This post will list the top 10 sessions over at VMworld 2021 that personally interest me. VMworld 2021 will be online again this year, which for me personally is great! So let’s not waste any time and get right into it. Note that these are not in order of my favorites. Build and Publish a PowerShell Module to the …

Hi, As the vExpert 2021 Second Half applications open on June 7th and close on July 9th (click here for the latest schedule), I’d like to talk about what a vExpert Pro is and how they can help new applicants with their vExpert application. Members of the vExpert Pro program are there to support new applicants with …

Hi everyone, An urgent post for anyone on vCenter 6.5, 6.7 or 7.0! NOTE: The information below is a snapshot of the VMSA-2021-0010 page, and this page may not be updated anymore after the post. For the latest information, I redirect you to the VMSA-2021-0010 link. UPDATE: VMware just made a blog post with advise, …

Hi everyone, It’s been a while since I have posted here. An update on what has been going on will follow soon, however, this post will be about my experience with the VMC on AWS Guided Hands-On Workshop I took as part of a VMUG. I have to say, overall it went pretty good. This was the first time that they were doing …

Hi everyone, In this post, I want to highlight an issue I had. I wanted to create a VPN Service, connected to a Tier 0 gateway. But none of my tier 0 gateways would show up. I couldn’t find any information on this, not even in the documentation (it’s well hidden and unless you know what to look for, it’s not easily …

Hi everyone, For this post, we’re going to look into all the gear I have in my lab. Note that these are all links and prices that I paid for at the time. Let’s start with compute. I will list a table here of the servers. NOTE: This BoM is outdated and is yet to be updated pending upgrades that I'm saving up for. …

Hi everyone, For those who follow me and sometimes chat with me, you probably know that I am a big fan of VMware TestDrive. I don’t hear a lot about it, but I think it’s something great and very useful. What is VMware TestDrive exactly? To quote them: “With ready-made integrations with some of our most popular …

Hi everyone, I applied for the second-half vExpert applications and I got accepted! This is the first time and I’m really, really happy! This is my fourth attempt and here is to hopefully more years of vExpert. Here is my public profile page. If you don’t know what vExpert is, you are missing out on a lot, quoting from …

Hi everyone, Here is how I upgraded my NSX-T deployment from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1. If you tried to in-place update a NSX-T Host that has multiple host switches, you will get an error. You can use this trick to get around this limitation. First, we log into the NSX-T Manager, and go to the Upgrade tab under system. Here, we …

Hi everyone, In this post, we will be deploying a PyKMIP server that stores its keys in a database. Unlike the docker container, the keys will be saved so on a reboot your keys are not lost. So what exactly is this for? Well, in my use-case, I will be using this server to encrypted virtual machine files and drives. For …