10 Effective Leadership Traits for IT Professionals
This is an article intended to outline 10 leadership habits I have formed over my IT career while in leadership roles.
vSphere
Practical VMware vSphere guides for ESXi, vCenter, PowerCLI, networking, storage, lifecycle management, automation, and production troubleshooting.
7 Career Development Principles to Advance Your IT Career
This article is intended for anyone looking to grow or make a change in their IT career. These 7 habits have helped me go from entry level to enterprise architect in 7 years.
Leveraging STEM & Coding to Develop the Next Generation of Engineers – The Story of My Daughter’s Start into Programming
Let’s first start out with a definition of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) – The goal of STEM is to integrate the four topics into a real world applied approach with instead of teaching them as individual disciplines. Why STEM MattersWhen you look at how many Compute/IT/Tech exist today it would be fair to … Explore: Leveraging STEM & Coding to Develop the Next…
Why Go Live Together Matters in these COVID-19 Times
https://www.golivetogether.com/ Their Mission:Go LIVE Together has assembled leaders from across the diverse and vibrant live events ecosystem to drive local, state, and federal legislative actions that will not only be critical to our ability to put millions of people back to work, but also for our country’s economic recovery. Every events industry recovery dollar will … Explore: Why Go Live Together Matters in these COVID-19…
Generate VxRail 4.7 log bundle in vCenter 6.7
Have you ever been working with DellEMC VxRail support and they ask you to generate a VxRail log bundle or you get that generic reply from creating an R that requests logs? I thought I would take a quick moment and show everyone the quick and painless way to generate a quick log bundle in … Explore: Generate VxRail 4.7 log bundle in vCenter 6.7
Generate Log Bundle for VMWare vCenter 6.7 and ESXI 6.7
I was recently asked by someone new to VMWare what is the quickest way to generate a log bundle that VMWare is asking for. I thought I would take the amount of time to generate a log bundle to write this article. Navigate to the top bar in vCenter and right click on your vCenter … Explore: Generate Log Bundle for VMWare vCenter 6.7 and…
Top 10 Habits for Working from Home from an Information Technology Architect / Engineer During COVID-19
I’ve been getting requests from co-workers and peers in information technology to share my personal work from home habits. I thought I would put together a quick list of my top ten habits for working from home during COVID-19. Pick a Space for WorkThis one sounds simple but it can be complex. I find a … Explore: Top 10 Habits for Working from Home from…
VMWare Virtual Machine can’t migrate / vMotion because the VM is installing VMware Tools and cannot initiate a migration operation quick CLI fix
Have you ever been trying to vMotion a VMWare virtual machine but get an error that prevents you because the VM is attempting to install VMWare Tools? Has this ever occurred when trying to put a host into Maintenance Mode? Are you looking for a quick way to vMotion the VM? Below I have the … Explore: VMWare Virtual Machine can’t migrate / vMotion because…
VMWare’s VMWorld will be week of Sept. 28 and Virtual not Physical Due to COVID-19
Every year I weigh the pains of travel vs the networking and knowledge gains of attending VMWorld. Majority of the time the pain doesn’t outweigh the benefits. However, due to COVID-19 VMWare will be making VMWorld virtual this year. I must admit this may get me to attend VMWorld for the first time in three … Explore: VMWare’s VMWorld will be week of Sept. 28…
Upgrade VMWare vCenter 6.7 U1 U2 U3 to 6.7 U3f
As many of you are aware VMware recently came out with a CVE: CVE-2020-3952 that requires taking your existing VMWare vCenter to 6.7 U3f or 7.0. Since going from 6.7 to 7.0 requires a re-deploy of the vCenter I thought doing an in place upgrade would be the quickest way to fix this security vulnerability. … Explore: Upgrade VMWare vCenter 6.7 U1 U2 U3 to…
Advisory Severity Critical VMware vCenter Server updates address sensitive information disclosure vulnerability in the VMware Directory Service (vmdir) (CVE-2020-3952)
VMWare just posted this advisory:https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0006.html vCenters affected:vCenter Server 6.7 (embedded or external PSC) prior to 6.7u3f is affected by CVE-2020-3952. Only if it was upgraded from previous versions 6.0 or 6.5. Clean installations of vCenter Server 6.7 (embedded or external PSC) are not affected. KB to determine if your vCenter is affected:https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/78543 Resolution:Upgrade to 6.7U3f … Explore: Advisory Severity Critical VMware vCenter Server updates address…
ESXCLI to Check & Change Time on VMWare ESXi Host
Legacy example — originally published April 10, 2020. The command later in this article sets the clock to a date in 2020. Do not run that example unchanged. Check your installed ESXi release and approved time-synchronization design before making a clock change. Broadcom’s time-synchronization guidance uses UTC for ESXi manual time settings and points to … Explore: ESXCLI to Check & Change Time on VMWare…
What-If VMWare vRealize Operations for VxRail/vSAN Host Remove from Cluster
Have you ever acquired hardware for a new project that gets killed or moved to the cloud? Has it ever been end of year for a vendor and you acquire additional hardware for future projects? Have you ever been approaching your end of quarter/year and you still have funds that need spent from your budget … Explore: What-If VMWare vRealize Operations for VxRail/vSAN Host Remove…
What-If in VMware vRealize Operations for VxRail/vSAN Host adds to Cluster
One of the things I enjoy about VMWare vRealize Operations is the ability to add or remove HCI nodes in a cluster. I don’t know if I have been fortunate or unfortunate in my career but I have had to do a lot of VxRail/vSAN Ready Node adds. On some occasions I have been requested … Explore: What-If in VMware vRealize Operations for VxRail/vSAN Host…
What-If in VMware vRealize Operations for VxRail/vSAN 6.7/7.0 Workload Placement
I thought I would take a moment to write an article on an exercise that happened to me recently. Recently, I was requested to see if a new project could go on an existing VxRail/vSAN cluster. My trusty tool I like to go to for a quick answer, pretty visuals, and costs matrix is vROPs. … Explore: What-If in VMware vRealize Operations for VxRail/vSAN 6.7/7.0…
VMWare vExpert Cloud Management & NSX Sub Programs
Today I was selected into the vExpert Cloud Mgmt & NSX programs. This is truly an honor and I cannot thank everyone who helped make this possible. Thank you everyone once again. Summary:Once again thank you to VMWare for the trust they have placed in me. This is truly an honor. This also keeps inspiring … Explore: VMWare vExpert Cloud Management & NSX Sub Programs
15 Habits of Innovative IT Leaders by VMWare
VMWare quoted me in their recent article on the 15 Habits of an Innovative IT leader. This was truly a great honor. You can find the article in the below URL:https://www.vmware.com/radius/it-leaders-innovative-habits/ Summary:Once again I cannot thank VMWare enough for this honor.
Excessive Hardware health alarms being triggered for “Sensor -1 type” on ESXi hosts running vSphere 6.7 U3 (74607) Work Around & Solution
Recently while working in my environment I uncovered a known issue and a KB article with a resolution and work around. Here is a step by step of the applied work around. I applied the immediate work around to avoid a vCenter crash, which is never a good thing. Error:Alarm ‘Host hardware sensor state’ on … Explore: Excessive Hardware health alarms being triggered for “Sensor…
Powershell / PowerCLI Script to List & Unmount ISO on VMWare VMs prior to VxRail 4.5 or 4.7 upgrade
In the past I have spoken about needing to remove mounted ISOs from VMs prior to a VxRail upgrade. I have had many people DM me asking if I use a script or do it manually. First, it would only be possible in a small environment to manually remove mounted ISO files or in environments … Explore: Powershell / PowerCLI Script to List & Unmount…
Leveraging -WhatIf command in PowerShell & PowerCLI Scripts
Have you ever been writing a PowerShell or PowerCLI script and wished you could see what would happen if you executed the script just to confirm everything is working properly? Have you ever been been performing single commands that modify the environment and you want to ensure the mod you want is the one applied? … Explore: Leveraging -WhatIf command in PowerShell & PowerCLI Scripts