One of the most common questions I get from my Nutanix colleagues, as well as customers and partners, is “How do I use the Nutanix API to get VM performance statistics?” Before digging into exactly how we do that,...
Read MoreIntro Recently Nutanix extended the already-powerful Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) software by adding the ability to natively leverage cloud-init and Sysprep VM customisation. This means we can still use Prism to create...
Read MoreYesterday I needed to setup a local DNS server. Sure, I could’ve used Windows but, mostly for licensing reasons, decided that using a free OS would be a much better idea. For various reasons I used to go with CentOS 7, the...
Read MoreI’ve got a few PHP libraries and classes that I use regularly and, since making the decision to base all my projects on the Laravel framework, have gotten fairly used to installing packages using Composer. I battled...
Read MoreLike most websites, my current project requires users to login. For security reasons, user sessions timeout after a while, leaving the user without an authenticated session. While this is fine for me,...
Read MoreYesterday I decided to get an action camera. The decision between a Garmin Virb and the latest GoPro is probably a topic for another article, so let’s just get the decision out of the way; I ended up getting the GoPro...
Read MoreI’ve thought about writing a post like this for a while, but haven’t ever had a really good reason until now. As I write this, I’m sitting in a hotel in Singapore during the final night away from home, right at the tail end of a...
Read MoreI recently modified my dev environment to allow PHP 5.4 apps, something that involved adding a bunch of Debian Linux “wheezy” sources to my aptitude configuration. No problem in itself, but it did totally wreck my web server’s...
Read MoreAnother one? Really? I’ll be the first to admit there there is a huge number of documents, websites, tutorials and guides already available for what I’d say is one of the most common questions from web developers: “How do I...
Read MoreI’m a bit of a n00b when it comes to doing stuff in JavaScript. So naturally, when I find a way of introducing a bit of efficiency into a JavaScript situation, I’m more than happy to throw it into the mix. My only disclaimer for...
Read MoreMost VMware administrators will know that it’s possible to run VMware vCenter on one server and have the vSphere SQL database on another server. This is a perfectly acceptable configuration and, in anything but smaller...
Read MoreCoda 2 Coda 2, one of my favourite code editors, was released on May 24th 2012 to a somewhat underwhelming reception, in my opinion. To be 100% honest, I’m a bit disappointed with Coda 2, not for product or feature...
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