Recently I provided a lab to learn vRealize Orchestrator to the Austin VMUG. It’s been too long since I attended a VMUG meeting due to moving to Dallas. It was great to meet new peers[…]
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Two simple things to improve your life
Warning this is an end of year personal post and has very little to do with technology so if you are looking for a technology post feel free to skip it. Two things have been[…]
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Basic NSX Setup using RESTAPI
In a previous article I used the GUI to deploy a basic NSX setup I wanted to do the same thing using the RESTAPI. Remember the manual process took me about 20 minutes to complete[…]
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Does understanding the cost of IT really matter?
Welcome to my new form of click bait titles. I have been thinking about this for a while. I get to see a lot of different enterprise environments as a solution architect for VMware. It’s[…]
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Basic NSX Network virtualization setup
This post will go over the basic setup for network virtualization in NSX. This is nothing new or exciting but I figured I would share as more users are deploying NSX in their home labs[…]
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PowerShell get the latest VI events
From time to time it’s nice to search the VIEvent log for something specific. I have found using PowerShell allows you to do this very quickly. If for example I was looking for[…]
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Does Cloud + REST API spell the end of GUI
Fun question: Does API spell the end of the GUI? I started my career as a Solaris and Linux administrators mostly because I felt that working in Windows Server took away most of my control. […]
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Advice to VCDX candidates from a Double VCDX
“Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” – Drake Update: I have updated the wording on the constraints section to reflect a Twitter comment from Martijn Baecke thanks for the fix[…]
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Redeploy NSX Edges to a different cluster / datacenter
First Issue my bad I ran into an interesting issue in my home lab. I recently replaced all my older HP servers with Intel NUC’s. I could not be happier with the results. Once I[…]
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