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High Availability Is Not Disaster Recovery
ArchitectureGuides

High Availability Is Not Disaster Recovery

The two get used interchangeably and they solve completely different problems. What separates them, the two numbers that define both, and a worked example of three failures where only one of them saves you.

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Nobody Has 100% Uptime
ArchitectureGuides

Nobody Has 100% Uptime

Product teams keep asking for applications that never go down. Here is why 100% uptime is not a real target, what people usually mean when they ask for it, and how to decide whether zero downtime upgrades are worth what they cost.

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The Human Nervous System: A Visual Guide
Health & Personal

The Human Nervous System: A Visual Guide

How the nervous system is put together, from the organisation chart down to a single neuron, with illustrations covering the CNS and PNS, action potentials, reflex arcs, and the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches.

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What Is a Prion, in Plain English?
Health & Personal

What Is a Prion, in Plain English?

A prion is a protein folded the wrong way that forces its healthy neighbours to misfold too. What that means, why it matters for the human brain, and why the normal version of the protein is already sitting in your head right now.

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VCF Automation RBAC Architecture Overview
VMware Cloud FoundationArchitecture

VCF Automation RBAC Architecture Overview

How role-based access control works in VCF Automation. The Provider, Organization and Project scopes, the built-in roles at each level, and a permission matrix comparing the four project roles.

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Patch VCF Automation before the Migration Service Engine
VCF 9.1VMware Cloud FoundationTroubleshooting

Patch VCF Automation before the Migration Service Engine

A patching order gotcha in VCF 9.1.1.0. If you patch the migration service engine before VCF Automation, the VCD_MIGRATOR upgrade runs for six hours and then fails on vmsp_upgrade.

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