About

I have been in the IT industry for 15 years working for a major equipement manufacturer and solutions provider.

For most of these I worked in the end user computing side of things, however after around ten years I had grown bored and disenchanted with technology - it had become hum drum. Our enterprise team based in the office I was currently working in were looking to hire some new blood. I did not think that I stood much of a chance of getting the role, however I am very pleased to say that I got the job and since then I have been promoted twice and I am now providing second level support for compute (racked and blade systems) along with some entry level storage.

This move reignited my interest in technology - so many [i]cool[/i] things to learn - NIC teaming/bonding, Linux, virtualisation, containers, scripting, VLANs, certifications, remote/out of band management (iDRAC, iLO and so on), mutlipath, leaf and spine networking, uplinks, 10GbE+, RAID, iSCSI, FCoE.... the list goes on and on in this space, it is incredible what there is to learn.

In order to aid my learning, I decided to change my then current desktop machine in to a CentOS server to host Plex and a monitoring tool (Muninn) - this taught me a little bit about Linux (just enough to be dangerous) and it also allowed me to start virtualising other OS using QEMU and libvirt. However, I have since learned that things could have been done better and that I am terrible at planning things out - I would do it differently now!

There is so much to learn, I struggle to focus on any one thing and get bored quickly. So, I have set up this page primarily to serve as documentation for the things I have learned and, perhaps, you may learn a thing or two.