It’s a new year, which means it’s time to learn new things! For the past 6 months, I’ve wanted to dive deeper into Ansible as a way to continuously force myself to write code in python. Naturally,...
Nested ESXi Shutdown Bug
I recently decided to update my home lab with some new gear. The old 3 node cluster worked well however, I was running out of capacity and frankly they took up too much space in my office. I plan t...
So Long vSphere C# Client
Yep, here we go again. If you haven’t heard the news yet, VMware announced today that they are deprecating the C# client and going all in with a HTML5 web client. You can read the release here. Per...
VCAP-DCA Thoughts and Experience
It’s been about a year since I decided to sit for both the VCAP-DCA and VCAP-DCD, but due to a job change and the proverbial drinking-from-the-firehose that has come with it, I have had to put th...
VMworld 2015
It’s that special time of year again – when all of the vNerds from all walks of life congregate in beautiful downtown San Francisco for one weeks’ time, and engage in all things V. This will be my...
VMUG Presentation Experiencev
At the end of December, I created a list of things I wanted to accomplish in 2015; one of the items on that list was to present at my local VMUG. Now, there were two main reasons I wanted to presen...
New Journey
I have been meaning to write this post for over a week now but between being out of town and moving it’s been delayed. So here I am sitting in my car, listening to the ‘In Tech We Trust’ podcast, w...