It seems like VMware has listened to the overall feedback that they have received. Usually sysadmins do not agree with each other on a large scale. But one opinion was broadly agreed on; vSphere’s QA was horrible (insert production is QA meme here). Thankfully, VMware has listened to us. On October 5th, they …

Hi readers, Today’s post will be about my experience with having a startup becoming a VMware Partner, where I will explain all the things that I encountered. Both good and bad, so here we go. First of all during the sign-up process you pay a fee, this was $895 at the time of registering. Will I renew it? No. I will …

Hi, Today I was tinkering around with Azure and Terraform. I’ve been working on creating a Azure Web App based off of Linux. However I ran into the following error: Failure sending request: StatusCode=0 — Original Error: autorest/azure: Service returned an error. Status= This was caused by two things. Per the docs, the …

It’s that time of the year again, time to update my blog post about my current homelab! Here’s a picture of the front, from top to bottom; ESXi1 ESXi2 ESXi3 From the rear; ESXi1 ESXi2 ESXi3 EdgeSwitch 24 Lite EdgeRouter 10X You’ll notice that the iLO port is ESXi1 isn’t plugged in on the picture, I plugged it in …

Hi, In this post I want to point out the mistakes I have made when deploying Tanzu Community Edition, what I learned from it, how not to make those mistakes and what ended up happening with how I fixed it. So for those who don’t know Tanzu Community Edition is kind of a bit like Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, vSphere with …

This post you are reading is a follow-up to the older post I made here: Ordering VMware Cloud on AWS through AWS as a private individual. In that post, I talked about how you can consume the VMware Cloud on AWS service while getting billed to your AWS Billing account, meaning no $1000 credit card fee*, and you can use …

In this post I’d like to shed some light onto a new HOL, which is all about CloudHealth. For those who don’t know CloudHealth is used for, it’s used for cost management, automation, security among other uses for the Cloud. This not just the usual SDDC, but also Public Clouds, like Oracle, Azure, AWS, IBM Cloud, etc. …

This post I’ll be taking another look at VLC again, a powershell script that can be used to deploy a nested VMware Cloud Foundation lab. VLC, which can be downloaded here, is a powershell script that makes it easy to deploy a nested VCF lab. It’ll take care of creating the nested ESXi hosts, all the way to doing the …

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 …

In this post, we will be deploying a single node VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC. An SDDC is a software-defined data center. VMware Cloud on AWS combines the power and services of AWS and their infrastructure, with the well-known VMware SDDC stack. (vSphere (ESXi), vCenter, vSAN and NSX Data Center). To get started, we head …