For Whom The Post Tolls, The Post Tolls for Thee1 In Part 1, I made…
TL;DR Work smarter not harder by calculating opportunity costs. Yeah I know. Another opinion post.…
Forgive me for the not-so-creative title on this one, but the good people over at…
I am not sure I have ever gone into detail about my career history so…
A Very Brief Aside About Current Events It has been difficult for me to focus,…
Happy New Year! In Part 1, I detailed my take on Kubernetes. Here in Part…
The Usual Disclaimers We’re coming up on a new year and I am meeting my…
We’ve reached the end of 2020 and here’s to hoping for a fun and safe…
I am not sure other bloggers are going to make an entire post to wish…
In Part 1 of this book review, I recommended this book for the first seven…
I know, I know. It has been a while. I have no excuses: I just…
Happy Halloween! In this post we are talking about breaking through silos; a topic that…
I just finished Chapter 7 of O’Reilly’s Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems.…
Looking at the VMworld 2020 site for Level 200-300 Breakout Sessions, there are 393 available…
TL;DR – If you aren’t one for unpopular opinions and just want the advice part,…
TL;DR – DevOps people should at least read the disclaimer section (YADS: “Yet Another Disclaimer…
There is no TL;DR this week because I get to the code pretty quickly. The…
For those of you here to checkout the resources discussed in my session, here’s everything…
Well, 70 Followers of my blog (at what number does that self-deprecating joke not work…
So here we are. Morpheus. Part 3 of 3. In Part 1, I waxed philosophical…
Be on the lookout for Part 3 of my Morpheus series. It’s in the works!…
In Part 1, I got dark and existential about VM Self Service, and we talked…
While working on Part 2 of my Morpheus saga (Part 2 is at 40% complete!)…
I now have . . . squints eyes at the thinkingoutcloud site dashboard . .…
Here in Part 1, I hope to answer the question, “why Morpheus?” with some dark…
This is not my first blogging rodeo, and the first advice I ever got years…
If you already know exactly what PowerShell’s Compare-Object does, then whoop-de-freaking doo! I guess you…
Showing the Process: A Different Tack First, my disclaimer is that there is some assumed…
TL;DR: https://github.com/bryansullins/myvmwarekit/blob/master/MY.VMWAREKIT/StandaloneScripts/HostInventoryFiles.ps1 First, a Rant Did I ever tell you how often I run into…
I applied to do my current talk on Single-Touch ESXi Provisioning with Ansible and it…
My apologies for the late post this week. I have been pre-occupied with Desperados III,…
TL;DR – Skip down to the ESXi Slipstreaming: How It’s Done section if you like,…
There are quite a few rules to blogging: “Stay in your lane” . . .…
The topic for this week’s post: proving your value.
I (virtually) presented at the Virtual Seattle VMUG UserCon a few weeks back. It was…
I have read both The Phoenix Project and just finished The Unicorn Project. If you…
A disclaimer: There are probably other ways to solve what follows here, but this is…
In Part 1, I disclosed the trials and tribulations of putting together this lab. Here, I will give you the lab itself in all its glory, and some tips and tricks.
A Kubernetes Lab Story: The Vagranting Movie Trailer Voice: In a world flooded with Vagrant…
I can’t decide on the main title for my upcoming Vagrant Kubernetes Lab post, so I am leaving it to my Readers. Vote by number . . .
There is no TL;DR this week because this is a short one and we dive…
I know what you’re thinking: “Bryan’s running out of ideas, so he’s making one of…
Professional Chefs have knives that are tuned and weighted to their personal preferences and “chopping style”. Professional cyclists have their bikes tuned and sized for them and their body types. Why should we IaC warriors be any different? This is your ergonomic health we’re talking about. And Uncle Bryan has you covered.
I feel compelled to post . . . something . . . about the vSphere 7 release. I will concede that it is a big deal and, despite my ever-present wanderings away from all things VMware, I am still a vSphere Admin by trade.
I will give you a short take and you can take it for what it’s worth.
What? You thought all I could do was Ansible? I have all kinds of ideas . . . .
Like, my pontifications about the geolinguistic and historical origins of the present progressive tense . . . or to what extent Tolstoy’s anarcho-pacifism was an influence on post-modern thought . . . or is there such a thing as, “Douchedar“? . . . The answer to that last question, by the way, is yes.
But this is a tech blog, so we can talk about those topics later.
Instead, I want to share what I have done with VMware PowerCLI and how to collaborate with it effectively using git. I call it the VMWARE POWERCLI TOOLKIT. Not sure why I do that in all caps, but that’s what I call it.
In this post, I am going shamelessly vendor-specific with the use of a suite of tools from HPE’s Composable Infrastructure. It includes HPE Synergy Frames and Blades, the HPE Oneview Appliance, the HPE Image Streamer Appliance, and use of the Oneview Server Profiles therein.
