This rainy Halloween marks the end of October and the end of another year of Blogtober Tech Edition. This is the third year Matt Heldstab (@mattheldstab) has organized this effort within the tech community. Participants commit to the creation of five blog posts of original content in the month of October. As in past years … Continue reading Blogtober Complete
Current Work and Goals
December 2017 was the last time I updated my blog to specifically call out my goals moving forward. That post kicked off with some accomplishments including achieving VCIX recognition, starting this blog, and attending VMworld. Several of my current goals are continuations of things either celebrated in that post or listed as future work. I … Continue reading Current Work and Goals
Why Automated Image Building for VDI
After many years of maintaining a VMware Horizon environment of Windows 7 virtual desktop pools, migrating to Windows 10 presented an opportunity apply lessons learned and address observed pain points. One of my goals for this migration was the introduction of automation into the image creation and customization process. I also wanted a similar process … Continue reading Why Automated Image Building for VDI
Fun in the lab with VMware and a Raspberry Pi
Note: These instructions are only intended for use in a lab environment for non-production use. Do not use the steps described here to further contribute to the number of insecure IoT devices populating our world. Assume everything described is an unsupported configuration. Finally, be mindful of the Windows 10 IoT prototyping restrictions as well as … Continue reading Fun in the lab with VMware and a Raspberry Pi
DHCP Relay Options
In the process of setting up an automated deployment processes within my lab, I stumbled into the need to send DHCP requests to both my existing DHCP server as well as a Windows Deployment Services (WDS) server I was standing up. There are several widely discussed options for this: Place the DHCP client and both … Continue reading DHCP Relay Options
VMworld 2019 No Travel Edition
[Update 8/26/2019: No vBrownBag live stream this year, there is, however, a delayed stream going, so you can still catch content, just not in real time. See the vBrownBag YouTube page for the stream and individual recordings.] While the lead up to VMworld can be an exciting time as email boxes fill with activity invites … Continue reading VMworld 2019 No Travel Edition
vSphere Upgrade, 6.0 to 6.7
As I’m generally working with things sitting on top of the hypervisor and/or inside of VMs, I hadn’t made upgrading vSphere itself a huge priority in my lab environment. With the release of vSphere 6.7 Update 1 I decided to spend some time getting both vCenter and ESXi on the latest version. My lab environment … Continue reading vSphere Upgrade, 6.0 to 6.7
Missed Can’t Miss Sessions from VMworld 2018
A fairly common pre-VMworld blog post is a listing of sessions the post author has decided are “can’t miss.” This is not that post for a couple of reasons 1) it is written well after VMworld and 2) these are all sessions that for one reason or another, I missed. Some of these were never on … Continue reading Missed Can’t Miss Sessions from VMworld 2018
Highlights from VMworld 2018
Introduction VMworld 2018 was my second year of attendance, after attending for the first time last year. In building out my schedule this year I emphasized opportunities for interaction with other attendees and things that were not recorded. While I still tried to cover a range of topics, my upcoming and active project list is … Continue reading Highlights from VMworld 2018
Debian, Xfce themes, and GTK3
I recently found myself in need of wireshark while doing some experiments with a virtual machine . After starting and updating my existing Debian 9 VM with wireshark installed, I found I had a bit of a display issue. As you can see in the below screenshot, parts of wireshark's GTK interface were not rendering (in … Continue reading Debian, Xfce themes, and GTK3