Author Archives: Kenyon Hensler

I use a Let’s Encrypt certificate on my VCSA. It validates and give me a pretty padlock in my address bar. Generally I use a wildcard cert for all my services but vCenter wont take that. So I have a “regular” server certificate for vCenter. As with all Let’s Encrypt certificates it expires regularly. ThisContinue reading “Certificate Replacement on vCenter”

With the release of the converged VDS (CVDS) in ESXi 7 NSX-T users are able to convert back to a vCenter managed VDS. This helps in reducing management overhead for the environment and you can read all about it elsewhere. For people who have a multi transport VLAN confguration on your N-VDS the regular migrationContinue reading “Multi Cluster NSX-T NVDS to VDS Migration”

My calendar has been pretty packed recently. I’m covering an extra territory, interviewing people for positions, doing internal training, and a bunch of other things. With all that I have had some times when I’ve been septuple booked. That’s seven meetings at once. When they are all important how do you pick which one toContinue reading “Calendar Roulette”

Does anyone else remember trying to programmatically read exchange emails back in 2009? What a pain it was. At the time I was on the Fulton County help desk. I would take calls and emails then turn them into tickets. It was painful. So I automated it… I was using Perl at the time. ThereContinue reading “Microsoft Graph and Salesforce”

I’ve got TDS DSL at a location. I was using their modem/router/wifi device for a while but wanted to have a site to site vpn to another location that didn’t require funky routing. So I picked up a pfSense box to use as the router. I hooked it up and everything seemed OK. Got myContinue reading “TDS DSL Bridge Mode”

This is probably a little sales specific but since I spent some time writing some automation figured I’d post it. I was tired of having to go through all of my open opportunities in Salesforce (SFDC). The lightning version that is being pushed out is SOOOO SLOWWWWW. To the point of being almost unusable (forContinue reading “Salesforce Automation”

I’ve been learning a little bit of assembly over the last few days. Why in the world would I want to learn assembly? I don’t know. Why not? The code I’ve been writing has been a very simple boot loader. I followed another tutorial on how to get it to load and write some text.Continue reading “Binary Coded Decimal and Assembly”

After getting ESXi on PI working I started to wonder what is it really useful for. Outside of just playing with it I wasn’t able to come up with anything besides a VPN client. I have to much x86_64 compute to need extra compute at home. So I decided to do something silly. Running aContinue reading “VeloCloud Edge on PI 4”

As everyone has probably seen VMware released ESXi on ARM. They happened to write support for the Raspberry PI into the release. So I’m calling it ESXi On Pi. Sounds way cooler. I was hoping that I would be able to run this on my NVIDIA Jetson Nano but the Jetson doesn’t have a UEFIContinue reading “ESXi On Pi”

There is a part of the vSphere API called Guest Operations. Not many people use it but I’ve found it useful over the years. I first discovered it while building a self provisioning portal back in 2011. At the time I was using VMware Orchestrator for the workflow engine and web views for the webContinue reading “Guest Operations and File Permissions”