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  • How to find properties in the Code Stream output schema

    calendar Apr 9, 2021 · 1 min read · codestream  ·
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    I've been doing a bit of work in Code Stream lately, and was running into some issues with a pipeline I built a while ago, but had updated the Cloud Template it was interacting with, as a result of these changes in the template I was now getting the error message Unable to resolve task input property : …
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  • Auto scaling your application with the vRealize Suite

    calendar Jan 13, 2021 · 5 min read · vra vro vrops  ·
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    When I was advocating for vRealize Automation while in my previous role, a frequent question I was asked by application owners was: "Can I auto scale my application, like <insert cloud provider here> allows me to?" This question often lead to defensive responses on my part.
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  • Decommission an offline VCSA

    calendar Jan 3, 2021 · 2 min read  ·
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    Not long ago I decided to retire a vCenter from my lab - but I didn't retire the VCSA properly, leaving its linked mode partners with an error.
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  • Day Two Automation Self Service Framework – Part 3

    calendar Dec 27, 2020 · 4 min read · vra vro vrops  ·
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    Today we will be reviewing the workflow package used to handle all of the aspects of this automated process. We will be leveraging several built workflows and actions, a set of community sourced workflows, and a simple workflow that stitches them together.

    The other posts in this series can be found below:

    • Day Two …

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  • Migrating to Hugo

    calendar Dec 24, 2020 · 1 min read · misc  ·
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    I am migrating my blog to hugo. I did a fair amount of debugging on my local system, but with the age of some of the early posts, and this now being the second major migration: home grown blog software -> Wordpress -> Hugo, I fully expect some amount of stuff to be weird. Im going to simply take the approach of …
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  • Day Two Automation Self Service Framework – Part 2

    calendar Nov 21, 2020 · 3 min read · vra vro vrops  ·
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    Last time we laid out the general approach of our automation framework. Today we will be completing some of the per-requisite technical tasks to enable vROPS to apply a layer of governance and detection to our framework.

    The other posts in this series can be found below:

    • Day Two Automation Self Service Framework – …

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  • Day Two Automation Self Service Framework – Part 1

    calendar Aug 26, 2020 · 3 min read · vro vra vrops  ·
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    In my years on the administration and engineering side of the VMware world a task I was frequently responsible for was creating policies around the standards of my environment and then defining a process to ensure those policies were adhered to.  Some examples of the policies I authored was things around snapshot …
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  • vROPS Optimization without shared storage

    calendar Mar 25, 2020 · 2 min read · automation twil vrops  ·
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    Over the last month or so I have had two customers inquire about vROPS’s ability to perform cross-cluster storage vmotions in order to enforce business intent or multi-cluster workload optimization.

    Being the eager wet-behind the ear SE that I am, I set it up in my lab with some vSAN datastores and it worked! Success! …


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  • Triathlon and me

    calendar Apr 29, 2018 · 3 min read  ·
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    The chief cause of  failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now.

    I will leave out my thoughts on Ironman Texas 2018, the race, both the positive and negative.  Instead I want to talk about my relationship with triathlon over the last couple years.   Aside from my relationship with my …


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  • Accountability

    calendar Nov 5, 2016 · 3 min read  ·
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    An important aspect about the SAFe framework, which I talked about a little last time, is accountability.  Namely, holding yourself accountable for accomplishing the things you have committed to.  This is done by defining clear acceptance criteria around that commitment.  The acceptance criteria describes why you are …
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