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2023

Restore of a Wordpress deployment is stuck redirecting the port

Backups and Restores using Velero in TKGm 1.6.1

Upgrading Cloud Director 10.4.1 to 10.5

Unable to upgrade the database: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: could not open shared memory segment: No such file or directory

Installing and Configuring Velero in TKGm 1.6.1 on vSphere

Upgrading CSE-deployed Kubernetes clusters from TKG 1.5.4 to TKG 1.6.1

Upgrading VCD Container Service Extension from 4.0.1 to 4.0.3

Understanding and Deploying TKGm 1.6 into vSphere

Forwarding Cloud Director App LaunchPad logs to vRealize Log Insight using the vRLI Agent

EFI shell missing from boot menu

New role at VMware - Cloud Solutions Architect

CSE, TKG and TKr release mapping table

2022

VCSA 7.0 File-based restore failing at 80%

Create an Azure Virtual Network Gateway IPSec VPN to PFSense

Convert a video file to a GIF using a MacOS Automator task

Homelab - Routing and VLANs with a PFSense VM on a single host

How to install vRealize Operations Telegraf agent using vRealize Automation and SaltStack Config

Change DNS server settings on a vIDM appliance

Watch dvPortgroup Uplink Port changes

"HTTP 405 - Method Not Allowed" when attempting vROPs Telegraf install with SaltStack

SaltStack Config 8.8 minions missing on fresh install

Ubuntu, Cloud-Init, vSphere and vRealize Automation - A short tale of misery

VMware TAM - A Three Year Retrospective

2020

VCP-NV 2020 (2V0-41.20) Exam Prep Study Guide

Error LCMVRLICONFIG40091 while deploying vRealize Log Insight 8.1 with vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.1

VCP-CMA 2020 (2V0-31.20)

New Hugo blog theme - ClarityUI

vCenter 6.7 U3 to vCenter 7.0 upgrade failing at pre-check with an internal error

vSAN HCL Database Partnerweb Port Requirements

How to replace a vCenter password in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.1 using the API

Download a private GitHub Repo using AWS Lambda

How to download a private GitHub repository ZIP via API

How to replace the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.1 certificate using the API

How to build a per-guest filesystem report in vRealize Operations using the 'Breakdown By' feature

How to replace vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.1 self-signed certificate with a certificate from your Microsoft CA

vRA 8.1 Custom Resource error: HTTP 500 when creating AD User custom resource

Reference list of vRealize Automation's public cloud blueprint objects

Update - Deploy a Hugo website from GitHub to S3 using GitHub Webhooks, API Gateway and Lambda

vRealize Log Insight Content Pack for PFSense Firewall Logs

2019

Bulk delete Canceled Alerts in vRealize Operations using the REST API and Postman

Automate common VM changes after converting a VM to vSphere

Identifying Uncommitted Space culprits with PowerCLI

Unable to push CA certificates and CRLs to host

vVols Endpoint - Failed to establish connection on ESXi host

Install Firely III on FreeNAS

Using Regex in vRealize Orchestrator - extracting useful information from a VM name

Unable to authenticate against LDAPS in vCloud Director 9.5

vExpert 2019!

Back from VMware's World Wide Kickoff event

I'm now at VMware!

Managing Windows Server VM templates with Packer - Part 1

2018

Poor performance generating entropy in a VM from /dev/random

Deploy a Hugo website from GitHub to S3 using GitHub Webhooks, API Gateway and Lambda

vCloud Director 9.5 UI - First impressions

vCloud Director 9.5 has been released!

Retrieve vCenter as an SdkConnection from vCloud Director in vRealize Orchestrator

vRO 7.5 Upgrade/Migration - Failed to validate the source vRealize Orchestrator database.

Sending VM keystrokes using vRealize Orchestrator

VclAbstractObjectValue - Unable to serialize object

vCloud Director metrics - unable to configure metric, conflicts with existing column

NSX Manager upgrade reports: Insufficient disk space

How to restart the BMC on a Quanta server

vRealize Operations Manager - Outbound REST Notification log location

Enumerate vRO Workflow Inputs into a JSON object

My humble homelab - Version 1

Auto deploy a Hugo website from GitHub to S3 - Part 2

Using Docker as an adhoc NodeJS package manager

Auto deploy a Hugo website from GitHub to S3 - Part 1

CassandraDB Shell - Unable to connect to any servers

vCloud Availability - vCD Gateway creation failed

2017

Dell Bootable Firmware Update ISO - apply_updates.sh is invalid

Updating a Route53 domain's Name Servers

Studying for the VCAP6-Design DCV

VCAP6-DCV Design certification achieved!

CA-signed vCloud Director certificates no longer trusted – SAN missing

PSC 6.0U3 not respecting certool.cfg settings when generating VMCA CSR

Empty inventory after SSO v5.5 to PSC v6.0 U3 migration

SYSTEM_REFRESH_VIMSERVER – Could not register vCloud Director as an extension to vCenter Server

‘java.lang.NullPointerException’ received when modifying objects in vCloud Director

vSphere 6 certificate templates with SHA256 encryption

2016

Update Export Failed – Converting Windows SSO to PSC Appliance

vCloud Director and SAML Federation