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The Need for Speed – VMware March Announcement
Today VMware announced a vSphere with built in Kubernetes solution. This allows their hypervisor access to Kubernetes clusters with built in operations to run and manage those solutions. They are making this change for a good reason. Businesses want their applications to run better, and the term “cloud-native” is right in the center of it.…
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The 8.1 Release of vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations
For the automation operator that utilizes vRealize Automation, 8.0 was a huge update. Moving away from those dreaded IAAS components built on Windows made everyone cheer. Unfortunately, what we found on the other side of 7.6 was an empty house that once held many functions we had all grown to love. The lack of multi-tenancy,…
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vSphere 7.0 – A New direction
March 10th has a lot of announcements for VMware. Lets focus on the our friend, vSphere.
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Weekend vCenter Error Fixing
So in the Homelab life each weekend is normally the “Fix it” time. If I can get time outside of the weekend I’ll try to get to it, because my OCD just drives me nuts seeing that red. Usually though it falls on the weekend. This weekend the errors I looked at are the following:…
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Installing vRA8.0.1 Easy Installer
With the update to 8.0.1 and the features it brings (including possible upgrades from 7.6 to 8.0), I’m sure there are those searching for “how to perform this install?”, and “is it really “Easy”?” Well the answer to the latter question is an emphatic YES. I’m just playing with the minimal installation, but, deploying one…
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vRealize Automation 8.0 : First Impressions(The first 24 hours)
My first 24 hours with VMwares vRealize Automation 8.0
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Imposter Syndrome – My Experience + Sucking the Venom Out
Ever have that feeling like your not enough? Maybe this will help?
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Cloning a Machine in Azure
The problem Coming from my own vSphere engineering standpoint the public cloud makes things which I thought was easy difficult. After looking through some steps in order to basically “clone” a machine, I finally found a way to do this that is a bit easier though it does break some needed rules, and probably isn’t…
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DFW VMUG Usercon (my experience)
Usercon is an amazing event. Thanks to some of the leaders I was able to volunteer this year and be part of the team. This came with some discussion with the speakers, Talks with friends, hearing good speaker, and some good meetings with vendors in the solutions exchange. The great thing about usercon is that…
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vRealize Operations 7.5 Application Monitoring
Application Monitoring These days there are a lot of different application monitoring solutions. I know cause I’m in the middle of looking through them for a good fit. The hardest thing for an IT operations engineer is having to be woken up at 3AM to fix a “Server Down” situation. However, it’s even more detrimental…