One theme that I repeatedly drive home on the Datanauts Podcast is the need to collaborate across various silos to deliver a higher quality product and increase your own happiness. One method for doing this is ChatOps – the idea of performing operational tasks in a group setting in a chat environment such as Slack. […]

I work on a variety of different open source projects on GitHub. For many of them, I’m assigned to a pull request as either a task worker or peer reviewer. I’m a stickler for maintaining organized lists of prioritized tasks – I want to make sure that any assignments I hold in GitHub are reflected […]

Back in 2017, I was published in a tongue-in-cheek post & video that showcased Roxie, an intelligent personal assistant that harnessed AWS Lex, AWS Lambda, and Rubrik’s Cloud Data Management APIs. It was written by Manjunath Chinni – who is a super groovy engineer at Rubrik – as part of our 2017 annual internal company […]

VMworld 2017 did not disappoint! While spending an awesome week in Las Vegas I walked about 38 miles, attended a ton of great sessions, and did a lot of learning. I am glad to be back home and already looking forward to next year! Mandalay Bay Conference Center VMworld Announcements: There were some great VMware […]

In this blog post I will be upgrading (migrating) a Windows vCenter 5.5 deployment to a vCenter Server 6.5 Appliance. VMware vSphere 6.5 finally went general availability on November 15th 2016 (Read GA announcement here). There are many new features and changes in 6.5. The first noticeable change is the thick C# vSphere client is not available […]

I found myself wanting to enable the SSH service on my ESXi hosts. I could use Host Profiles to enable it but I decided to PowerShell script it! To enable SSH there are three parts to it: You will need to start the SSH service and set it to Start and Stop with Host: And you […]

There are quite a few clicks needed to add a host to vCenter. If you are deploying multiple hosts to your environment you have many clicks ahead. You should script it! This PowerShell script will make adding multiple hosts to vCenter easy! Let’s see it in action! ##################################################################### # Load VMware Plugins and connect to […]

On May 18th VMware announced the end of the road for the C# vSphere Thick Client. The next version of vSphere the thick client will not be available. VMware has been building up to this moment and previously announced they wanted to move to a web based client to have maximum compatibility and mobility. The current versions […]

In Part 8 of this Boring series I will be setting up an Instant Clone Desktop Pool. This is one of the coolest features announced of Horizon 7 in my opinion! You may have heard of Project Fargo (aka vmFork) announced during the keynote speech of VMworld 2014. This is the result of that project! Instant Clone […]

Part 7 of the series we will be creating a Automated Desktop Pool using Full Desktops. vBoring Blog Series: VMware Horizon View 7: Deployment and Installation VMware Horizon View 7: Apply SSL Certificates VMware Horizon View 7: Create Events Database VMware Horizon View 7: Add Microsoft RDS Farm VMware Horizon View 7: Setup Remote Access through Security […]