One of the first things we evaluate with a new PortX customer is their network access. Most connect via Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) VPN tunnels to an on-premise firewall. However, we recently established a connection for a new customer with AT&T’s Netbond cloud networking solution, which presented our team with exciting new integration alternatives. We’ll cover the unique options for connecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) to AT&T Netbond, the issues we uncovered, and how we developed a cost-saving solution for the customer.

Recently I switched from WordPress to using Jekyll via Github pages. I quickly got into the habit of dumping blog post ideas into issues on my blog’s repo. It’s a great way to iterate on them and get feedback on them before actually publishing them.

The ideas keep accumulating, now how to get them published quickly? By automating it a much as possible!

If your shared storage or volumes go offline while VMs are running, but after recover these volumes and rescan adapter, datastores still stay in inactive state and you’re seeing the following in the /var/log/vmkernel.log:

One of my colleagues’ account was constantly being locked out. I suspected that he had used his account to run a service, or other automated task on a server and I needed to find out which one.

Normally when we do show command we make use of the | to filter and put in keywords after like include, exclude, begin and section. As we all know “include” means show only that matches the string like for the example below.

R1#sh run | inc CISCO 
neighbor CISCO peer-group

If you migrate Windows installations between storage adapters, you’re often left with the well known STOP 0x7B INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.