Perception is everything
Wow, it really has been a while ago since I wrote my last blog. A lot has happened. The COVID-19 pandemic really kicked-in globally, social distancing, working from home since March 2020, Zoom and Teams are my best two friends now, homeschooling two teenage sons,…
Cybersecurity Trends & Predictions for 2021
Being able to retain customer trust has never been more important – or more difficult – following the events of 2020. With so much disarray and widespread changes to working patterns, such as the mass migration to remote working, the job of keeping businesses secure…
Get Insight in an Advanced Ransomware Threat
Cyberthreats, including devious attacks such as ransomware, spyware and malware, are among the most common IT challenges. What would you do in case your data is attacked and held ransom? Attacks have increased in numbers and complexity and spread to organisations of any size and…
Today’s the day! Register for the vMA & vNS TechCon 2020!
Yes! Today’s the day that you can register for our annual vCommunity event the vMA & vNS TechCon 2020 – one event with two tracks focussing on: Management & Automation (vMA) and Networking & Security (vNS). October 29th is the date for our 3rd edition…
Gain insight in Kubernetes
In my previous post I showed how easy it is to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters and namespaces using VMware vRealize Automation. In my case, Kubernetes is automatically installed on Virtual Machines running on a VMware vSphere infrastructure. These Virtual Machines run pods, containers, storage-…
VMGuru TV Episode 2: What if you need support?
I hope you had as much fun watching our first episode as we did making it. And like the saying goes: One is none, we decided that we would make another episode. And this time we’re talking about getting support. In this episode Alex and…
Kubernetes as a Service
In 2017 I wrote a blog on Containers as a Service. In that time Docker containers were the next new big thing and VMware created a tightly integrated solution for vSphere, named vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) to run containers on vSphere like a VM and…
We finally did it: VMGuru TV Episode 1 – working / learning from home
A couple of weeks ago Alex and I were talking about what we can do for VMGuru to keep giving you relevant information. Blogging is an interesting format, but it takes a lot of time: research, writing, rewriting because it was not easy to read, getting…
Create Custom Names with vRealize Automation 8
In the latest version of vRealize Automation (vRA), version 8, when you create a new blueprint for deploying a Virtual Machine, you probably noticed once you deploy the Virtual Machine it gets a standard machine name something like Cloud_Machine_1-mcmxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx. But most customers use their own…
vRealize Operations 6.x certificate expires soon
Normally I don’t replicate VMware KB articles or bug reports with clear instructions on how to fix your problems. But in this case I want to warn vRealize Operations users and prevent that they run into an issue soon. Why? The vRealize Operations 6.x certificate expires…
Opensource Configuration Management tools integration with vRealize Automation Cloud – Part 2
This is part 2 of opensource Configuration Management tools integration with vRealize Automation Cloud. In part 1 I wrote about using Puppet Bolt together with VMware Cloud Automation Services for installing and configuring software on a deployed VM. A lot has changed since, Cloud Automation…
Surviving VMworld Europe 2019
Going to VMworld in Barcelona this year? Here are some tips and tricks that will benefit you and help you survive the awsome experiance that is VMworld. Some tips I wrote down in 2015 are still valid and I will repeat a couple of them…
My First VMworld
VMworld US is already in the past but for us, European people, VMworld EU is closing fast. Just another 7 weeks before the most important show of the season kicks off. Okay, I might be slightly biased For many people, VMworld is part of their…
Frequently asked questions for the vSphere Client (HTML5)
As you all may know, the vSphere Client (HTML5) is the preferred client these days for managing your vSphere environment. With the deprecation of the vSphere Client for Windows (aka the C# client) and the vSphere Web Client (aka the Flash client) there is really…
Opensource Configuration Management tools integration with Cloud Automation Services – Part 1
In some earlier posts I wrote about the advantages of Configuration Management tools as Puppet Enterprise for installing software and desired state configuration and how easy it is to integrate it with automation solutions as VMware vRealize Automation and Cloud Automation Services. But what if…