blog.Brokenhaze

One of the pieces of the vSphere Enterprise license is DRS. Especially the ability to use DRS to one-click upgrade/update a cluster. If you don’t know what DRS is, the short version is that it is a product you get with the Enterprise license which allows you to have vSphere move VMs around intelligently. One […]

A little about me Hi, I’m George and I’m running for one of the open seats on the LOPSA Board. I’ve been involved in LOPSA for about four years now. I’ve been involved with the NYC local since it started, and have been part of the LOPSA-EAST (Formally PICC) committee for the past three years. […]

At Stack Exchange we like to two two, well no three things. One, we love living on the bleeding edge and making use of awesome new features in software. Two, we love configuring the hell out of everything we run which leads to three – getting the absolute most performance out of the software that […]

Recently I’ve been playing with using the WS-MAN protocol to gather information (and eventually run updates) on our Dell servers. It has actually been a fairly insteresting project after I got through the pretty high learning curve to get started using WS-MAN. First, what is WS-MAN? It’s a management standard developed by the DTMF. What […]

I’ve spent a good deal of my time working with puppet over the last few years. And like most other things I’ve spent some time trying to optimize my workflow to avoid the annoying things. Just like anything else developing a good workflow for puppet has taken some time and I’d like to share the [...]

Excuse me for a bit while I get a little sentimental. Tomorrow (the 27th of September) marks my two year anniversary with Stack Exchange – it was still called Stack Overflow Internet Services when I joined! I realized this about two or three weeks ago when I was setting up my trip to Denver for [...]

Disclaimer: Most of my career i’ve been what you would call and “Individual Contributor” these are not observations from a managerial perspective, but from a team member perspective In the past 10 years or so I’ve worked under pretty much all your basic boss types. I’ve seen how people react to different stimuli and managerial [...]

Communication is an important thing in any team environment, and part of communication is realizing how your chose form of contact interrupts the other people on your team. Generally we get interrupted multiple times a day via our various means of communication. Generally we are available via: Phone (both land line and cell), IM, Group [...]

I had a great – albeit brief – conversation with Matt Simmons while he was in town on his world tour in NYC recently that got me thinking about bringing the SysAdmin community together. This isn’t the first time that I’ve thought about how bring the SysAdmin community together in a stronger way. And, since [...]

I think the first time I heard the term DevOps I didn’t think all that much about it, in fact I vaguely remember thinking “oh great another group of developers that think they don’t need sysadmins and they can just code themselves out of any systems problem.” Of course, at the time I was working [...]