A week or two ago, a team of the great people at VMware got together to create a VMware appliance, in order to help out with the Folding@Home project. The project has been around for many years but Amanda Blevins was instrumental in galvanizing the VMware community to donate their spare CPU/GPU cycles to the [...]
A couple of weeks back, I sat and cleared the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional exam. Thought it would be good to share how I prepared for the exam so here it is. I was originally planning to take the exam a lot earlier than how it turned out it in the end. Various [...]
On one of my vRealize Automation engagements, I was asked by my customer to integrate their vRealize Automation environment with their externally-hosted ServiceNow implementation. Now, this was a typical distributed environment and Orchestrator was buried deep inside a subnet, along with other servers within the deployment. Obviously, the machines talked to each other fine but for [...]
My daughter has her own Wordpress.com blog where she posts articles about whatever she finds interesting. A few days back, she asked me if she could have a ISP-hosted Wordpress blog, as she now wants have more control over things like themes and plugins etc. Before investing any money into it, I wanted to see just how [...]
I happen to have two Synology boxes in my lab (DS213+ and DS412+) and I try to keep them updated as much as I can. Recently, DSM 5.1 was released which applies to both of them so this weekend, I took a few minutes to update both of my devices. DSM 5.1 brings a lot [...]
Recently, after an upgrade to my vCenter machine, I was left with a situation where a couple of things broke in vCenter Orchestrator. One of those was a broken password, forcing me to reset the password back to the default. The other was some corruption somewhere, ending up displaying the following error when I clicked [...]
You must be thinking: Not another VCAP-DCD exam experience post! But it's customary now-a-days to blog about one's VCAP exam experience. Mine has been outstanding for a while so today, I am correcting that. Like a lot of other people, I also flunked the test the first time. It wasn't that I was complacent about [...]
In Part I of this post, I covered two of the four steps that I think are involved in doing a VMware Capacity Planner exercise. In this post, I will cover the other two and hopefully, you'll find the tips found in these posts of some use. So, here goes: 3. Collection Once the collectors [...]
Recently, I was on an engagement where use of VMware Capacity Planner was required, to get an estimate of consolidation ratios. This was done in order to build a business case for virtualization. Now I know that this is not a topic that many are interested in as it's not a "core" virtualization component but [...]
There are times when a virtual machine might start rebooting or shut down completely, due to one or more snapshots for that machine getting corrupt. Depending on the type of failure, recovery from such a situation is possible and at times, with all data intact. For example, when a backup solution takes a snapshot as [...]