My 1000 mile, 2 day RoadTrippin’ Telsa Model S test Drive experience via Turo!
Last week I headed out to Atlanta Georgia to go to a partner only event from VMware called VMware EMPower. This is a technical event similar to a…
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A Decade’s worth of posts!
It’s hard to believe but I just noticed that I have been blogging here for 10 years now! A full decade worth of postings, ramblings and tech notes. …
What you need to know so you Don’t Meltdown from Spectre! How to patch your computers.
So the world is ablaze again from the latest computer vulnerability. Make that 2 of them. And they affect pretty much every computer made in the last…
Collecting data from Customer Sites
As a virtualization consultant for the past few decades, I’ve been collecting data from client environments for as long as I can remember. Whether it’s a new client…
Inventory your vSphere environment with RVTools
If you haven’t heard of Robware’s RVTools, you are missing out. This handy little utility gives you a nice clutter free way to view basic information about your…
PSA: vSphere Patch can break working NVIDIA GRiD set ups. (And don’t look directly at the sun #SolarEclipse2017)
I was working with a client today and going nuts trying to figure out why the NVIDIA VIB was not loading correctly in the vSphere 6.0 environment. We…
VCSA 6.5 Fails to start. File System and then Network Service errors.
This is basically a repost of Paolo Valsecchi’s excellent blog post (https://nolabnoparty.com/en/vcsa-6-5-fails-to-start-file-system-check-and-network-service-errors/). I ran into this issue today with a client and then commands are so obscure (to…
Those are some BIG log files you have there buddy!
Sometimes a well run, stable production environment that runs and runs and runs is hiding some hidden dangers from you. My client was recently doing some housekeeping on…
Cleaning up Horizon Database Errors
vSphere vCenter is great. Horizon is great. Composer is great. Sometimes though, they go off script and start getting out of sync. I’m sure everyone who has run…