Well, another successful event, and the blisters on my feet to prove it. I attend a number of conferences each year, and there is something special about this one. Its not the sessions (which I
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Sometimes to move forward you need to look back, and I mean WAYYYY back. All legacy management platforms own their existence to SNMP, and really to be manageable, the first protocol you commonly support is
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So when writing a new PowerShell Module, you should consider how people are going to download it. Commonly these PowerShell modules have been tucked away behind vendor support websites that require logon, and while this
Continue ReadingHow to write a PowerShell Module that exposes a RestAPI endpoint.
Yeah, of course I will be explaining this via the Nimble Storage PowerShell Toolkit, which is (IMHO) a great example of how to do this correctly. Perfect, well no, but its going down the right
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So we have a Nimble Storage PowerShell Toolkit that can be used to fully manage a Nimble Storage Array. The toolkit exposes the entire API as individual atomic commands, which really is the right way
Continue ReadingHow I love ICANN, Let me Count the Ways…0x00
If you are curious where the blog went in the past week, it was a comedy of errors. Last week if you attempted to access this page you received a message from the ICANN that
Continue ReadingSNIA Symposium Day 3/4/5
With day three I spent part of my time with the Swordfish Protocol group as I did on Day 1/2, but added in time participating in the Swordfish Hackathon on specific projects. One of the
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A Roll-up of the work from the first two days of the event as it is going quite well. There is a track for the Swordfish Specification in which we discuss changes to the Specifications
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So I have been asked about this by a few people. It is kind of a stretch to place on a storage related blog, but here goes I have always been interested in 3D printing,
Continue ReadingSNIA Symposium 2019
Starting next week (Monday Jan 21, 2019) SNIA will be holding its Annual Member Symposium at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara. This event hosts a number technical work groups covering not only SNIA technologies, but
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