Have you been keeping up on the news today? If not, there were some big announcements across the technology space today, but I think VMware tops it all.
Cannot install the vCenter agent service. Cannot upload agent
During a recent change ticket in a non-production environment I was called into an All Paths Down (APD) situation on some ESXi hosts. For those…
UCS Blades Power Off Unexpectedly
I was called into an interesting issue over the past week. I was told that a chassis worth of UCS blades had powered off without…
PDL + New HA Settings in vSphere 5.0 U1
I was recently reading the VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster Case Study published May 2012 available here. One section that caught my attention stated (page…
VMworld Call for Papers – My Top 20
Phew…just want through the 1000+ sessions that made it into public voting for VMworld 2012 and casted my votes. Overall, there are a lot of…
VMworld Call for Papers – Public Voting!
I am happy to announce that the session I submitted to VMworld 2012 has made it past the first round! It is now in public…
VMworld Call for Papers – Submitted!
I am happy to announce that I have submitted my first session for VMworld: Scale-Out Cloud Infrastructure – A Look into the Cloud Foundry PaaS.…
Logrotate Limitations Revisited
The more I use logrotate the less I like it. If you recall from my previous post on logrotate, I choose to leverage the copytruncate…
Starting Vyatta router: configure failed!
Since I have experienced this issue several times before and I can never remember the commands needed to figure out what is wrong, I figured…
vCloud Director and Wildcard SSL Certificates
I was recently asked to assist in configuring a wildcard SSL certificate on a pair of vCloud Director (vCD) cells. While the certificate had been…