What’s new on Dragon Drop this week? Let’s find out. The Goods My thought on 800 page VCDX designs by Frank Denneman Frank makes a reasoned argument for sticking with what you know. In design, that is. An architectural design submitted for a...
Today VMware announced the release of vSphere 6.5. Most of the core bits are available to download and take for a spin in your test environment. But wait, you say, isn’t this just a point release? It’s not like it’s vSphere 7 or...
Our next installment of Dragon Drop. Let’s dive right in. The Goods Buggy Software Foils Dreams of Infrastructure-as-Code from The New Stack Really interesting take on the complexity around infrastructure-as-code. This, to me, speaks of growing pains and the inevitable improvements that today’s...
In our pursuit to boost the performance of our nested home lab, first we were introduced to AlacrityPC, then we figured out which services we need to tame. Now it’s time to configure Alacrity and take to the skies! Prepare for Takeoff Now,...
In the first post, we looked at AlacrityPC, a program that will help us boost the performance of our VMware Workstation-based nested home lab. In this second part of the series, we’ll figure out what to do with Windows services. Systems Check So...
Many people run a nested vSphere home lab using VMware Workstation. Workstation is typically running on a Windows-based desktop or laptop with 8GB of RAM or more. For those of you who have worked with a nested environment like this, you’ll have found...
I was recently reminded of a technique I developed and used a decade ago to automatically rename virtual machines when they booted for the first time. The requirement was to make the deployment of identical VMs to multiple classroom computers as efficient as...
You know what they say, better late than never! At the end of my VMworld 2016 US posts, I pledged to catch up on some earlier VMworld posts that I missed. Towards the end of VMworld lies the inevitable fatigue and bone weariness that...
When I first heard about the VMware{code} Hackathon at VMworld 2016 US, I was excited, but also felt a bit trepidatious. I was keenly interested in attending, but wasn’t a “developer”. How much of a contribution could I make? As many wise folks...
Welcome to the inaugural Dragon Drop post. I’ll be recapping some of the items I’ve shared on social media during the week. I’ll be testing the waters with this kind of post this month, during #vDM30in30. If all goes well, it may become...
