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Grafana 101 - Part I

My Initial Journey with Grafana, Telegraf, InfluxDB, Prometheus to Monitor VMware, Linux, Chickens Part I – The Basics Why Well, two reasons actually: 1. As a vExpert, I have been digging into VMware’s monitoring tools such as vRealize Operations and vRealize Log Insight. Wonderful tools and relatively easy to use.

Automatic "On-Air" WebEx/Zoom Light

Automatic “On-Air” WebEx/Zoom Light Disclaimer There are much more elegant ways to achieve this same result with WebEx/Zoom REST APIs, but this method works for me. Learning new REST APIs is always a steep curve. I used REST for the Philips light, but simple bash commands for WebEx

Android

Android YouTube Image Wallpaper

Android YouTube Image Wallpaper Why I’ve been using a live view of the beautiful Charles River in Boston as my Android wallpaper and lockscreen image for about a year now. Beside being beautiful, this gives me an idea of the weather when I’m not near a window. Up

Virtualization

vRealize Operations REST APIs for ESXi-ARM GPIO CPU Temp

vRealize Operations REST APIs for ESXi-ARM GPIO CPU Temp Why As an IOT device, I’ve been thinking of possible data collection scenarios for the Raspberry Pi 4 running ESXi-ARM. My first proof of concept was to collect hygrometer data and send to vRealize Log Insight. You can watch that

Virtualization

Ansible and ESXi-ARM on Raspberry Pi4

Ansible and ESXi-ARM on Raspberry Pi 4 Why When I heard about Project Monterey at VMworld 2020, especially running ESXi on Smart NICs, my head just about exploded. Amazing. Imagine network segmentation and bare metal provisioning running ON THE NIC. Five days after VMworld 2020, the ESXi-ARM Fling was released.

Linux

ZoneMinder RTSP Motion Detection Fast Start

ZoneMinder RTSP Motion Detection Fast start to getting RTSP IP camera motion detection up and running Why I cannot see the driveway from my home office and would like to know when a car or delivery truck has arrived. The motion detection built into my Foscam IP camera pointed at

Linux

"Cuckoo's Egg"-Style Server Tripwire Instructions

“Cuckoo’s Egg”-Style Server Tripwire TL;DR: auditctl + syslog-ng 🤓 Why Like many of you, I have a few services running on home servers. I protect our home network with a firewall, but wanted notice in case anyone found their way past the firewall. Plus, I love the book “The

AI

Chicken Naming Robot

Chicken Naming Robot Create a custom machine learning model to recognize our six chickens by name Why Two Reasons: 1. At work, I am helping multiple customers build machine learning solutions to advance drug discovery and overall subscriber health. Understanding machine learning for object detection at a deeper level will

(Bot Catcher) Cloud, Cloud, Cloud and more Cloud

Cloud Title Cloud Subheading Cloud body. Cloud, cloud, cloud, cloud. Well, there’s egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and cloud; egg bacon and cloud; egg bacon sausage and cloud; cloud bacon sausage and cloud; cloud egg cloud cloud bacon and cloud; cloud sausage cloud cloud bacon cloud

AI

Toastmasters Shock Collar 🙂

Shock Collar for Presentation “Filler Words” (No, not an actual shock collar🙂) Why I’ve been speaking in public for about 40 years. I am always looking to improve my pace, clarity, informational value, and educational value. My new job, which I love, does not require as much public speaking

Virtualization

Terraform vSphere VM Creation Tutorial

Terraform vSphere VM Creation Tutorial Tutorial Explaining How to Use Terraform to Automate vSphere VM Creation Why My customers are all looking to see how Terraform fits in their multi-cloud strategy, so I figured some Terraform hands-on couldn’t hurt. Quick Demo Video Here is a quick demo video of

Virtualization

Hey Google, Automate VMware

Hey Google, Automate VMware Why My electric company gave me a free Google Home for signing up and I needed to see what I could teach it to do. I have been blogging (blog.faucher.net) about interesting developments in VMware lately, so this seemed like a good idea. Requirements

Kubernetes

Kubernetes on vSphere 7 Demo - Developer View

Kubernetes on vSphere 7 Demo – Developer View Part 1 You can find Part 1 of this series, focusing on setting up the Kubernetes Supervisor Cluster, here. What VMware just released information on vSphere 7 and all the new features included. One of those is native Kubernetes. To see an amazing

Kubernetes

Kubernetes on vSphere 7 Demo - Admin View

Kubernetes on vSphere 7 Demo – Admin View What VMware just released information on vSphere 7 and all the new features included. One of those is native Kubernetes. To see an amazing clickable mind map drilling into all new features see this page. Why It is March 17th, 2020 as I

Cannot Afford Tableau? How About the Free Apache Superset?

Data Visualization Tools I’ve been looking to visualize some data for a few projects lately. My experience up to this point on data visualization is Microsoft Excel pivot tables and pie/bar charts. The cool kids use more sophisticated tools to create a mix of amazing live graphs in

AI

Laser-Guided Autonomous Cat Bot

Laser-Guided Autonomous Cat Bot Why? As you may have picked up from a few recent posts of mine, I have been studying up on AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning. I purchased a $99 NVIDIA Nano for testing and NVIDIA was nice enough to send me the big sibling to

Penetration Testing in the Cloud

Penetration Testing in the Cloud Public Cloud TCO One of the original positive TCO use cases for public cloud was ephemeral workloads. Traditional, full OS VM workloads tend to be more expensive over time to run in the public cloud than to run on-premises. Ephemeral workloads, serverless workloads, or container

Cloud Machine Learning: Train in the Cloud, Deploy at the Edge

Cloud Machine Learning: Train in the Cloud, Deploy at the Edge Cloud Economics Currently, the financial benefit to cloud computing skews toward ephemeral workloads not always-on workloads. One ephemeral example is cloud functions such as Amazon Lambda or GCP Cloud Functions or Azure Functions. Short-lived cloud functions are much more

Machine Learning Without a PhD?

Machine Learning Without a PhD? I am fascinated by Machine Learning (ML). Technology and Computer Science has evolved to where ML models can be used to improve human life. Cancer cells can be identified by ML models more accurately than by human scientists. Health care companies can use ML to

Just Released: NetApp Cloud Insights Multicloud Inventory, Performance, Capacity, Reporting

NetApp Cloud Insights Multicloud Inventory, Performance, Capacity, and Reporting Last month, I wrote a post about using NetApp OnCommand Insight (OCI) to gather heterogeneous storage utilization information. OnCommand Insight is a mature, fully-featured on-premises software solution. NetApp has been building a complementary solution to OCI for customers who prefer a

Google

TensorFlow Chicken Recognition in Google Colaboratory

TensorFlow Chicken Recognition in Google Colaboratory I am working with a healthcare customer at the moment to improve machine learning for the benefit of subscriber physical and financial health. The goal is to run an increasing number of models and to shorten the time to discovery and health intervention. This

NetApp OnCommand Insight Cloud Install

NetApp OnCommand Insight Cloud Install I am working with a customer this week that would like to increase visibility into their heterogeneous storage. The end result may be consolidation and/or refresh. NetApp OnCommand Insight (OCI) is the perfect tool to use to gather utilization of heterogeneous arrays. Before installing

VMworld 2018 - Day 3

VMworld 2018 – Day 3 (Note: You can replay recorded sessions here) Deep Dive Into What’s New with Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management Console changed, mobile UI changed. Using Clarity UI. Workspace ONE UEM is the new name for the console. The AirWatch name is not as prominent. Windows 10

VMworld 2018 - Day 2

VMworld 2018 – Day 2 (From this blog post forward, I will try to use clear screenshots from the recorded session videos of the recorded sessions rather than my cell phone photos) Day 2 was a very full day. Grab a very large coffee and read on… General Session – Pioneers of

VMworld 2018 - Day 1

VMworld 2018 – Day 1 OK, here we go. Let the Deep Learning® begin… (NB: As there was so much information shared each day, I may use short sentences rather than long descriptive paragraphs full of context. This way, I can get the information out to those who were unable to