Fred Hofer

Anyone at @AMD can explain why the Ryzen CPUs (Zen3 and higher) don't support cpuid.pcid but support cpuid.invpcid? Thanks.

Spent 90min to troubleshoot a kickstart config problem until I searched for SecureBoot and kickstart. Of course I found @lamw post about it 😁 williamlam.com/2018/06/using-… Looks like I forgot about it. 😭 #vExpert

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@RichardKenyan @MyVMUG @VMUGAdv @VMwareCommunity @erickubla @steveathanas @vBradBentley @michaelfleisher @mksennett @StephenWagner7 @BradTompkins_ @pablos @VMware @FrankDenneman @jpsider @mattheldstab @lamw Will be the slides available somewhere?

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Oh wait what is a Intel RTL8125? I think there is something wrong at the homepage.

I thought the @Hi_MINISFORUM MS-A2 could be a great vSphere #homelab and then I saw that one of the 2.5G port is a Realtek chip. Why Minisforum why?????

Thanks you @plex for giving us another @Sonos moment. Again, if you want to release a new mobile app see that the old and new app have the same features. I still wonder who made such decisions. #unbelievable

@DCasota @HPE Yeah I saw that. But still not good for an enterprise if there is just a folder for management tools and no other statement. Wouldn't you agree?

@Fred_vBrain @HPE downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/repo/mcp has a subdirectory Debian.

Quick question to my Twitterverse. Does @HPE support Debian as an OS on their servers? According to that hpe.com/us/en/collater… I would say NO. Any thoughts? #vCommunity

@DCasota @HPE See and that's the problem. I don't trust AI to get me the correct answer. And this proves it again. There is no official HPE link saying that Debian is supported. Only blogs or a community matrix. Don't think that this is enough when running it for an enterprise.

@Fred_vBrain @HPE ask Grok3 (x.ai -> try grok). grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5…

@h0bbel Installed one 2 days ago. Doesn't look pretty and feels just wrong. 🤣

I guess it’s time to *really* look at Proxmox for the home lab.

Does anyone know if @Cisco ISE is using @Infinispan in their architecture? /cc #CiscoChampion

Let the new sesson begin 🤘

@umacboyvictor Happy birthday and wow that looks awesome.

Thanks to my wife!🎂🥳😍

@RossWynne @ToshibaUSA Thanks. Currently waiting that the extended SMART finishes.

@Fred_vBrain @ToshibaUSA Feeling the pain mate… Good luck 🍀

When you try to extend your NAS with a new @ToshibaUSA MG10 8TB disk and that disk is crashing the volume after 24h. Is it bad luck? Currently running an extented SMART test. Thanks god I just copied data there so everything is fine ATM.

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