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, then switched back. I've worked in networking and storage although it's been a little while. I have never been a developer. 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 DR/BC 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.

Robert Novak

I just posted a cluster deployment walk-through on the Cisco Community site, rolling out Proxmox VE 9.1 from Proxmox Server Solutions on the Cisco UCS X210c M7 modular servers. 

It was a fun and productive effort, having not touched Intersight for the larger part of the last decade. Next up in the time machine recovery, I'll be writing up Ceph deployment on VE 9.1 after about 13 years away from Ceph (I last used it on Cisco UCS C220 M3S at Disney Interactive in 2013 or so, trying to deal with Tanenbaum's Law and a datacenter migration). 

Are you running Proxmox VE on Cisco UCS? Tell me what's going on in the comments.

🚝Robert Novak

Open article: Proxmox Virtual Environment for Cisco UCS Servers by community.cisco.com

Proxmox Virtual Environment for Cisco UCS Servers

So last month I learned that my Lenovo Thinkstation P360 won't drive an eGPU on the TB4 ports. 

Last night I learned that my Intel NUC10i7FNH1 won't drive an eGPU on the TB3 ports, or when it does, it interferes with the NVMe drive (and possibly SATA, although that might have just been an 8 year old 60GB SSD finally dying). 

Apple Silicon Macs don't seem to care for NVIDIA GPUs, from what I read, so I haven't even tried that. 

But my Lenovo Thinkpad P1 Gen 2 (nice little Xeon laptop) seemed okay with the eGPU. 

I'm so tired.

Who wouldn't want to go through a new account process for every application in the same platform, manually entering your resume after uploading it, realizing no human will ever look at more than 5 words of it? 

Been there, done that.

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Co-Founder and Principal focused on helping organizations adopt methodologies for continuous technology transformation. Sales coach, technologist, consultant, speaker.

Principal

Define the Cloud, LLC

Engaged in data center research, reporting and consulting.  Specialized in cutting edge technologies and cutting through buzz words.

Founder | Contributor

Cisco

Onboarded with the Insieme Networks acquisition. Acting as a Director responsible for building and managing field enablement and training, channel partner go to market strategy and engagement for Cisco Nexus 9000, Nexus 3000, ACI, CliQr and Tetration Analytics.  

Focused on working with Cisco Channel partners to build holistic practices around Cisco ACI, Nexus 9000, Nexus 3000, CliQr, and Tetration Analytics. Utilizing experience from building data center practices within VARs, taking a holistic approach to sales, services, and education practice building.

Director, Technical Marketing at INSBU

Insieme Networks

Technical Marketing Engineer responsible for building and managing field enablement/training, channel partner GTM strategy, practice development, and engagement for Cisco Nexus 9000 and ACI. 

Other responsibilities include:
Press/Analyst/Investor briefings
Sales and technical collateral and messaging creation
Data Center Architecture/Design
Customer/Partner Executive briefing

Technical Marketing Engineer

World Wide Technology

Working with US and APAC commercial and federal customers to design data center solutions that provide business value.  Subject matter expert for Cisco data center products: UCS, Nexus, MDS, etc.

Technical Architect - Data Center

Firefly Communications

Responsible for technical leadership and business development within the European, Middle East, and African theatres.

Chief Technology Officer - EMEA

Product Line Director for Cisco Nexus 5000/2000/1000v Series Switches as well as NetApp Storage. Data center instructor focusing on Cisco storage networking, Cisco Nexus Family Switches, and Cisco Unified Computing System.  Secondary focus on virtualized datacenter solutions including VMware virtualization and storage arrays.

Instructor/Product Line Director

Academy of Computer Education

Acted as a part-time technical trainer/instructor for Comptia certifcation paths.  Training both non-technical students and entry level IT technicians in hardware and networking concepts and troubleshooting techniques.

Instructor

Presidio Networked Solutions

Responsible for server and storage solution engineering, implementation, and support.  Specializing in NetApp storage, Cisco SANs, VMware virtualization, and IBM server systems.

Systems Engineer

Computer Sciences Corporation

Acted as a team lead for managed data systems within a large hospital environment.  Directly managed infrastructure and support at remote clinics.

MDS Lead

IBM  Global Services

Acted as a Wintel systems admin in a 500+ server environment.  responsible for day-to-day administration of server systems and virtualized environments.

Systems Administrator

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