Last year was my first year as VMworld. As a result, I had been afraid of diving too deep into community and missing sessions. This year was much better! I spent nearly my entire time talking with other people about their take on a variety of different announcements, technologies, vendors, etc. My goals around community… Read More
VMworld 2018 – Recap
It’s Friday night in Las Vegas and my flight is about to depart. I’ve had most of today to think about VMworld 2018 and put my thoughts together for my second VMworld conference. Announcements – There were many announcements made at VMworld this year, but only a handful of those will have a direct impact… Read More
VMworld 2018 – Personal Milestone Achieved
tl:dr – i did something that I’m really proud of and wanted to share my story so far… going back a little further than necessary. I write this post on a plane to Las Vegas for VMworld. It’s been such a wild ride so far. My career, that is… the flight is perfectly fine! I’ve… Read More
My Reason For and Experience Upgrading Horizon 7.4 to 7.5.1
The Scenario: At work, we recently upgraded our vSphere environment to vSphere 6.5 Update 2. We had been using Horizon 7.4 since GA without much issue. Immediately after the upgrade to 6.5U2, we began to experience strange behaviors in Horizon. Some of those behaviors as follows: Newly provisioned Linked Clones from an existing Desktop Pool… Read More
Challenge: Integrating vRO with vRA
Earlier in the year I stood up an expandable deployment of vRealize Automation (following this blog post). I’ve finally had time over the last week or so to focus on this new (to me) technology! I’m starting to play around and really enjoying myself while at the same time becoming incredibly frustrated when I can’t… Read More
My Experience Upgrading vCenter Server from 6.5 to 6.7
vSphere 6.7 was released on April 17, 2018 and I have been eagerly awaiting the ability to upgrade any one of my environments. It recently came to the decision of either upgrading to vSphere 6.5U2 or shooting straight to vSphere 6.7 as a result of support for a newer operating system. Additional benefits in vSphere 6.7 ended… Read More
The ramdisk ‘root’ is full.
Despite having it on my “to-do” list for quite some time, I still haven’t configured vSphere Autodeploy. Instead, I’ve written scripts to automate most of the settings that I need to apply. I’ve felt like this has mostly sufficed and enabled me to still quickly provision a host. Not long ago I deployed a new… Read More
