November 27, 2019
Gathering Event Data from vCloud Director 10
Service Providers have long used the vCloud Director notification system to receive events from the system. These can be used to perform actions or to build an integration with a back-office billing system. The events are published on a RabbitMQ instance and can be consumed in any language that can bind with the message bus. One of the main issues with using this method for integration with the billing system is how to recover from missed notifications.
February 11, 2016
What’s new for Virtual SAN 6.2?
What’s new for Virtual SAN 6.2?
What’s new for Virtual SAN 6.2? Yes, finally… the Virtual SAN 6.2 release has just been announced. Needless to say, but I am very excited about this release. This is the release that I have personally been waiting for. Why? Well I think the list of new functionality will make that obvious. There are a couple of clear themes in this […] ” What’s new for Virtual SAN 6.
February 3, 2016
VMware NSX: 3 different use cases – via…
VMware NSX: 3 different use cases – via TechRepublic
VMware NSX: 3 different use cases – via… VMware’s NSX is one of the most-popular options for network virtualization. Here’s how three companies are using it to power their businesses.
VMware Advocacy
January 16, 2016
Photon Platform Devbox: give it a try!
Photon Platform Devbox: give it a try! (via VMware’s @mreferre)
Photon Platform Devbox: give it a try! Since VMworld, we’ve been talking at length about Photon Platform . But before, we go any further, let me explain the two building blocks that make up the Photon Platform, which are Photon Machine and Photon Controller .
VMware Advocacy
January 13, 2016
VMware’s Casado warns Congress of…
VMware’s Casado warns Congress of “insufficient” national cyber defenses (@NetworkWorld)
VMware’s Casado warns Congress of… VMware’s networking and security chief Martin Casado – a forefather of the software defined networking movement – testified before Congress last week that the country’s cyber security defenses are “insufficient.”
VMware Advocacy
April 30, 2015
Nested ESXi in vCloud Air-Routed Edition
Over the past 3 years I have spent a lot of time building and refining nested ESXi as part of my day job. I worked for a large service provider at the time, and we developed our own portal on top of both the vSphere API as well as the vCloud Director API. Nesting VMware products to enable multiple developers to build against the different API’s was a perfect use case for nested virtualization.
August 1, 2014
More Minimal VM options
Here are a few more great options for small test VMs:
https://coreos.com/ (http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2014/07/how-to-quickly-deploy-coreos-on-esxi.html) http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os https://launchpad.net/cirros
July 25, 2013
Minimal Ubuntu VM
A great article on how to build a minimal Ubuntu VM: https://coderwall.com/p/a56j3w
June 25, 2013
A moment of reflection
I was passed this article yesterday and it really it home, so I thought I would share.
http://www.daedtech.com/how-to-keep-your-best-programmers
This video is linked within, and it is really worth a watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
March 20, 2013
vCenter Server Appliance(vCSA) as TFTP Server
One way to minimize the configuration of servers needed for the Auto Deploy infrastructure is to use the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) as the TFTP server. Since Auto Deploy is built into the vCSA it has all the building blocks you need.
Deploy your new vCSA
Login and make sure all services are stopped (https://x.x.x.x:5480):
SSH into the vCSA: ssh root@x.x.x.x Start the TFTP service: service atftp start Set chkconfig: chkconfig atftpd on Verify Changes: chkconfig –list atftpd Your TFTP directory is located at /tftpboot/