The global pandemic taught us (some of us already knew) that we could work collaboratively without being in the same room. Normally this is a decision taken through choice be it for logistics, timezone convenience, or doing our bit to save the planet but the pandemic effectively made it impossible to be in the same […]
One day an update will just work…
A quick post to acknowledge how annoying it is when the ‘pre check’ ahead of a simple upgrade passes – yet the upgrade itself fails and leaves the SDDC Manager broken and lonely. Todays issue was caused by the expiry of the root password on the management workload domain vCenter (PSC). You’d have thought a […]
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.2 to 4.4 upgrade/relaunch (Part 1)
One of my favourite customers are in Sweden and we were introduced to them around 5 years ago by a hardware vendor to help them with day 2+ services around developing their Horizon VDI environment that was deployed during the VCF bring up (VCF 2!). In those 5 years we’ve worked together we’ve completely rebuilt […]
Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) 2022
Disclaimer: I have always been a staunch supporter of technology, sometimes the underdog (looking at you Sun Microsystems with Sun Ray, & SGD) and sometimes the champion (VMware, Nutanix) but always for the right reasons – the best tool for the job, and the customer. This has often left me (and my wider team) in […]
Finally… a blog
For what feels like years of saying ‘I really should write a blog’ and ‘I don’t have time to curate material that would be interesting for others’, I have realised that at least once a week I search my mailbox, or previous support tickets to find something I have done in the past and need […]