vSAN

As a UNIX guy I often fail to consider that not everything which utilizes point & click is automatically intuitive. Configurability's Achillies heel is in its complexity, and VMware's vast suite of tools is infinitely configurable. Hello intricacy! I've been running ESXi for longer than I can count using both hands, but never as an Enterprise-level VMware administrator - while I am aware of its daunting challenges, there's nothing quite like being thrust into unfamiliar territory for humble clarification.

I was dismayed vSAN didn't easily and automatically configure itself based upon a series of guesswork, mild interest, and median effort, but that's on me. So instead of sleeping last night, I fired up our employer-provided learning site and began watching technical training videos. Somewhere between the philosophy surrounding its use and the technical howto, I mused on how rote this all would be if I could simply virtualize vSphere itself to create a lab-within-a-lab, free from impacting the very platform on which I was standing in order to test. As you may have already surmised, these thoughts quickly turned from fanciful, to obsessive.

Those of you who are already familiar with this course of action may be confused how I could get "routine" from adding additional layers of configuration into an already complex environment, but that's not necessarily how us stereotypically lazy UNIX administrators operate; we vacillate between brilliant creativity in engineering an over-the-top solution for even the simplest problem, to orchestrating incomprehensibly bare-minimum solutions to otherwise sticky problems completely dependent upon our level of interest in the project at hand, and this had assuredly caught my attention.

In the annals of my blog I oft repeat how I embrace the RTFM-only-as-a-last-resort school of thought, so once again I winged it, albeit this time with increasing interest and above-average (for me) effort. I'm running three (3) vSphere 6.7u3 servers as virtual machines, with vCenter 7.0.3 as one of their virtual machines in an elegant display reminiscent of nested Matryoshka dolls and finished nesting their respective discrete virtual switches. I still don't entirely know what I'm doing, but it sure is a lot of fun.

Science, bitches.

And this is why I roll my goddamn eyes everyone says anything to the effect of (as an example), “You still need to burn fossil fuels to charge the batteries in electric cars,” or “Mining lithium for electric cars is what is causing the climate change I don’t believe in,” or any number of vacuous excuses used to halt or slow continuous improvement just because you lack the imagination, perseverance, creativity, or intellect to comprehend that is exactly the process needed to move forward. No, I don’t have all the answers and I certainly cannot anticipate everything the future will hold, but rest assured, those who aren’t swayed by the opinion of Luddites will pave it for the rest of you. Where you can hold all new opinions about things you don’t understand, and lack the critical thinking skills to effectively argue your point. Godspeed, dumbass.

https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/physicists-build-circuit-that-generates-clean-limitless-power-from-graphene