I can still kinda, sorta remember the day....the day when, many years ago, I passed the A+ certification exam. Honestly, I "lucked out" in how I got into IT in the first place. I went to UNC-Charlotte (back when there was no football team), finally settling on Marketing as my major because I was sure … Continue reading Happiest Certification Feeling Ever….maybe!!!
Change RAM allocated to VMs within Citrix Machine Catalogs
This may be one of those posts that ends up being more beneficial for me than you in that what follows here is the type of information/tweak I'll forget about pretty quickly. Then I'll need it again and slap myself for not writing it down, leading me to do several Google searches until I find … Continue reading Change RAM allocated to VMs within Citrix Machine Catalogs
Netscaler Load Balancing for vCD 9
As mentioned in my previous post, after my upgrade to vCloud Director version 9, I was unable to access vCD via the load balanced virtual IP. We use a Netscaler HA pair for load balancing in this environment, and since I was able to hit the individual vCD cells just fine, this is where I … Continue reading Netscaler Load Balancing for vCD 9
Upgrade to vCloud Director 9
Last week VMware announced the official release of vCloud Director 9. Ever since hearing about this release at VMworld 2017, I've been excited about having the chance to give it a run in production. There are already some great blog posts out there now on the latest features. The other night I decided to upgrade … Continue reading Upgrade to vCloud Director 9
Citrix Receiver Command Line Helper Tool
Do you ever find yourself installing Citrix Receiver? Maybe you've found this to be true, especially in business use cases, but I have found that if I don't install the Receiver with command line options it does not work the way I need or want it to. I also find myself getting frustrated when trying … Continue reading Citrix Receiver Command Line Helper Tool
“Converting” an Existing EC2 Instance to an Elastic GPU
For some time, I have been running an AWS EC2 G2.2xlarge instance to keep from buying a laptop to run Photoshop. With the introduction of Elastic GPUs, I was interested in "converting" that VM to a T2.large instance with an eg1.large Elastic GPU that I believe should save me about $.40 per hour of operation. … Continue reading “Converting” an Existing EC2 Instance to an Elastic GPU
More on AWS Elastic GPUs
First, as this is my first post here, I'd like to say thanks to Adam for allowing me to join Virtual Bonzo as an author. For a few years now I've had the pleasure to work along side Adam and now we're blogging....I look forward to working with him on this medium, as I think … Continue reading More on AWS Elastic GPUs
Add UCS vNICs causes vmnic re-order on vSphere host
I recently stumbled upon this issue when adding some new vNICs for use with a new iSCSI storage array. I followed the usual order of operations for our UCS B-series blades: create new vNIC templates, add the vNICs to the LAN Connectivity Policy in UCS Manager, put first vSphere host in the cluster into maintenance … Continue reading Add UCS vNICs causes vmnic re-order on vSphere host
VCAP6-DCV Deploy – It’s a pass!
I finally took the exam, and got the good news about an hour after I hit the "finish" button. I passed the VCAP deploy exam! There were a couple quirks I ran into that I thought could have negatively affected my score, but at this point I'm just happy with the pass! As someone who … Continue reading VCAP6-DCV Deploy – It’s a pass!
VMworld Recap
VMworld US is a wrap! My original intent was to have a daily recap, and after scrambling to get day #1 up there, I realized that was probably biting off more than I could chew. As I've learned with tech conferences, it is always hard to squeeze everything you want into 3-4 days. My week … Continue reading VMworld Recap