It all started a week or so ago with the having to restart my Windows workstation each morning before my day started because it was painfully laggy, and showing read latency on the boot disk that only seemed to ease up after a reboot, for a short while. Nothing fun in resource monitor to show […]
Upgrading old CentOS to new Rocky Linux
Today I was faced with a challenge, I have had an old CentOS 7 machine tucked well behind a secure enclave seeing out its days for a while now and sadly it has surpassed the life expectancy a few times so it was time to do something about it. The machine itself is a simple […]
VMware VCP-VCF Certification
Something I do like about Broadcom is the ease of accessing their training resources, and free of charge if you’re able to work with the self-paced online materials, and then just pay for the exam though the nearest test centre is a bit further away than my kitchen where I normally take my proctored exams. […]
Reflecting on 2024
It’s always a strange feeling in the lead up to Christmas each year as whilst we at Cutter don’t have a period of shutdown – a lot of our partners and customers do. This presents an opportunity for reflection when the world isn’t moving at 100mph, and a bit of breathing room to do those […]
Nutanix Technology Champion 2025!
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 […]