Recently, I decided I needed something other than a test vSAN node or locally attached drives as I’m spending a lot of time (way too much) developing the items I’m blogging about, not even accounting for the time I spend to… Continue Reading →
After a little hiatus from blogging, I am back at it and my first order of business was to create a few more items around Azure + vRA that were top of mind. After logging into the lab after a… Continue Reading →
Over the last couple of months, this blog has gone completely dark and that bums me out because all of the cool things with automation and “the cloud” definitely haven’t stopped – I have some catching up to do. Between my career which… Continue Reading →
The ability to shutdown workloads in the cloud based off of workload type, application, environment, etc which can be crazy powerful… and will save you and/or your company a few bucks. In this video, I will walk you through the… Continue Reading →
Looking back at my first vlog in this series, I showed you how to “enable” the ability to modify the OOTB vRealize Automation Azure XaaS blueprint and vRealize Orchestrator workflows to enable tasks like AD creation or change control creation for… Continue Reading →
The Azure portal has a really cool feature that allows its consumers to quickly change the instance type, which in essence is adding or removing CPU cores, Memory, possibly disks and disk types. In this vlog I will show you… Continue Reading →
The OOTB instance types VMware provided us are pretty old and need to be updated. Also, they frequently run “PROMO” instance types at steep discounts and lastly, maybe you don’t want your users spinning up G5 instance types which are nearly… Continue Reading →
Tagging is becoming an integral part of any cloud project as hostnames are becoming a thing of the past. Tagging is now used across enterprises for anything from workload placement, SLAs and OLAs, to backup schedules and showback. In this… Continue Reading →
A key piece of any Cloud Management Portal is to get the admins out of doing mundane and sometimes tedious operations and to just put those in the hands of the consumer. In this vlog, I will cover how to allow… Continue Reading →
The OOTB component view that VMware has provided for the Azure VMs in vRealize Automation (vRA) does provide some good info, but it also is missing some key information that vRA users have become accustomed to. In this vlog, I… Continue Reading →
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