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  • Catching Up: New Role, Transitions, and Gratitude

    calendar Mar 15, 2018 · 4 min read · career data-center community nutanix-champion personal  ·
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    I realized it’s been a while since my last post, almost 3 months now have gone by. That can be a good thing. I wanted to use this post as a brief recap of the last few months, and include some personal news that has hit me right in the heart… Catching Up Starting in 2018 I became the Director of Data Center …


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  • Nutanix Deployment with NVIDIA M60 GPU

    calendar Jan 3, 2018 · 7 min read · nutanix nvidia gpu horizon-view vdi vsphere  ·
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    I recently had the opportunity to deploy 12 Nutanix nodes for a customer across 2 sites (Primary and DR), 6 of which were 3055-G5 nodes with dual NVIDIA M60 GPU cards installed and dedicated to running the Horizon View desktop VMs for this customer. This was my first experience doing a Nutanix deployment using the …


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  • Hello Again: Nutanix Technology Champions 2017

    calendar Dec 19, 2017 · 1 min read · nutanix-champion nutanix community hyperconverged recognition  ·
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    Well, it’s that time again… 2017 has come and gone, and sometimes I just don’t know where all the time went and what I was able to accomplish. I’m happy to say that for the 2nd year in a row I’m part of a great group of people in the IT industry, those of us pushing the value of Nutanix and their simple, effective and …


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  • ESXi Services Disabled in NCC Health Check

    calendar Aug 10, 2017 · 3 min read · nutanix ncc esxi vsphere troubleshooting health-check  ·
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    This week I had the pleasure of deploying 2 more Nutanix blocks on behalf of one our partners, who is now starting to highly recommend Nutanix for their customer deployments of critical systems. The installation was pretty vanilla, 3 NX-1065-G5 nodes at the Primary site and matching at the DR site. For the VMware …


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  • Zerto Replication SQL Server Tuning: Lessons Learned

    calendar Jul 31, 2017 · 5 min read · zerto replication sql-server performance-tuning disaster-recovery  ·
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    3.5 hours down to 6.5 minutes… Recently I went thru a project to get Zerto Replication up and running for a Emergency Dispatch Customer who was moving away from RecoverPoint and SRM in an effort to simplify and consolidate their DR runbooks. As part of this project, we created multiple VPGs to match up with their …


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  • Cisco ASA Dropped Traffic Notice: Critical Bug Alert

    calendar Mar 31, 2017 · 2 min read · cisco-asa bug security firewall field-notice  ·
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    Cisco seems to be having a rough go of it lately with bugs that have a time bomb for certain hardware and software. Following up on the Signal Component issues – that plagued a large number of product lines (And in Cisco’s defense affected more than just Cisco – other vendors are affetected). I’m still waiting to find …


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  • The eGroup Team: CRN Tech Elite 250 Recognition

    calendar Mar 28, 2017 · 1 min read · egroup tech-elite recognition team certifications  ·
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    eGroup – Together, We make IT happen. Our slogan, our tagline. IT is what we do, together. From our Operations team, to Inside Sales, to Sales, to Pre-Sales, to Delivery. We do IT, and together. We announced today that eGroup has been named to CRN Tech Elite 250 list for 2017, which “honors an exclusive group of North …


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  • vExpert, Nutanix Champion and Community Recognition

    calendar Feb 8, 2017 · 3 min read · vexpert nutanix-champion community recognition  ·
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    We’re just two months into 2017, and it already feels like the year is flying by! The 2017 vExpert announcements came out today – you can read it here, and for the 3rd year in a row (well, really 2.5 since I forgot to renew at the end of 2015 and made it in the 2nd half of 2016) I’m honored to be included in the list …


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  • Cisco Nexus 7K Design with Active/Active FEX

    calendar Feb 6, 2017 · 3 min read · cisco-nexus fabric-extender fex networking design  ·
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    Back in November 2015 I wrote a post about FEX Topologies with the Cisco Nexus platforms, and at the time the Nexus 5K/6K line was the only model that would support the active/active FEX topology (FEX-AA), which was unfortunate in designing redundant connectivity for downstream devices. But with the release of NX-OS …


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  • Deploying and Configuring Prism Central on AHV

    calendar Sep 22, 2016 · 5 min read · acropolis ahv prism nutanix virtualization  ·
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    Continuing our journey with testing out Nutanix AHV functionality for one of our partners, one of things we wanted to get deployed was Prism Central. Prism Central is very similar to VMware’s vCenter, defining Prism Central as “software provides centralized infrastrcuture management, one-click simplicity and …


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Mike Dent

Field CTO with a passion for making IT modernization actually manageable for organizations. Outside of work, I'm splitting time between driveway workouts with my wife, adventures with our dogs, and appreciating fine bourbon - because balance matters in both life and technology.
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