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 – …

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! …

You may be arriving here having expected some different content.  Perhaps you arrived expecting some content related to triathlon, only to be surprised by IT related content – sorry for that!  

For many years I have “maintained” three blogs, which means three instances of the blog software and content related to it.  I …

Last week I had an unfortunate experience; I ignored the expiration warning of a bunch of nested ESXi hosts and allowed the license to expire.

Rather then logging into a bunch of individual hosts to apply a key, I wrote a quick script that will connect to vCenter, ensure all the licenses are the correct one, and then …

Today we will be diving into each section of our packer json file and their purpose.

This is the third post of a planned four part series:

• Let’s Build an image pipeline! (part 1) – Setting up the Jenkins CICD pipeline
• Let’s Build an image pipeline! (part 1.5) – Jenkins needs some credentials!
• Let’s Build an image …

Note: I enjoy writing, but often find myself not doing so simply because it can take a lot of effort to write a “good” post.  In an effort to post more regularly, I’m planning to post more frequent short write-ups of things I am doing in my lab.

One of the most overlooked aspects of your management infrastructure is …

This week I was able to attend the Wisconsin VMUG UserCon.  In the past I was always hesitant to go to these as I assumed that I wouldn’t be able to learn anything new.  I always figured I know what I need to know technically, what am I possible going to encounter that will increase my technical knowledge.  In other …

It took me, not unsurprisingly, longer then expected to sit down and write this post. Primarily because I am a little in shock that I actually achieved this, but also because imposter syndrome kicked in a bit, and really I simply needed time to sort through all the emotions I experienced: euphoria, disbelief, let …