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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”

My neighbor has been having some issues with their home internet. I’m pretty sure I’ve heard them complain about Comcast for the last year or two. This was kind of odd to me since I have Comcast and haven’t really had any issues (I know shocking…). A few days ago they asked me what kindContinue reading “Home Internet Monitoring”

Over the years people have said things to me that I’ve found interesting, silly, idiotic…. The same experience as everyone else. The things that have stuck with me that help me be a better person are the things that are the most interesting. I was recently speaking with a good friend Marcos Hernandez and heContinue reading “Bits Of Wisdom”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

So this was supposed to be about technology and other projects I’m working on but life doesn’t always work the way you planned. I got a surprise project last night as we were about to go on a walk around the neighborhood. I was in the basement working on my Skee Ball machines (what thisContinue reading “Toddlers and Garage Doors”