I am very proud to be renewed as a Nutanix Technology Champion for 2025. https://next.nutanix.com/community-blog-154/introducing-the-nutanix-technology-champions-for-2025-a-celebration-of-excellence-and-innovation-43855 This years theme is ‘A Celebration of Excellence and Innovation’ – big shoes for us all to fill in sharing and levelling up together in the community. I am beyond excited to see what chaos we can cause together for […]
Testing FreeBSD 14.1 on Nutanix AHV
A fellow Nutanix Technology Champion Jonathan had asked if anyone had tested FreeBSD 14 on AHV yet, FreeBSD 13 is shown on the compatibility matrix fine. (I am using AOS 6.8 here) I’ve not used FreeBSD in many, many years other than via an appliance such as NetScaler so I thought it’d be a useful […]
UK Weather & Disaster Avoidance
The UK (infrastructure) has a tendency to fall apart when it rains, is too windy, too cold, or too warm. We as a people seem to cope best with a moderately cool climate and without any surprises. In the last couple of weeks we’ve been unfortunate to receive a lot of inclement weather; cold, wind, […]
Farewell my little EdgeRouter (pt2 – a stay of execution)
With the weekend maintenance window agreed, begrudgingly, by the internal customers at home I set about replacing the EdgeRouter we last visited on https://itskimpossible.blog/farewell-my-little-edgerouter/ with my frankenrouter Futro S920 OPNsense. First of all, before pulling the connection down, I booted up the S920 with the power consumption monitor to see how things looked. Initially shocked […]
Farewell my little EdgeRouter
5+ years, two power supplies, and various configurations later the day has come to retire the little faithful EdgeRouter that has served this household well. With a near daily frequency of it just dropping the WAN interface until a reboot, the ‘Dad, the WiFi is down again!‘ cries from the internal customers has forced my […]
Patch Management Engine
Over the holiday break, I have been enrolling devices into our Remote Monitoring & Management (RMM) tooling and seeing what quick wins could be realised. One of the first things we do after installing the RMM agent across an environment is to allow the ‘Detect Only‘ patch management task to run. This task runs twice […]
The importance of facetime (workshopping)
The global pandemic taught us (some of us already knew) that we could work collaboratively without being in the same room. Normally this is a decision taken through choice be it for logistics, timezone convenience, or doing our bit to save the planet but the pandemic effectively made it impossible to be in the same […]
Finally… a blog
For what feels like years of saying ‘I really should write a blog’ and ‘I don’t have time to curate material that would be interesting for others’, I have realised that at least once a week I search my mailbox, or previous support tickets to find something I have done in the past and need […]