Two Methods to Select a vRA Reservation Policy at Request Time with vRO
In the last 6 months, I've done quite a bit of vRA6, 7 and vRO. During this time, I've had to learn quite a bit about both products, and how they interact with each other and with other REST based...
View ArticleGetting my head around Containers: vSphere Integrated Containers, Docker &...
Container technology has been around for quite a while now. Most people would by now have heard about Docker, and a lot of people are using Docker. What about VMware Photon? What’s that? Well again,...
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VMware Cloud on AWS - What about the Processor Vendor / Arch? Answers on a...
So during the keynote at VMworld in Barcelona on Tuesday morning, 18 October 2016, VMware showed a demo of how a VMware Cloud infrastructure is stood up in AWS and following that, showed how a virtual...
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vSphere 6.5 - External PSC Upgrade Issue
So with vSphere 6.5 now GA, I decided to upgrade my lab to vSphere 6.5. In my environment, I use a vCenter with an external Platform Services Controller (PSC). So as part of the upgrade, I have to...
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vRetreat Day, Porsche Experience Centre, Silverstone, UK
I was honoured to have been invited to attend the inaugural vRetreat event in the UK. The event, arranged by Red-Track Ltd, took place at the Porsche Experience Centre at Silverstone on 27 January...
View ArticlevRetreat Day - Zerto!
Following on from my original vRetreat blog post, I thought it would make sense to report on some of the technical IT discussions that happened on the day, For this blog post, I am going to be focusing...
View ArticleWith No Apology - Stop with the BS!
This blog post has the potential to be a very controversial. I'm sure there will be many in the IT industry who will want to protest against a post like this, but there will also be others who would...
View ArticleCloud - Synonyms Define a Lack of Clarity?
Last night I was searching for a domain name for a new personal project that I would like to kick off. Personally, I don't find searching for a new domain name a fun thing to do. I wanted to see if I...
View ArticlevRO Plugin Development - Getting Maven to Work!
I have been dabbling in the world of vRO plugin development. Yes, I know, vRO is a product that doesn't get much love from the VMware community, and I do not think that is fair. People seem to have...
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Guide: From Start to Finish - Coding with the vRA Plugin in vRO Using Custom...
Custom properties in VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) provide us with the ability to set data on vRA objects and to change configurations that affect the behaviour of objects in vRA. For example, when...
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