There are limited cases where you would need to do this, but since I’m a huge proponent for scripting anything I do, here is a programmatic (and quick) way to enable or disable VAAI functionality for your vSphere clusters. Why Disable VAAI? The first thing you are asking of course, is why on earth would we do this? In vSphere …
What Jaws taught me about Information Technology
Sometimes the greatest life lessons can be inspired by other events. Perhaps a movie, song or something that inspires you to think differently about something that you do in life and at work. What I’ve learned, and want to share with you today, is that a lot of great strategies and lessons in IT and Systems Architecture can use the …
Event Recap: HP Storage Summit 2013 Toronto
Today was the HP Storage Summit presentation at the Carlu here in Toronto. It was an exciting event with a real focus on partner networking and about the roadmap of the HP Storage leadership team. I’ll start by saying that I was clearly under-dressed for the event :). It seems that the corporate focus drove the dress code up. There …
PowerShell and Import-Csv CmdLet, Adding Headers – Part 3
This was a long overdue post, so thanks for sticking with me while I finally got back on track with our CSV, yeah you know me series (Here are Part 1 and Part 2). As I’d mentioned in the closing of Part 2, we want to be able to deal with files that have no header in the CSV which …