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 let's have a recap! Following PEX in February, I announced in this post that I was going to take on a VCDX and that's pretty much where I left it. Since then, lots has changed, here's an abridged list: I changed jobs, not companies, I still work for the best…
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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 share this with the world as well as document it for myself. That way next time I don't need to rely on my google-fu to fix the issue. Let me set the stage - Suspend seems to be more problem than it is worth with Fusion6 and Win8 at least in my case. Every…
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, check out his Ted Talk if you havent. Also, we had some AMAZING speakers including but not limited to Scott Lowe, Chris Colotti, Jim French, Mike Foley, Chad Sakac, Rick Scherer, and of course, The Jason Nash. In addition to these big names there were a host of other industry experts from both…
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 FVP seemed like a perfect fit. These guys are awesome and one of their Engineers, Charlie Gautreaux has been really helpful as far as aiding me in getting this set up in our Greensboro lab and my home lab. Smarter people than me (for instance Nash, and Wahl) have already…
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 it. I consider myself a bit of a pizza snob being from very near New Haven, CT which is basically Mecca for the pizza lover. However, my friend and co-worker Tom Queen outshines me in this discipline to an exponential degree, and he had nothing but positive things to say about the…
Quick post cause my googling didn't point me in the right direction but as usual Jason Nash 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 an OSX machine even with the plugin installed on the Mac. Here's what I saw when it was broken. Turns out it's am issue with the environment variables for JAVA_HOME on the VCSA. This KB article walks you through fixing it, but doesn't mention the case where it works in Windows but not in…
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 I had done the ones I did finish completely and correctly. Essentially, I had moved on and assumed I was going to have to retest. On December 12th I received an email notification that I had passed. Needless to say I was ecstatic and so was the rest of my office because they no…
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 the Management Webservices weren't started. Although not a big deal I definitely wanted it sorted out so that he was able to view all his performance graphs and whatnot within the vSphere client. If you are too short on time for my horror story, just read the TLDR bullets at the end…