I was invited to participate as a delegate for Cloud Field Day 13 from Feb. 16 - 18, 2022 in San Jose, CA. Check out my day one recap if you missed it earlier. Day two consisted of presentations from VMware and Metallic. VMware VMware spent the first half of the day focused on their … Continue reading CFD13 Day Two Recap – VMware and Metallic
It wasn't all too long ago that cloud computing seemed like something only bleeding edge tech companies took seriously. Cloud is now fairly ubiquitous in the current world of tech. The recent pandemic helped accelerate this trajectory, but it was undeniable that cloud would become a main player in enterprise IT. This cloud boom has … Continue reading Whose cloud is it anyway? Recap from Cloud Field Day 10
Most of us are living in a new world where work from home is the norm and traditional tech conferences are turning into online events. I do love attending these shows in person and engaging with others in the vCommunity, although virtual conferences like vForum Online are still a great opportunity to engage with thousands … Continue reading vForum Online – May 13, 2020
Recently I was tasked with migrating View Composer from one VM to another. Typically, this is a fairly straightforward task, but on this day the installation of View Composer on the new server failed/rolled back almost as soon as I clicked the Install button. When doing a quick Event Viewer search, I saw an event … Continue reading Quick Hit – View Composer Install Exits with Code 1603
It's been a good while since I've had a "tech tip" type of post, let alone one that is pretty short. I've gotten a good bit of hands on with VMC on AWS recently, with a whole lot more to come, so I'll probably have a good chance to get more of these out in … Continue reading VMC on AWS – No Compatible Subnets Found
So my blog journey begins! This is my first post, which was inspired by many others in the vExpert community that I have been following as I prep for my VCAP 6 DCV Deploy exam. My VCAP journey actually began about a year and a half ago, when I was "volunteered" to achieve the VCAP … Continue reading VCAP 6 DCV Deploy exam prep
I'm currently sitting in an airport for flight #2 of 3 within a three week period. This is pretty rare for me, but I'm thrilled that flight #3 will be out to Silicon Valley for Tech Field Day 19 next week! The TFD crew has an amazing week lined up, and I'm excited to meet … Continue reading I’ll be at Tech Field Day 19 next week!
So I install a lot of ESX on Cisco UCS booting off of internal SD cards and as you may know in the world of vSphere; SD cards, USB drives and boot from ISCSI LUNs are all considered non-persistent storage. So it's always been common practice to create a log directory on a shared datastore and … Continue reading Syslog configuration from esxcli
VMware held their second annual Empower US conference in Atlanta, GA last week. Empower is a stand-alone partner conference that replaces the Partner Exchange conferences of the past. I was lucky to have attended again this year, and was impressed at the work VMware put in to improve upon last year's conference.The highlight for me … Continue reading VMware Empower 2019 Recap
The new year is well under way, and with 2019 in full swing, tech conference chatter will start to heat up. While VMworld is just over six months away, there are still opportunities to get your dose of VMware updates well before then. One of those opportunities is VMware's vForum Online, which will take place … Continue reading VMware vForum Online 2019
