A quick post about my recent vSphere Upgrade! Earlier this month, I began working on a migration project to move production systems from vSphere 5.5 Update 3 to vSphere 6.5. There’s many different reasons I wanted to do so. I’ll be honest, I’m one of the few that actually wanted to get back to the Web Client. At… Read More
Google Chrome Flash Fix for vSphere Web Client
Sometime during the middle of last week, my Google Chrome updated and made it so that I was unable to access vCenter via vSphere Web Client. Currently, my Chrome is Version 62.0.3202.62. During this update, the embedded Adobe Flash Player was updated from 27.0.0.159 to 27.0.0.170. The result was less than stellar: Image stolen from @lamw‘s… Read More
vRealize Automation 7.3: Install, Configure, Manage (BETA) Review
Here’s the scenario: I’ve recently been introduced to vRealize Automation at work. We’re entering the tail end of the roll-out and I’ve only just begun to understand exactly how to interact with it. I understand why an organization might want to use the product, but I’ve just never been at a place in my career… Read More
Welcome to #Blogtober
Happy #Blogtober, everyone! In this #Blogtober post, I want to give a brief description of exactly what #Blogtober is and drop in some details on how I intend to use it. I hope to include an overview of ideas (so I don’t forget and so that you can hold me accountable) that I’ll post over… Read More
The Journey to #RunNSX Begins
Earlier this year, I worked to identify some goals for myself. Along the lines of those goals was to figure out what my next certification would be. You might have figured it out by the title of the post… it’s time to get in that #NSXMindset! Why NSX? There’s a ton of other certifications out… Read More
Learning PowerCLI
Well, well, well… we meet again, Blog. I really need to get better at this whole “actually use your blog” thing. That’s for another day. Let’s get to the meat of it! Lots of words incoming. I’ve been playing with PowerCLI (and by extension, Powershell) a lot more often as of late. I’ve struggled with… Read More
New Year’s Goals… a bit late?
In my last post, I talked about how failure had given me motivation to buckle down and get to work. I happened to fail my VCP6-DCV right before the end of the year. After some reflection, I decided that I needed to develop some goals for the coming New Year and work to develop myself… Read More
