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Vacation is over. Now get y’er ass back to work

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Well, it’s over.

Vaca­tions always seem way too short.  All of the months of plan­ning, dream­ing, work­ing out the lit­tle myr­i­ad details: then, 10 days in Cozumel and South­ern Cal­i­for­nia and it’s done.

C’est la vie.

That does, how­ev­er, mean that it is right about time for me to final­ly post some­thing use­ful here.  To that end, look for my new post­ing on rebuild­ing access to your ESX Host Serv­er after you bun­gle a Cis­co Nexus 1000v migra­tion.  Not that I would know any­thing about that.  *Ahem*

Some­times the best lessons are the ones we teach our­selves.  Often inad­ver­tent and unpleas­ant, yes, but the most long last­ing.

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Shanghai Dreaming…

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Wow I’ve been busy late­ly.  I real­ized this not just from how I feel and by look­ing at my meet­ing cal­en­dar, but also because I just noticed the month that has gone by since my last post­ing.  Time flies when you don’t know what’s going on.

I’ve got some things in the queue, notably around the Nexus 1000v soft­ware switch­es for VSphere.  Best prac­tices, expe­ri­ences in con­fig­u­ra­tion, some tips that might save your bacon dur­ing and after imple­men­ta­tion, and some ran­dom bitch­ing about Cis­co’s chang­ing rec­om­men­da­tions for how best to con­fig­ure the man­age­ment and data VLANs.  Hope­ful­ly that’s enough of a teas­er to get you watch­ing this space, or bet­ter yet by sub­scrib­ing to the RSS feed (I ful­ly sup­port lazi­ness.)  I can tell you, how­ev­er, that it could be anoth­er cou­ple of weeks or so as I am off to Shang­hai, Chi­na for a week or so to set up a new office.  Assum­ing our install date for the MPLS link is cor­rect, in any case.

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