Random Technology thoughts from an Irish Virtualization Geek (who enjoys saving the world in his spare time).
I use nested hosts for just about all of my testing, whether in my homelab or when kicking the tyres on something in my VMware corporate lab. One thing that used to frustrate me no end was that my VCF ESXi upgrades (especially from ESXi 6.7 to ESXi 7.0) would regularly fail. At first I... Continue Reading →
I've long suffered issues with random failures of the New-PSDrive command in our lab automation when attempting to mount datastores to either query or upload content. For example, running this command New-PSDrive -Location $DatastoreObject -Name DS -PSProvider VimDatastore -Root "\" > $null Will work fine over and over, but occasionally will result in an error... Continue Reading →
Its been a while, but we are finally welcoming the disaster recovery solution back into the family in the form of the Site Protection and Disaster Recovery Validated Solution for VMware Cloud Foundation. It reintroduces Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication in combination with NSX-T Federation to allow recovery of SDDC Management components such as... Continue Reading →
If you've checked out the Planning & Preparation (P&P) Workbook for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) or VMware Validated Design (VVD) in the past, then you are in for some change with this latest release. We introduced this workbook back in the VCF 4.0/VVD 6.0 days in an attempt to evolve the planning experience from a... Continue Reading →
Wow. Its been a minute since I posted. Thats because we have been furiously beavering away on the evolution of VMware Validated Design (VVD). Those of you familiar with VVD will know that it was an end to end validated cloud stack that included design and detailed implementation steps required to deploy a Software-Defined Data... Continue Reading →
Rather than give you all a nose bleed with the 500 lines of JSON input I used in my lab, I thought it might be easier to just show you a sample JSON snippet and some PowerShell code to read it in and various ways to reference it. That way when you see variables in... Continue Reading →
So its been a busy couple of months for me - if not for my blog. In that time I've started with the VMware ISBU team working on VVD and VCF, alternating between drinking from the firehose, getting to know the team and figuring out where the bathrooms are 🙂 Personally its really exciting. I'm... Continue Reading →
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