was struggling with an install of ESXi on a cisco 6509 switch where the management and VM LAN connectivity worked just fine but for some reason the SAN NFS VLAN just did not want to communicate with the Nexenta on that VLAN. After some searching and trial and error I was able to utilise this post …

Connecting ESXi 4.1 to extreme x650 10G switches

General Personal Thoughts VMware

I am busy working on a contract with a company that is implementing a 10G network for their ESX cluster. We have been using extreme X650 10G copper switches for the core. Migrating the current servers to the 10G environment was relatively easy and went with minimal issues. Over the last 2 weeks I have been trying to …