Time for a book review. This book was released in November last year so I know it's a bit late but I've just got my hands on it. I hope you won't mind. It is written by Mike Greer and is just over 300 pages long, divided into 13 chapters. It starts with a brief [...]
A few days back, Corey Romero asked me if I am interested in co-hosting a CrowdChat session on vSphere. Having never been on CrowdChat, jumping from nothing to co-hosting seemed a bit intimidating but I've always liked a challenge so I said yes. Plus, this was another something that I could do for this amazing community easily [...]
Chances are that unless you are an organisation new to vSphere or want an installation in the lab, you will be upgrading your existing vSphere infrastructure to the new vSphere 6.0 at some point in the future. As there are some design changes in this version, there are decision points that must be considered before [...]
We all know the pains that vSphere Certificate management presents us with. While VMware's Certificate Administration tool has made life a bit simpler, it is still quite a chore to generate requests, get the certificates (in the right format) and installing it in the right order. It was also quite a bit of work to [...]
The vSphere development team has done a great job in maintaining the same look and feel when it comes to interface of the new vSphere 6.0. Of course, there are minor changes due to new features but if you've been using previous versions of vSphere, you'll have no trouble navigating through the new version. However, don't [...]
As this year draws to a close and I review my performance as a passionate virtualisation enthusiast, this has been an "OK" year. My aim this year was to contribute more; both professionally and to the community. While I am happy that I did go some way in achieving that, I do feel that it could [...]
This post is about a very useful one-liner I use often and one that has saved me a lot of headache in the past. I tweeted about this one earlier in the year as well but thought this one actually deserves a blog post so that it's not lost in the large space that is [...]
... and so the last day was upon me. Sort of a reality check that all the learning and meeting people is going to end (not to mention the great weather!) and soon it'll be time to say goodbyes. I've found that checking out is much easier if you're too early or too late. If [...]
Day 3 for me started with the general session. This time, I chose to sit in the blogger's area, instead of the hall, which turned out to be the right decision. Comfortable seating and a table in front meant I could use my laptop to tweet as announcements were being made. Anyway, focus for the [...]
Well, the start to day 2 wasn't too great - my laptop's WiFi broke at the wrong time! I guess there's never a right time to have a broken adapter but it's time to buy another one! Anyway, managed to get the already delayed blog post about the previous two days out that I hope you've [...]