Over the last couple of years I have seen friends sit various VCAP exams and tell me their experiences of them (nothing NDA breaking) and I always thought to myself that it wasn’t for me, please don’t misunderstand, I am… Continue Reading
So I had to look recently at a mechanism that could mass deploy over 100 VM’s at a time, these had to be a mix of Windows and Linux, had to have the potential to include not only IP addressing… Continue Reading
In a post from last year I documented how to create a CentOS 7 VMware Gold Template for all the non-Linux admins out there. There were questions at the time on me not leaving this in a fully cleaned state… Continue Reading
Over the years I have experienced a lot of VMware training, whether that’s been with a VMware VATC (VMware Approved Training Centre), Directly with VMware or via the VMware Academy route. My previous VCP 4 and 5 training has been… Continue Reading
I first attended the VMware NSX ICM Course last year with the excellent Paul McSharry as my instructor, unfortunately NSX took a back seat as far as a technology stack was concerned so I kept putting taking the exam, then… Continue Reading
I have been running the Condusiv Technologies V-locity 5 software on a couple of test machines in my home lab over the last couple of days, alongside those VMs I also ran a couple of VM’s with the older V-locity… Continue Reading
So I was recently offered the chance to test drive V-locity 5 to see how it compared against the previous V-locity VM product that I tested nearly two years ago, one of the big differences between the two products is… Continue Reading
I have been a fan of both Nick Weaver’s WP-vSphereStats and Sean Duffy’s fork of that – vMetrics Plugin for WordPress but one of the things missing from vMetrics was additional Clusters. I asked on Twitter if anyone knew how… Continue Reading
With the release yesterday of vCenter 6.0.0b I decided to do a quick post on how to patch your VCSA appliance. Please download VCSA patch from here.
Nearly two years ago I was given the opportunity to take out the Condusiv Technologies V-locity VM version 4 product for a spin in my home lab, the results were pretty positive and certainly something I would suggest to anyone… Continue Reading