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#STBY Cisco Clock Issue – 18month life failure

by on February 2, 2017 in Cisco, Sucks To Be You!

Cisco announced that a clock module in certain products may have a failure after 18months. This one is big, and this one is bad!
Partial list of systems with issues (ordered by my own priority of which I think will hit my customers the worst)

ASA 5506, ASA 5506W, ASA 5506H, ASA 5508, and ASA 5516 <---- ahh crap! Meraki MS350, MB84 Nexus 9000 Series N9K-C9504-FM-E/N9K-C9508-FM-E/N9K-X9732C-EX NCS1K-CNTLR Cisco ISA3000 SR4331, ISR4321, ISR4351 and UCS-E120

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Sucks To Be You! – An Overview

by on February 2, 2017 in Sucks To Be You!

Some days everything goes wrong. It’s not always your fault.

Often, vendors know about problems, and may post about them, or send a communique to vendors or their top superglobomega-corp customers. You are too busy to see them, or not privileged to that information.
This category hopes to be a beacon, a guiding light to what you should know. Learn about issues before you have a day that you feel it sucks to be you.

I’ll primarily focus on Datacenter issues which affect one of my typical customers, typical products we see in virtualization, compute (hyper-converged/converged), storage systems and security.

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Post-Insight Wrap-up, Storage Security, and other thoughts!

by on October 17, 2016 in NetApp, Security, Tech Field Day

It’s been a super busy month for JK-47, having just come back from Netapp Insight, TechFieldDay Extra, giving a #vBrownBag Storage Security Lighting Talk, and now getting dozens of customers ready for end of year DR tests and new purchases. This time of year I tend to meet with 10-15 customers a week making sure everything is going smoothly, and also looking over their storage with healthchecks of the past years’ data.
Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uf5YsUf9AU

In the past week, I spent some time talking to NetApp’s Tech ONTAP Podcast. The topic of interest was Storage Security, which I have a great passion for. Listen here:
https://soundcloud.com/techontap_podcast/episode-61-security-and-storage

Want to know more? Click Inside!

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Thoughts on Education.

by on October 11, 2016 in Misc, Words of Wisdom

I was thinking about education today. The ‘modern’ education system in America. How much it misses the mark in bringing out something special in those whom are our futures. Thinking about how I want my children to learn. I reflected back upon my own experiences, in many different schools across the country.

Some random thoughts on the topic…

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Netapp Innovation Awards 2016 – Shanghai FESCO Cloud: Scaling China’s Startup Businesses Human Resources

by on September 2, 2016 in Misc, NetApp

All around the world, storage geeks, management, and analysts are gearing up for Netapp Insight 2016. In just a few short weeks, Las Vegas NV (Sept. 26-29, 2016), and Berlin Germany (Nov. 14-17, 2016) will be painted blue in lights, and the sound of shoes adorned with snazzy red SolidFire socks will be on their way to the first session. The halls will be rumbling with thousands of conversations about Data Fabric, Non-disruptive Operations, All Flash FAS, and of course the Cloud.

Insight is also when Netapp announces the winner of their Innovation Award! While the many thousands of customers are all doing amazing projects, the Innovation Award nominees were selected by a panel of Netapp engineers and executives for undertaking endeavors this year which go above and beyond in terms of creativity and use of technology. The key categories for judging were Flexibility, Business Results, and Simplicity. Though each of the 4 companies were vastly different, the trend among them all was Flash!

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My response to an article about 451 Research SAN/Cloud

by on January 27, 2016 in NetApp, Words of Wisdom

Honestly, I have a strong dislike for researcher analyst firms. (Gartner / Magic Quadrant especially) Most are so far removed from what they claim to rate and research that they don’t have a clue what they are talking about.

Metrics can be skewed any way you please, to favor income sources as you see fit.

This reply is not against Phil Wainewright or his comments on the 451 study, but the lack of vision and visibility the analyst firm put on Netapp’s positioning of their [poorly named] Data Fabric.

Pasting it here to save it.

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Storage Field Day 8 – Here I come! #SFD8

by on September 22, 2015 in Misc, Tech Field Day

It is a great honor that I get to announce today! The awesome crew at Tech Field Day have invited me back for another round! A special thanks to Stephen @SFoskett for the consideration once again, and “delegate wrangler” Claire for making sure everything runs smoothly.

It is an amazing experience being able to sit with great minds of the storage industry, listening to and talking about the future of the storage market.

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Seeing all your alerts? Netapp Event Management System and You.

by on August 14, 2015 in NetApp

If your mail relay (re: Exchange) requires you whitelist the IP AND SENDER email of your nodes, you may have a big problem.

You may not be getting all the emails your Netapp Cluster Mode system is trying to send to you.

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Netapp: The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated

by on June 22, 2015 in Misc, NetApp

Now, we have all seen the blog posts, the Register article, the StorageMojo article, the anti-NetApp’ers on Twitter. Calling NetApp a one-trick pony or that they have not innovated or they are almost dead.

When you look at NetApp’s Data Fabric vision, the NaySayers couldn’t be more wrong!

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Convert Netapp body.7z to old style ASUP for ConfigAdvisor offline

by on June 16, 2015 in NetApp

I made a little script last year to help me with a customer issue, and I had forgotten about it until I ran into the same problem.

The script converts the extracted TXT and XML files from the autosupport mail body.7z into the old format for use with Config Advisor.

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