The last (half) day of VMworld 2017 US. As always, it’s bitter-sweet. There’s no coverage of the General Session this morning as I was touring the Switch data centre here in Las Vegas instead. Tour of the Switch Data Center, Las Vegas This...
VMworld “hump day” is in the bag. This is the day that’s sort of in the middle of VMworld and is distinguished by the lack of General Session in the morning and Customer Appreciation event in the evening. Let’s recap. vSphere 6.5 Host...
The second full day of VMworld was one of the fullest. Onward! General Session For general session commentary, check out the Live Blog. The super-condensed version: Pivotal and VMware announce Pivotal Container Service (PKS), a joint offering that was developed in partnership with Google...
VMworld’s first full day of sessions and such delivered. Here we go. General Session For general session commentary, check out the Live Blog. To sum it up quick: VMware Cloud on AWS was officially released, VMware’s betting big on NSX by pushing it beyond...
Welcome to the VMworld 2017 US Tuesday General Session live blog! Tuesday General Session Note: To view the live blog you need to read this post on https://teebeedee.org. If you read it some other way, for instance via email subscription or RSS feed,...
Welcome to the VMworld 2017 US Monday General Session live blog! Monday General Session Note: To view the live blog you need to read this post on https://teebeedee.org. If you read it some other way, for instance via email subscription or RSS feed,...
Sunday’s typically the day many attendees show up for VMworld. There are a few sessions, TAM stuff, partner stuff, but it’s fairly light over all. Registration went very smoothly this year, with the badge and materials pick-ups handled separately. It wasn’t without flaws,...
VMworld Day 0. A day of anticipation, travel, and preparation for the wonderfully exhausting week ahead (feet don’t fail me now!). While I’m here cranking out some drafts behind-the-scenes to capture the week’s news, discoveries and mild manias, let’s check out a few...
Eric Wright recently asked, “Is open source a true technical requirement?” A great question that Eric explores well, and after reading his article it felt like we could quest a little further. So please, go read Eric’s article if you haven’t already, then pop...
In the first post, we created an ISO image of VMware ESXi 6.5 to install on our Intel NUC. Now we turn that ISO into a bootable USB and do the install. Make Bootable USB We’re going to use an application called Rufus...
With VMware vSphere 6.5 released recently, I decided to rebuild my Intel NUC based homelab. My preferred method is to create a bootable USB drive with the ESXi install media on it. Then install from the ESXi USB to the dedicated NUC’s boot...
