At work, I’ve had the pleasure and the ability to build new systems and migrate users by workload instead of needing to upgrade systems that I know little about. I’ve done this when I needed to go from vSphere 5.5 to 6.5, Horizon View 6.2 to Horizon 7.3, and, most recently, from vRealize Automation 7.0.1… Read More
Milestone Achieved: VCIX-DCV
Backstory At VMworld 2018, I sat and passed both the VCP6.5-DCV Delta exam and the VCAP6.5-DCV Design exam (immediately prior to announcements that exam titles were changing). I had originally signed up to attend the VCAP6-DCV Deploy Workshop at the event – it was cancelled as I was the only registrant. For some reason, this… Read More
Thoughts on VMware’s Future in Cloud
I’ve been mulling about this post for some time trying to find the right way to convey the thoughts in my head. Hopefully, I do so adequately. Some background: At work, I’ve been taking several different AWS trainings as the company continues to drive its Cloud-first vision. There are a great many people who like… Read More
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 in 2019 – A Troubleshooting Story
tl;dr Just in case you’re not interested in the narrative and want only facts. vRA Software Component won’t properly install IIS Found older Windows version uses Add-WindowsFeature, not Install-WindowsFeature Had to test if-statement for automation Learned that Powershell 2.0 no longer supported Installed WMF 5.0 to get Powershell 5.0 Guest Customization now broken – need C++… Read More
Replacing Expired PSC and VCSA Certificates
Task at hand: Replace the now-expired Machine SSL Certificates of the (still) external PSC and VCSA. By now, there are several different blog posts about how to replace the Machine SSL Certificate using the built-in Certificate Manager tool for the PSC and VCSA. I originally performed this operation after migrating from vSphere 5.5 to vSphere… Read More
