Terraform for vSphere – OVA/OVF support

As I am gearing up for a VMworld session with Gilles Chekroun on Terraform and an upcoming webinar with HashiCorp’s Grant Orchard, I thought I’d publish a series of short posts on Terraform around some of the features and gotchas I have myself discovered over the past few months. First one: remote OVA/OVF support with […]

Automation with VMware Cloud on AWS and vRealize Automation ABX

Updated (14th August 2020): for more information on this project, read Vincent’s blog post here One of the most fascinating aspects of working for a company like VMware is the opportunity to work directly with the product teams who design and build the solutions I get to play with. But at the rate the company […]

Deep Dive on PowerCLI, NSX-T, Pester and VMware Cloud on AWS

This blog post will walk through how to use PowerCLI, Pester for VMware Cloud on AWS, NSX-T and vCenter. No prior knowledge of PowerCLI or PowerShell is required to read this blog. In recent weeks, I have had the opportunity to participate in the construction of the VMware Hands-On Labs as a Lab Captain. I […]

Fling Update: PyVMC 1.1 release (and a walkthrough through some Python code)

Since I released PyVMC (a Python-based client to manage VMware Cloud on AWS co-created with Matt Dreyer) on my blog and as a VMware Fling, I’ve seen a fair bit of interest from engineers that need to automate the configuration of their VMC SDDC or that need to configure a large amount of security rules. […]

Bursting to the Cloud with VMware Event Broker Appliance, AWS Lambda and VMware Cloud on AWS

I was doing some research on who came up with the term “Cloud Bursting” – essentially the ability to leverage resources in the Cloud when demand for an on-prem application exceeds current capacity – and unsurprisingly, I came across Jeff Barr’s blog post from 2008 (Jeff is the Chief Evangelist for AWS). The way Jeff […]

Data Analytics with VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront

About 3 years ago, VMware acquired a cloud-hosted monitoring and analytics platform named Wavefront. With Wavefront, you could send time-series data from anywhere – applications, containers, serverless platforms, etc… – and render charts and get some analytics and insights. Naturally, I got my hands on it as soon as I could and started playing with […]

Life as a Technology Services Manager with Sam Akroyd

If you’ve ever wonder what a “Technology Services Manager” actually does, then read on! After Sam interrogated me on his blog, I thought I would return the favour and ask him almost the same questions in return. We covered a variety of topics, such as career changes, moving into a management role, delivering IT in […]

Using vRealize Network Insight with VMware Cloud on AWS

Last updated on 7th January 2021 with vRNI-HCX Fling link This post will walk through how to use vRealize Network Insight with VMware Cloud on AWS. Recap on vRealize Network Insight I’ve been a fan of vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) ever since the days it was still called Arkin Net. When I first started using […]

Folding at Home and how to make a (tiny) contribution to coronavirus therapeutics research

If you want to help fight against coronavirus but don’t know how to contribute…well, read on. It turns out we all can do something (beyond staying at home and washing our hands!): we can give away our computer processing power to research to understand coronavirus better and design therapeutics to address it. Now, I’m not […]

First look into…VMware Tanzu Mission Control

This is my first of (I suspect) many blog posts related to cloud-native workloads and Kubernetes. I’m bound to make mistakes or describe things incorrectly – please Tweet at me or put up a comment below if you spot inaccuracies or mistakes – but I’ve found that the best way for me to learn is […]