Welcome to the Flackbox blog, where my aim is to help you build your cloud and data center career. If you’re looking to widen your knowledge across server, networking and storage technologies then you’ve come to the right place. I regularly upload training video tutorials featuring vendors such as Cisco, NetApp and VMware.
Defining Cloud Computing – Tutorial
Posted on April 13, 2017 By Flackbox
This is the third tutorial in my ‘Practical Introduction to Cloud Computing’ course. Click here to enrol in the complete course for free! We covered our traditional IT deployment models in the last couple of posts in this series: Traditional IT Deployment Models – On Prem and Colo ...
Server Virtualization Simplified – Tutorial
Posted on March 29, 2017 By Flackbox
This is the second tutorial in my ‘Practical Introduction to Cloud Computing’ course. Click here to enrol in the complete course for free! In this second cloud training tutorial, I’m going to talk about server virtualization, using technologies such as VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Re...
Traditional IT Deployment Models – On Prem and Colo
Posted on March 15, 2017 By Flackbox
This is the first tutorial in my ‘Practical Introduction to Cloud Computing’ course. Click here to enrol in the complete course for free! In this first cloud training tutorial, I’m going to talk about what we had before cloud, because to understand how cloud is different, you need ...
Cisco Lab Book Review – The VIRL Book by Jack Wang
Posted on October 5, 2016 By Flackbox
I’m going to do something a bit different in this post and give you a review of The VIRL Book by Jack Wang. I think this will add value for a lot of you because my most popular resource right now is my How to Build a NetApp Lab for Free ebook. With the converged […]...
What is a Cloud Application?
Posted on September 11, 2016 By Flackbox
Thanks to Tony Bourke for the accompanying video: [youtube v = osz-MT3AxqA maxwidth = 100%] What is a Cloud Application? I just wrote a fairly long answer to ‘What is a Cloud Application?’ on Quora: A cloud application is an application that runs on cloud services. ...
NetApp FAS8000 – FAS8020, FAS8040, FAS8060, FAS8080
Posted on August 15, 2016 By Flackbox
In this NetApp training tutorial, I will give a guided tour of the FAS8000 series platforms which comprise the FAS8020, FAS8040, FAS8060 and FAS8080 EX models. I will also explain the hardware architecture and available ports on the back of the controllers. Scroll down for the video and also text tu...
NetApp FAS2500 Overview – FAS2520, FAS2552, FAS2554
Posted on August 10, 2016 By Flackbox
In this NetApp training tutorial, I will give a guided tour of the FAS2500 series platforms – the FAS2520, FAS2552 and FAS2554. I will also explain the hardware architecture and available ports on the back of the controllers. Scroll down for the video and also text tutorial. NetApp FAS2500 Ove...
NetApp Disk Shelf Models and Cabling Tutorial
Posted on August 5, 2016 By Flackbox
In this NetApp training tutorial, I will cover the hardware characteristics of the various NetApp disk shelf models and how to carry out the system cabling. Scroll down for the video and also text tutorial. NetApp Disk Shelf Models and Cabling Video Tutorial [youtube v = HXIMbEXKaHA maxwidth = 100%]...