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There are scenarios in which I require access to a private repository that hosts a lot of work. In this case, these are files that scripts that call. For example – configurations for Docker, Squid, or other automation scripts for…
I have traversed a few apps over the years to seek my “Markdown” paradise. I’ve been hooked on using the Markdown writing language as it provides flexibility, portability, and it’s damned easy to write with. As such as I have…
Quick one here: The Humble Bundle for this months features a raft of O’Reilly books. O’Reilly are synonymous with solid technical books. They are easy to consume and easy to read. This bundle can be bought for 15$ or more.…
Happy little green certificates My good friend and colleague Grant Orchard always called me a heathen for not used trusted certificates in my lab and demos. He was right. I was espousing the principals of do as I say not…
Many devices, many settings, many plugins It is known that I have two computers. A nice shiny MacBook Pro for the road (and I am on it a lot) and an iMac when I am at home. I use VScode…
A few weeks back I was asked by Scott Lowe if I wanted to be interviewed. At first, I was puzzled. Why would someone want to interview me? Scott was looking for people to talk about their personal career journey.…
This is a guest post by Nick Bradford, author and founder of PowerNSX. This post originally appeared here I’m breaking a long standing tradition of not blogging, because for once I feel like I truly have something interesting to talk…
Clarity UI for all VMware did something pretty cool today. They released to GitHub the entire UI framework called Clarity. Clarity provides UX Guidelines, HTML/CSS and Angular2 resources for VMware’s styling going forward. This is pretty exciting. What is Clarity?…
vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 Fusion Install I previously wrote about how to install vCSA 6.0 to fusion here. You had to do things like append .ova to the vmware-vcsa file and the rest. Now in the 6.5 ISO there is…
A quick one today on PowerCLI. A colleague asked about how to retrieve a list of VTEPs assigned to a host. I was asked because they though PowerNSX may actually do this but low and behold, good old PowerCLI can…
VMware Fusion is the Workstation equivalent on OSX. It has come along way but there is not the same feature parity as there is in Windows. One handy feature is the ability to overcommit memory usage. This will swap memory…
Just a small note – another version for NSX for vSphere. Some good improvements. Check out some of the better ones below. The release notes have more. More to come in some following blogs. What’s new? Expanding physical connectivity options— by…
VMworld Public voting is on now. There is information about each session and public members are encouraged to vote for interesting sessions. Alas there is not author detail about who is presenting or additional information that was asked for when…
VMware NSX 6.2 for vSphere Essentials available for pre-order I noticed that our VMware NSX 6.2 for vSphere Essentials book is available for pre-order on the Amazon store. If you’re interesting in this book, want to learn more about NSX…
By now many in the network and security field will have heard about the announcement from Juniper. Juniper’s commentary about an internal code review identifying malicious code on their ScreenOS platform sparked a marked increase of hype on the Twittersphere.…
vForum 2015 : Network Virtualisation stream Implementing Network Virtualisation: Practical Microsegmentation If you have read anything lately the world is a foot with news of “Microsegmentation”. Every vendor sells a solution that achieves this outcome. It is very easy…
New NSX version dropped today. Here is the Release notes. I will follow up with some feature focused blogs soon! NSX vSphere 6.2 includes the following new and changed features: Cross vCenter Networking and Security NSX 6.2 with vSphere 6.0…
AppCatalyst AppCatalyst is a thin hypervisor based on VMware Fusion that is targeted at Developers. Developers who want to use container based deployments on Virtual Machines can user AppCatalyst to deploy their workloads. VMware Photon is a minimal Linux Container Host that…
For a long time we have built applications that were designed with a function. These are applications that have been bought off the shelf or built to deliver a business function. Legacy applications provide an interface tier for interaction by…
I had a customer reach out to me recently and ask why NSX Manager was not displaying inside the Network and Security inventory item. The screen looked something like this. When you integrate NSX manager into a vSphere environment via…
I was asked to present at the VMUG in Melbourne in late 2013. At the time I was working at ESTA. They provide 000 Call taking for Emergency Services (The same as 911 for the US!). I decided to talk…
Congratulations to SocketPlane. Lucky I am not a journalist because I am very slow to write about it! They were acquired by Docker last week. Brent Salisbury, friend and mentor, joined some very smart minds in Dave Tucker and…
This image came through my twitter feed recently. It resonated with me very deeply. People are becoming far more resourceful in the way that access information. There was a time (before I was in the field, I heard they connected…
Elastic Search is a powerful open source tool that combines RegEx to perform lookups across numerous data sources. Thanks to Ashley McNamara, she tweeted her impatience about downloading all her Gmail archive. By the way, this is quite easy. You…
Log ALL the things With the importance of logging on the increase you need to ensure you have a distributed log management system that can ingest thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of inputs per second. The Log Insight log…