Archive - SysAdmin Weekly

SysAdmin Weekly #35: ESX 3 All Over Again

AI hooked me the way vMotion did, the doom narrative overshoots, and your AI tools are holding keys

Sep 13 • Andy Syrewicze

SysAdmin Weekly #34: The Firewall Moved

Overlay networks, air gaps that aren't, and the last time anyone audited your ACLs

Sep 6 • Andy Syrewicze

August 2026

SysAdmin Weekly #33: The Battle-Hardened Blind Spot

Black Hat, two Kerberos CVEs, and what 25 years of hardening actually bought you

Aug 30 • Andy Syrewicze

SysAdmin Weekly Special Edition: Aug 2026

The Soft Skills Episodes

Aug 24 • Andy Syrewicze

SysAdmin Weekly #32: Backups, Consoles, and Single Points of Failure

RAID 6, An Azure Storage Account, and why a second (or third) road into the infrastructure is a BIG deal

Aug 13 • Andy Syrewicze

July 2026

SysAdmin Weekly #31: The "Supported" Install That Ate My Evening

"Supported" is a claim a vendor makes, not a promise the software keeps

Jul 24 • Andy Syrewicze

SysAdmin Weekly #30: The Translation Layer

Hardware got expensive in the worst budget climate in years, so learn to make the business case.

Jul 17 • Andy Syrewicze

SysAdmin Weekly #29: Back From the Graveyard

The tools you wrote off deserve a revisit; sometimes the reason you quit them got fixed

Jul 10 • Andy Syrewicze

SysAdmin Weekly #28: The Right Tool, The Real Cause

Right-size your tech, then go read your vendors' postmortems

Jul 2 • Andy Syrewicze

June 2026

SysAdmin Weekly #27: The Boring Wins

I rebuilt a four-month-old project's entire changelog from nothing but git diffs in twenty minutes. The scoping is the whole game.

Jun 25 • Andy Syrewicze

SysAdmin Weekly #26: The Off-Switch You Don't Own

A frontier model went dark worldwide in 72 hours this month. Here is why that is an argument for owning your hardware...

Jun 18 • Andy Syrewicze

SysAdmin Weekly #25: The Silicon Squeeze

When hyperscalers buy the fab capacity, you can't buy the parts...

Jun 11 • Andy Syrewicze

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