Cisco ISR, the 4000 series distributes the functions across several models.
Failover your cluster regularly
Once upon a time, on my first day of work, the Exchange cluster died. A two-node Exchange server for some 2000 mailboxes just keeled over and died.
Testing E1 links with BERT
Testing E1 links with BERT, instead of installing a loopback and furiously refreshing to check on the counters.
In Conversation 18
Me: Let us have Prawn noodles for lunch?
If you have a hot DR site, NotPetya will bite you.
If you have a hot DR site, NotPetya will bite you. Hard. Møller-Maersk, yes that Maersk suffered a complete outage that spread to throughout their entire organization, hot DR site and their backups. The only saving grace was an offline…
Milestones this year
Milestones this year are bitter sweet. This has taken me a really long time. The road to achieving this milestone is long, 32 years in total. I made my 100th blood donation in May. Out of the 100, about 10…
In Conversation 17
Dau: I have no appetite, I can’t taste anything
In Conversation 16
Dau: “Daddy can you please put my Swiss roll in the fridge?” <Or ants will eat it>
In Conversation 15
The millennial car conversation. Instead of
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A conversation in the car while on the way to morning breakfast.