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Linux iSCSI Multipath: Fix ARP Flux and NIC Binding

Linux Storage Networking, Part 1 of 4. So you’ve got two NICs in a Linux host, four iSCSI ports on the array, and eight paths to your storage. multipath -ll says everything is happy. You should be able to pull a cable and keep going. Should is doing a lot of work there. If you’re…

Giving AI Access to Salesforce with MCP

Apparently I’m still trying to avoid using the Salesforce web interface. Back in 2021 I wrote a post about automating Salesforce with Python. At the time I was using simple-salesforce to query my opportunities, figure out which ones needed updates, and avoid clicking through Salesforce Lightning over and over again. The basic philosophy hasn’t really…

Building PHIF: Modular Hypervisor Integrations, Storage-Native Mobility, and a VMware Migration Path That Doesn’t Depend on VDDK

Project source: PureStorage-OpenConnect/pure-hypervisor-integration-framework on GitHub For most of the last two decades, enterprise virtualization had a fairly predictable center of gravity: VMware. Storage vendors built deep integrations with vSphere. Backup platforms built around VMware APIs. Migration products commonly approached VMware as a source by reading its virtual disks and moving those blocks somewhere else. That…

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