My latest vSphere Upgrade Saga is about upgrading server hardware. I don’t mean simply replacing components or adding more memory—I mean full server replacements. This was not my first full server replacement, but it was by far the easiest. Perhaps it is now more a science than an experiment.
Edward L. Haletky, aka Texiwill, is an author, analyst, developer, technologist, and business owner. Edward owns AstroArch Consulting, Inc., providing virtualization, security, network consulting and development and TVP Strategy where he is also an Analyst. Edward is the Moderator and Host of the Virtualization Security Podcast as well as a guru and moderator for the VMware Communities Forums, providing answers to security and configuration questions. Edward is working on new books on Virtualization.
Work-from-Home Tips v1
Updated: 03/26/20 As more and more people start to work from home due to COVID-19, a set of work-from-home best practices and tips is in order. I have been working from home for over a quarter century now. There are things I do to ensure the experience is beneficial for me and my colleagues. It …
Linux Notes: Fixing the Dropbox Container
In my article Containers with SELinux: Dropbox on CentOS 7, I went through the process for using the headless Dropbox client on CentOS 7. This worked wonderfully until the latest releases of Dropbox and CentOS 7. I upgraded CentOS 7, which restarted the container. That, in turn, upgraded Dropbox. This caused the Dropbox container to …
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vExpert and Community
vExpert has always been about community. About helping people learn about virtualization. Currently, we learn about networking, automation, containers, security, and cloud. It is a group of folks who never stop learning, and some have progressed into other areas. Learning and sharing—that is this community.
vSphere Upgrade Saga: vRealize Suite, et al.
VMware vRealize Suite products have been upgraded to version 8.0. These major updates forced an update of my entire management portfolio for vSphere. I ended up upgrading not just vRealize Suite, but also NSX-V, vCenter, Horizon View, and my Unified Access Gateways (UAGs). This vSphere Upgrade Saga was a comprehensive update of all subsystems.
Everyone Has a Mr. Holland
If you have watched the movie Mr. Holland’s Opus, you will have realized that everyone has had a Mr. Holland: A teacher who was inspirational. A teacher who not only taught but went the extra mile. A teacher who was…more than an educator. I happen to have had several of them, but one stands out: …