VMware

VMworld - Live Coding: Terraforming Your vSphere Environment Infrastructure as code is the process of managing infrastructure in a file or a set of files rather than manually configuring resources in a user interface. This session is going to take a live look at how to make the process of getting starting with infrastructure as code in a VMware vSphere environment as easy as possible using HashiCorp Terraform, the de facto standard for infrastructure as code. Oct 26, 2021 - 1 min read
PSConfEU - vSphere Security Compliance in a DevOps World PSConfEU is Europe’s largest PowerShell conference and this year I had the distinct pleasure of not only attending, but also presenting! It is 4 days of non-stop PowerShell knowledge bombs in just about every area you can think of and I had a blast! Jul 15, 2019 - 1 min read
PSConfEU - Manage vSphere with PowerCLI DSC Resources, Finally! PSConfEU is Europe’s largest PowerShell conference and this year I had the distinct pleasure of not only attending, but also presenting! It is 4 days of non-stop PowerShell knowledge bombs in just about every area you can think of and I had a blast! Jul 14, 2019 - 1 min read
PowerCLI - Accurately Sorting VMTool Versions Keeping a VM’s VMware Tools up-to-date is an important role to anyone whom administers a VMware environment. VMware Tools provide the latest and greatest drivers and provides easy access in order to interact with the underlying guest OS, like performing power options gracefully. Jun 12, 2019 - 2 min read
PowerCLI - Disk Space Utilization - .NET Object Referencing documentation is one of those things that seems overwhelming at first, but ends up becoming fundamental. I’m working on a series of posts where I take specific tasks and show how to refer to the documentation to accomplish the task. Feb 24, 2019 - 3 min read
PowerCLI - Disk Space Utilization - vSphere Object Referencing documentation is one of those things that seems overwhelming at first, but ends up becoming fundamental. I’m working on a series of posts where I take specific tasks and show how to refer to the documentation to accomplish the task. Feb 24, 2019 - 5 min read
PowerCLI - Documentation Overview Documentation is an important part of the automation and development process. When I first started using PowerCLI, I found the docs to be overwhelming and confusing. As my PowerCLI knowledge grew, I started to use them more and more. Feb 24, 2019 - 4 min read
PowerCLI - Datastore Cluster Migrations I found something interesting the other day, from someone that mentioned it to me, you can’t move a datastore cluster between folders in the UI! No worries, PowerCLI to the rescue! Feb 14, 2019 - 1 min read
PowerCLI - Finding VMware Tools Information A recent knowledge base (KB) article was released regarding an issue impacting a specific version of VMware Tools. The KB in question is 57796, which describes the possibility of a guest level network connectivity issues or even a purple diagnostic screen (PSOD). Sep 10, 2018 - 4 min read
DCLI - Finding the NSX Version for my VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC VMware Cloud on AWS is making a switch to the underlying networking and security platform for the service. This move is being done in order to provide access to services such as distributed firewall, security groups, route-based VPN connections, and more. Sep 8, 2018 - 3 min read