My Monthly Roundup – February 2021

Second edition of my monthly roundup! Customer Engagements With my role changing recently, I am less involved directly with UK customers but I tend to work with any customers worldwide around discussions on automation or advanced networking and security. I also focus on being a bridge between our customers and our product teams, to ensure […]

Automated Consumption of the VMware Marketplace

Since I last blogged about the VMware Cloud Marketplace, a lot of has happened with this service: they’ve merged it with the VSX (VMware Solution Exchange) and renamed it to VMware Marketplace (see the announcement). I hadn’t had many reasons and opportunities to use it but I’ve been thinking about the whole VM provisioning recently […]

New Fling: SDDC Import/Export for VMware Cloud on AWS

Today (8th February 2021), I’m delighted to announce the release of our new Fling : SDDC Import/Export for VMware Cloud on AWS. A common request from VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS customers and partners is the ability to save the configuration of a VMC environment (a Software-Defined Data Center – SDDC) and restoring it to […]

My Monthly Roundup – January 2021

I’m starting something new this year – short blog posts where I recap stuff I have done in the past month. This helps me keeping track of the activities and hopefully, by the end of the year, it adds up to a solid list of achievements. It also keeps me accountable on some of the […]

PyVMC Update: Release 1.2

The Python Client for VMware Cloud on AWS has had a few minor upgrades over the past few months. It’s been great to hear that more and more customers that are using it for automation, operation and migrations. The code is also being used for side projects such VMware Hands on Labs or for other […]

Scale Testing with the Terraform count, for_each and dynamic arguments

I recently came across a requirement to make some scale tests on my VMware environment. I had to validate whether a limit was a hard limit (literally, the system prevents you from going above) or a soft limit (you can go above but it’s not recommended and you’re no longer supported). Given that the limit […]

NSX-T L2VPN with APIs and Python

I always like a coding challenge so when my colleague Itonaga-san asked on an internal Slack channel how to create a NSX L2VPN using the APIs, that gave me an opportunity to help a colleague and get coding! My first question though was – why? The response was that a customer in Japan was trying […]

Mini-post: vRealize Network Insight and HCX Integration Fling

This is a short follow-up to a previous post I wrote about the cool integrations between vRNI and VMC. Martijn recently put together a great little Fling that enables customers to synchronize their group of VMs created by vRNI with HCX mobility groups. Let’s have a look at it in more details: HCX is our […]

Running Python and Terraform against a simulated vCenter environment with vcsim

As if I needed more ideas for my blog, William Lam challenged me to test a nice little tool he had just blogged about. The blog was about leveraging a cool tool – vcsim – that records an existing vCenter inventory, restores a fake version of it and lets you interact with this simulated vCenter […]

Reflections on 2020 and goals for 2021

As 2020 was finishing, I looked back at my initial New Year resolutions: Obviously, my first two ‘eco-conscious’ resolutions became quickly irrelevant as COVID disrupted our lives, grounded flights and lockdowns prevented us to drive anywhere. Anyway, I did switch to an electric vehicle (I’d highly recommend it if you can handle the restrictions that […]