Metal as a Service – MAAS to automatically install OS using PXE boot
Metal as a Service, MAAS for automatic PXE boot, a much better way of automating the installation of the OS on many machines over network. Continue Reading
10 tips to make an effective competitive presentation
Delivering a competitive presentation in a pre-sales meeting is challenging. What should be your style, and are you delivering it the right way? Continue Reading
The era of virtual and online boot camps
What worked well. What can be done better. Thoughts from the survey results after 16 hours of in-depth online technical education on Cisco SAN Analytics. Continue Reading
Top 10 use-cases of Cisco SAN Analytics and SAN Insights
From the live customer environments, the problems that Cisco SAN Analytics solved which could not have been solved before. Continue Reading
Cisco UCS monitoring using Grafana, InfluxDB, Telegraf – UTM Installation
Installation steps of UTM app for Cisco UCS monitoring using Grafana, InfluxDB and Telegraf – traffic on FI & IOM ports, vNIC/vHBA, Service Profiles, etc. Continue Reading
Monitor Cisco UCS using XML API & Python SDK – Tips & Best Practices
Lessons learned, tips and best practices to poll vNIC/vHBA stats, FI port stats, backplane port stats, etc. from Cisco UCS blade servers using Python SDK Continue Reading
Unexpected graphs on NMS after clearing counters? Here is why.
Do you see a sudden spike or dip in traffic utilization graph on your NMS after clearing counters on your networking device? Here is why… Continue Reading
The audience types (and sub-types) of a competitive presentation
Profile your audience before making a competitive differentiation pitch in your presentation – Internal, External, Customers, Non-customers Continue Reading
Automate password less SSH between thousands of linux servers
I wrote a script to automate password-less SSH between 1000s of servers. You can use it too. Continue Reading
Add multiple disks to Linux (real fast)
Automated utility to detect newly added disk, create partition, create file system and mount to a location. Created and test on Linux. Download and use it. Continue Reading