How to Migrate from vSphere Standard Switch (VSS) to vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) – and Back Again
The vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) provides centralized network management across multiple ESXi hosts and offers advanced features such as Network…
Deploying NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) in Azure using NetApp Console (formerly BlueXP) – Part 9 – Azure Key Vault as an External Key Manager: Encryption, Outage Recovery, and Worst-Case HA Testing
In previous parts of this series, we deployed, managed, protected, and replicated Cloud Volumes ONTAP systems in Microsoft Azure. While…
Windows Secure Boot Certificates Expire in June and October 2026 – Readiness Checks, Troubleshooting, and VMware vSphere Fixes
Microsoft has announced that the original Secure Boot certificates introduced with Windows and UEFI Secure Boot in 2011 are approaching…
Modern Azure Deployments with Terraform & GitHub – Part 3 – Automating Terraform CI/CD Workflows with GitHub Actions
After building a production-style multi-environment Terraform project with centralized remote state management and environment-specific deployment configurations in Part 2, the…
Modern Azure Deployments with Terraform & GitHub – Part 2 – Remote Backends and Multi-Environment Deployments
In Part 1, we deployed our first Azure resources with Terraform and GitHub using a locally stored Terraform state In…
Modern Azure Deployments with Terraform & GitHub – Part 1 – Introduction to Terraform, GitHub, and Infrastructure as Code on Azure
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ONTAP EMS Notifications: Configuring Email Alerts via SMTP Relay
Configuring email notifications in ONTAP is essential to ensure operational visibility, especially for critical EMS events and AutoSupport alerts. In…
Deploying and Operating Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) – A Practical Guide – Part 5 – Ingress & Application Routing (L7)
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Deploying and Operating Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) – A Practical Guide – Part 4 – Working with Pods, Deployments, and Services
After deploying and configuring our AKS cluster in the previous parts, we now start working with actual workloads. In this…
Deploying and Operating Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) – A Practical Guide – Part 3 – Deploying our First AKS Cluster
After covering the fundamentals and architecture in the previous parts, it’s now time to get hands-on and deploy our first…
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