Archive
This year's posts
- - Building an Azure lab environment via ARM templates - Part3 Saving Money with Auto Shutdown
- - Building an Azure lab environment via ARM templates - Part2 Adding a VM to your network
- - Building an Azure lab environment via ARM tempaltes - Part1 ARM Templates 101
- - Book Review - The Second Machine Age
- - Fixing Layout issues after forcing HTTPS on GitHub Pages for a Jekyll based site
- - Using the Azure Load Balancer in reverse to funnel all outgoing traffic via a single IP
- - Exam Experience - 70-533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions - (Post Jan 2018 Updates)
2017
- - Gotcha when importing client certificates for Azure P2S VPN
- - Leveraging Keepass via Powershell-Part 2
- - Leveraging Keepass via Powershell to Keep Passwords Out of Scripts
2016
- - VCIX-NV Exam Experience
- - PowerCLI running in a Docker Container on Photon OS in under 10 minutes
- - ssh to Cygwin fails after Computer joins domain
- - Newly created vsphere.local SSO user gets username/password error
- - Reasons to upgrade NSX 6.0/6.1 to 6.2
2015
- - vSphere vApps unaffected by Back to 28 Vulnerability (CVE-2015-8370)
- - ESXi and AD Part 2 Joining a Domain without Domain Admin Privileges
- - ESXi and AD Part 1 - Integration Checklist
- - VMworld Europe Schedule and New things to do this time
- - I am not a N00b! - Telling vCenter to stop showing you getting started pages!
- - All hail the PSC - Long Live the appliance!
- - VCP-NV=EZ
- - The iSCSI Mystery (+Death to e1000s)
- - New Domain, Github Hosted, Jekyll built!
- - Upgrading your HomeLab to Windows 10 + VMware Workstation ??
- - Devops/Agile/Webscale....too many terms too little time- DevOPs Tools and Terms Cheat Sheet
- - Training Resource Review - Pluralsight + Jason Nash's NSX Courses
- - VMware News Roundup - Announcement-ageddon!!!
- - 32Gb vSphere Homelab stumbling block - Licensing dilemma
- - VCAP-DCA510 Failing to pass doesn't mean failing to learn
- - Host Profiles to the Rescue!
- - My Real-World VCAP Scenario to test scripting
- - Google doesn't answer Forums/Communities posts.....YOU do!
- - My vSphere HomeLab
- - Best VCAP Study Aid is another person's time & help
2014
- - Networking - North-South, East-West. Don't be embarrassed to ask
- - VMworld - Finally at the Frontier!
- - vExpert - Why go for it?
- - vSphere VM Hotplug functionality confuses AD GPO and locks out non system drives
- - Getting Back on the Horse! (Destination VCAP5-DCA)
- - UCS Manager Security Hardening (or not) in a vBlock
- - ESXi/vCenter hardening (inventory service issue)
- - VCP5 Passed - Grasp The Nettle! (VCAP next)
- - Allowing automated installs of newer VMtools than the host version (Caveat for Trend Deep Security)
- - Watchlist - Mobile app to monitor hosts and VMS in vSphere
- - VCP5 Lab Tweak - vApp/HA for one?
- - VCP5 - NPIV, why? Because you can!
- - VCP5 Study. Pay it forward - An unexpected source of revision/practice
- - VCP5 Revision WWTWCD - What Would The Web Client Do?!
- - VCP5 - Ditching Auto-Deploy!
- - VCP 5 - Objective 1.2 - Host/Configuration Tab (in essence!)
- - Sometimes Windows is just better - Configuring RHLES OS updates with mrepo/RHN
- - Answered-Can you Daisy Chain VMware Update Manager Download Service?
- - VCP5 Auto Deploy - Much more than just an automated ESXi install
- - VCP5 Objective 1.2 “Quickly” Deploying Using AutoDeploy - Take 2
- - VCP5 - Objective 1.2 "Quickly" Deploying Using AutoDeploy (3hrs later!!! ;-)
- - VCP5 - Fixing SSL Cert on newly deployed vCenter Server Appliance after changing IP
- - VCP5- My Lab Components
- - VCP5 - Me and my virtual history
- - VCP 5 - The Journey Begins
2013
2012
2011
- - VTSP - VMWare Certification and Accreditation...not mutually exclusive!
- - The evils of snapshots!
- - Sync/Backups - There is such a thing as a free lunch! (SyncToy)
- - Time waits for no man, or member server - The Importance of Time Synchronisation in Windows 2008 Domains
- - ESXi Whitebox Configuration
- - Supply and Demand : The Crazy Price of NICs
- - FIX-No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!
- - Free Alternatives to Popular Software Programs
- - Comparison of Free Online Sync Providers