How I Finally Knocked Out a 9-Year-Old Home Assistant Wake on LAN Todo
I finally closed a nine-year-old Home Assistant todo by wiring SleepIQ bed presence, HASS.Agent, and Wake on LAN together so my work PC can be ready before I…
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Upgrade EMC/Dell VxRail Best Practices (4.7.100 to 4.7.301)
Time for another VXRail upgrade post! This time we are upgrading from VxRail 4.7.100-11859441 to 4.7.301-26249014. This will bring the underlying vSphere environment up to version 6.7 Update…
Maximize your productivity with this 4-monitor Dell P2719H Setup
As some of you might know, I am a full time Remote Worker . I started making the transition to remote work around 2012 and then in 2014,…
Upgrading VxRail from 4.5.227 to 4.7.100–One Click operations by EMC/DELL
Today I upgraded my VxRail from 4.5.227-106353364 to 4.7.100-11859441. Here is a breakdown of the process so you can see what to expect with this upgrade. Even though…
Simple steps to Stay up-to-date with Dell server firmware updates
This article feels like a ThrowBack Thursday post since this topic shouldn’t even really need to be discussed in 2018 but I’m writing it for my own knowledge…
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…
vSphere Installation Media : OEM or VMware?
Here is a topic that has recently come up for me at a few clients so I figured I would just jot some notes down on the subject. …
Fake News of the day.
Citrix and VMware institute tweet only support: In similar cost cutting moves, both Citrix and VMware customers running free hypervisors (XenServer or ESXi) will be forced to use…
ESX Hardware Boot options (via vCenter GUI)
Not sure if this one is new or not but I’ve NEVER seen the Boot Options before in vCenter for a host. I think it’s pretty cool! You…