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Dear (Hack) Tech Pundits: Please Stop Saying “Containerizing Workloads is a VMware Replacement”

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on March 28, 2024June 13, 2024

Miss me? I’m mainlining bourbon for this one, which means that by the time I…

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Securing Your vSphere Environment from Ransomware Part 3 of 3: Rubber Meets Road

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on March 26, 2022

I am hoping that you have recovered from the scare I gave you in Part…

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  • Bryan's Take

vSphere Cluster Service: My Crisis of Confidence

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on February 17, 2022February 17, 2022

When I was a wee VMware Engineer (let’s say it was the year . .…

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  • Ansible

Securing Your vSphere Environment from Ransomware Part 2: Rubber Meets Road

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on January 31, 2022

In Part 1, I may have scared the crap out of you introduced protecting your…

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Securing Your vSphere Environment from Ransomware Part 1: It’s Worse Than You Think

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on January 6, 2022

TL;DR – Jump down to the Action Items: Where to Start section. I am averse…

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Why VMware Engineers Tell You to Right-size Your VMs: Becau$e Co-$top Will Co$t You Money

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on October 6, 2021October 7, 2021

A Scenario: Ever wonder why we VMware Engineers always try to explain to you why,…

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  • Bryan's Take

A Plethora of Questions: The Value of Reverse Engineering (and a Primer)

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on September 7, 2021September 5, 2021

This post has everything: Borg Assimilation Cubes, no less than 2 Alec Baldwin movie references,…

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VMWorld 2020 – Now Live!

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on September 29, 2020

For those of you here to checkout the resources discussed in my session, here’s everything…

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  • Bryan's Take

What I am Working On: Zero Touch Firmware Updates with HPE sutesxi on HPE Gen 9 Hardware – Part 1 . . . Probably

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on July 11, 2020July 11, 2020

Showing the Process: A Different Tack First, my disclaimer is that there is some assumed…

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  • Ansible

A Method for Auto-Generating Ansible Inventory Files for ESXi Hosts with PowerCLI

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on June 29, 2020

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…

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  • Every Foundation Needs a Home: My VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0.1 Home Lab Build

    November 10, 2025
  • Dear (Hack) Tech Pundits: Please Stop Saying “Containerizing Workloads is a VMware Replacement”

    March 28, 2024
  • See You at VMware Explore 2023

    August 14, 2023
  • A Treatise on Resolving Complex Outages: Engineer for the Unknown Unknowns

    July 11, 2023
  • One Year Later: How Sales Engineering Started vs. How It’s Going

    June 28, 2023

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