This post serves as a current update on what’s running in my lab, with pictures. Let’s do the front: We see 9 servers. They are all HP ProLiant servers. From top to bottom: DL360p G8, DL380 G7, DL380p G8, DL360p G8, DL380p G8, DL360p G8, DL360p G8, DL380p G8, DL360 G6. Here’s a table, in order from top to bottom. The …

Read More

With power pricing getting severely out of hand (well, it has been for months now), I figured I should do my part. Currently, my lab consists of four ESXi servers, two storage servers, one backup server and one personal tinkering server. My ESXi cluster has always ran on about 1.5 hosts worth of redundancy. In order to …

Read More

While everyone is going to make their “new year’s resolutions” I had been thinking of.. What would I like to do in 2023, in an ideal world? (where money isn’t an issue, that is). In terms of professional development there are a couple of trainings and certifications I would like to go for. Not only to brush up on some …

Read More

Today while I installed two new servers in the rack, I had to mount some iSCSI datastores to these servers as I also have them mounted on other servers. I wrote a quick script to do this because I am lazy, and decided to share it here in case it may be useful: 1#!/bin/bash 2 3esxcfg-volume -l > /tmp/dump.log 4cat …

Read More

What is the vExpert program and most importantly, what has it done for me? That’s what this blog post is about. The video can be found here. Here is the explanation of the vExpert program carefully quoted from their site: “The VMware vExpert program is VMware’s global evangelism and advocacy program. The program is …

Read More

VMware has launched a new certification. The VMware Cloud Professional – VMware Cloud 2022 certification (yes, that is a mouthful to say over Zoom). In short, let’s call it VCP-VMC 2022 for now. It was first introduced in this post from VMware. This certificate aims to prove that the holder has sufficient knowledge of …

Read More

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 …

Read More

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 …

Read More

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 …

Read More

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 …

Read More