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🚝Robert Novak

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I'm a server and infrastructure guy with a penchant for the big picture and a lifelong love of technology. I'm not looking for new opportunities at this time. Ask me about my homelab, and ignore the huge backlog of projects. I've redone my home networks for the end of my Meraki licenses. I've worked in networking and storage although it's been a little while. I was last a developer in 1993. I've never waited tables (even database tables) but respect those who do. I admit what I don't know and learn quickly. Today I'm an engineering product manager for UCS networking in the compute business at Cisco. From 2022-2023 I was product line manager for software management products at Supermicro. From 2018-2020 I focused on channel partner enablement, partner sales engineering, solutions engineering at Cisco. From 2014-2018 I played storyteller/matchmaker between big data ISVs, Cisco channel partners and internal sales teams, and occasionally a customer or 100. I've been doing big data since late 2003/early 2004 (really) and Hadoop since probably 2008 (CDH1). I presented at partner events and public conferences including Strata+Hadoop World (2x) and Cisco Live (4x, Distinguished Speaker). On the first day at Cisco (right after lunch), I pushed a half million dollar deal over the edge with my personal experience outweighing a competitor's positioning. From then on, I brought context and proportion to challenging situations, helping our customers succeed and our sales teams make money. I believe those two should not be mutually exclusive, and I consider it my mission to bring them together wherever I work. Before Cisco, I was a senior level Silicon Valley systems operations professional with nearly 20 years (different years, even) of production UNIX system administration in multiple varieties of UNIX (Solaris, Linux, BSD) as well as experience in other desktop and server platforms. I built a proven history of delivering enterprise class scalable server, network, and disaster recovery/business continuance environments within stringent budget and time restraints. I blog at rsts11.com and rsts11travel.com. Specialties: Big data platforms, hardware, and education; system administration, hardware planning and management (even clouds need hardware), Hadoop, written English (documentation is our friend), UNIX-based email systems, coffee preparation & procurement, operations team building and sustaining. I'm not a developer or coder although I can read or tweak some code. I don't have an MBA or a PhD. I'm not looking for new opportunities at this time.

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I'm trying to figure out a weird VPN solution - I'm certain it will require some roll-your-own pieces - but here's the idea. I have Eero mesh routers on two locations, and want to run what I'm calling a transparent VPN between them. Can't use eero as an endpoint for that. And I don't want to have to change configuration on clients on either end to shape traffic over the tunnel. Also don't want to use nested security devices, although maybe an MX behind Eero would be the easiest way to go (but it chops my throughput way down). I could just put a second Ethernet interface on my daily driver and run it through Meraki, but that's not as scalable as it sounds even if I do have a box of PCIe ethernet cards somewhere around here. I could also just use Zerotier with private DNS for those addresses, but that has its limits (25 endpoints total, for example, including mobile devices). Anyone have thoughts on this?


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This is pretty cool news. I wonder if some friends in Vienna may have helped inspire this change of pace for Broadcom.

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Had to check the date when I woke up ... but it looks like #FreeESXi is now back with the latest 8.0 Update 3e release! 😅 It comes w/an embedded license non-expiring w/same functions as Free Edition but no need to request key, which is nice! 💿 https://lnkd.in/gY8ENNwS


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I keep using Termius on and off from my iPad... pondering a subscription. Should I go with it, or is there another product I should consider.


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Even better, sell the laptop for $400 and profit more.

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Liam Fallen


How to make $300 in the next 3 hours using only your laptop: - Open your laptop - Find a domain - Create a website - Open ChatGPT - Generate 50 articles - Build backlinks - Post on socials Once you've done all this: Sell your laptop for $300.


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Any of my friends running Proxmox? I'm looking into it, with the possibility of a NUC, a Lenovo Tiny, or a dual rackmount gaming cluster for it. Or if I find some C-Series servers cheap, I could go that way. (Or maybe M-Series?) Interesting post that came up on my browser homescreen today:


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You could say I've 10x'ed in the last two years. The first photo was taken the weekend before I started back at Cisco two years ago today. The second was as I was leaving work yesterday, the last day of my second year. I guess I haven't changed a lot. Some changes in health and lifestyle, got some things done that I came here to do, but not everything's done yet. I'm hoping to look noticeably different, and have a few more visible projects behind me, when I go to take a photo like this next year.

  • Photos of the author, two years apart, outside his office buildings.

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I really don't remember playing volleyball on the job, but apparently I did. Those were the days. 3PAR Paul Harvey


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