So today I finally built out my lab with vSphere 7 Workload Management (vSphere 7 with Kubernetes). I though everything was going fine until I got an error: Failed to list all distributed switches in vCenter <GUID>Cluster domain-cxxxx is missing compatible NSX-T VDS Well this was a suprise to me. I had a NSX-T distributedContinue reading “vSphere Workload Management and NSX Errors”
Author Archives: Kenyon Hensler
vCNS, vCD, NSX, and IPSEC
One of my customers emailed me today with a question about their vCD environment. They are running vCD 8 and vCNS 5.5. Yes I know what year it is. No none of this is supported. But helping people is what I do and technical challenge are always fun. They have a plan to upgrade toContinue reading “vCNS, vCD, NSX, and IPSEC”
Yet Another Kubernetes Post
I know eveyone has done one of these but since I went through the process of writing the code and getting it open source approval at VMware I figured I should write about it. In 2019 I got tired of all of the “official/supported” way to deploy k8s with NSX integration. I found them cumbersomeContinue reading “Yet Another Kubernetes Post”
The Skee-Ball Machine: Part 7, 7 Segment Displays
After much googling for the right size seven segment displays I decided to build my own. By using the plastic pieces from the original I would keep the same look and feel. Instead of using the old incandescent lights that constantly burn out and are specialty lights I went with LEDs. By using addressable LEDsContinue reading “The Skee-Ball Machine: Part 7, 7 Segment Displays”
The Skee-Ball Machine: Part 6, Wiring It All Up
The custom PCBs for my sensor assembly arrived some time ago. Unfortunate I messed up and put the wrong foot print on the boards for my headers. After a long pause to figure out if redoing the board was best or just use what I already have I chose to use what I have. InsteadContinue reading “The Skee-Ball Machine: Part 6, Wiring It All Up”
Power Wheels and Toddlers
Years ago we got my daughter a bright pink RZR Per Perego. It seats two and she and her brother rode around for hours and hours. My daughter is a very good listener and a rule follower much like her father. She stopped at stop signs and curves in the road. She listened when youContinue reading “Power Wheels and Toddlers”
Jeep Locks
Another day another broken something. I got in the Jeep a couple of days ago and felt something hit my leg when I closed the door. I reached my hand down without looking thinking it was nothing and found the power lock buttons hanging out of the door. Ok. So now what? Looked at theContinue reading “Jeep Locks”
Sight Words
I hate sight words. Do you have young children? Have you been homeschooling during quarantine? Are you tired of flipping note cards and trying to keep track of what they know and don’t know? Well me too! So I wrote a python/JavaScript app to let me do sight words on my phone and keep trackContinue reading “Sight Words”
The Skee-Ball Machine: Part 5, Optical Switches
Analog vs Digital. Mechanical vs Optical. What’s better? Video game controllers went from digital to analog and back to digital that pretends to be analog. What does that mean? I don’t know. I do know that mechanical analog switches in Skee-Ball machines are not accurate. After de-bouncing the mechanical switches and still having double orContinue reading “The Skee-Ball Machine: Part 5, Optical Switches”
The Skee-Ball Machine: Part 4, The Ball Release
After about a week of working on the Skee-Ball Machine the scoring and ball counting parts of the machine are working. The code is stable and most balls count correctly. One of the major functional parts that is very important is the ball release. The balls are normally released by a solenoid underneath the ballContinue reading “The Skee-Ball Machine: Part 4, The Ball Release”
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