Cloud

A collection of 15 posts

Rubrik Drops 3.2 - Cloud Clusters and More!

Today the fine folks over at Rubrik dropped their 3.2 release and it is packed with quite a few nifty little features, especially for a .2 release. Quick aside here, if you dont follow the below folks on social media you're missing out. They have at least

25 Apr 2017 4 min read

Cloud

Dell EMC {code} Catalyst Program Launch!

Let's blow the dust off this blog... To say that my industry has evolved a lot since my last blog post would be a bit of an understatement. In fact it has changed to such a degree that probably merits a blog post of it's own,

06 Dec 2016 3 min read

Ccnp

Q3 Wrap Up - Life is a whirlwind

Those of you that read this blog with any sort of frequency probably realize that I tend to produce more install/configure or break/fix type posts than anything else. This post is a departure from that paradigm, at least for a little while. Life has been crazy lately, so

14 Aug 2014 2 min read

Cloud

VMware Fusion 6.0 - Hung Resuming VM

I haven't blogged in ages and I have lots to share in a more thought thorough post - but for now, a quick fix. Twice now I have run into this problem on my Windows 8 VM in Fusion 6 so I figured it's time to

01 Aug 2014 2 min read

Auto Deploy

Varrow Madness 2014 - Auto Deploy, Image Profiles, and Host Profiles Slide Deck

Another Varrow Madness is behind us, and the feeling is bittersweet. So much fun and such great content, but I would be lying if I didn't say that we all look forward to it every year. It was a huge success with a great speaker, Shawn Achor [http:

25 Mar 2014 1 min read

Cloud

PernixData FVP 1.5 Reinstall

One of my favorite things to do is try to squeeze as much performance out of my home lab without buying more expensive gear or generating excessive amounts of heat since I already have space and cooling issues in my 15x15 office at home (yay townhouse). To that end, PernixData

28 Feb 2014 6 min read

Cloud

PEX Recap - Time for VCDX!

On the 14th I returned from VMware PEX in San Francisco, California and man, what a trip. First of all if you haven't been to San Francisco, the city itself is worth the trip. Extremely hilly, but full of delicious food, great coffee, wine, the arts, you name

27 Feb 2014 4 min read

Cloud

vSphere 5.5 Web Client Console - Works in Windows not in OSX - vCenter Storage Appliance

Quick post cause my googling didn't point me in the right direction but as usual Jason Nash [http://jasonnash.com/] did. Had an issue with the vSphere 5.5 web client on the VCSA in my lab where it would launch from a Windows machine but not from

19 Feb 2014 1 min read

Certification

My VCAP-DCA experience

On December 3rd of last year I took the VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 - Data Center Administration exam. For those of you that know me, I thought for sure I had failed it for sure. I didn't finish all the questions, I wasn't 100% sure

03 Feb 2014 4 min read

Cloud

VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices won't start - vCenter 5.1

I ran into an interesting issue at the tail end of a project not to long ago. Updated a customer's vCenter and his Hosts from 4.1 to 5.1, which amazingly enough went off without a hitch. We were about to head out when I realized that

26 Oct 2013 3 min read

Cloud

You guys are gonna love this - vCenter 5.1 SSO Password Recovery Using SQL

Hey all, as per my last post I tested altering the password in the SSO DB and it worked! Watch the below video for instructions on how to get it done: from on [Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/)Always back up your database before modifying it directly if you are inexperienced

17 Aug 2013

Cloud

SQLing my way around the "Authorization Exception" Domain Logon Error in vSphere 5.1

Here's the situation. A customer had some AD issues related to botched DCs that were incorrectly P2V'd for whatever reason. As a result the customer had to open a trouble ticket with Microsoft and forcibly remove the DCs from AD as DCPROMO was not working properly.

15 Aug 2013 2 min read

Cloud

PCIe Parallel Port Passthrough w/ VMware Workstation 9

My neighbor Dave works for they are a small shop out of Sparta, TN and their infrastructure is very minimal since they don't really have a dedicated IT Pro. The other day they asked me where to find a hardware capable of running Windows 98. Needless to say

10 Apr 2013 2 min read

Cisco

UCS - Persist WWNN & WWPN With New Service Profile From Template

I have been looking for an excuse to blog about something other than CloudGateway and thankfully, I finally found it today (aww c'mon Citrix, you know I love you baby). I had someone ask me how they could create a new Service Profile from a Service Profile template

07 Feb 2013 1 min read

Arp

Back Home, Varrow, and NetScalers... oh my?

That was a long blogging break wasn't it? I just realized I haven't posted here in 7 months. I have an excuse for 4 of them: I was at the Signal Basic Officer Leadership course at Fort Gordon, GA. It was a good learning experience, I

26 Aug 2012 5 min read

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