02 Dec 2016
- PowerCLI: Saying Farewell to Snapins! -
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- VCSA 6.5 CLI Installer now supports new ovftool argument pass-through feature -
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- Automating the installation of VUM UMDS for Linux in vSphere 6.5 -
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- Quick look - vSphere 6.5 Storage Space Reclamation -
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- What’s new in ESXi 6.5 Storage Part III: Thin Hot Extend -
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- HCI Automated Deployment & Configuration: vSphere, vSAN, NSX, VIO The DevOps Way -
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- vCenter 6.5: #SRM, #vSphere Replication, #NSX problems after SSL change (LS_Update_certs.py) -
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- Log Insight 4.0: Agent Enhancements -
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- Log Insight Webhook Shim Updated -
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- vCenter 6.5: Dude, where’re my services? -
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- vSphere 6.5 Core Storage White Paper Now Available -
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- Deploy Kubernetes as a service on Photon Controller v1.1 -
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- Deploy Kubernetes manually on Photon Controller v1.1 and vSAN -
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- VMware Tools Not Installed on Windows 2016, but … -
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- Using Ubiquiti Networks in the home and lab -
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- Troubleshoot OpenStack Neutron + NSX -
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- VMware ESXi Mac Learning dvFilter 2.0 Released (ESXi 6.5 Support) -
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Misc
- Liveblog: Scaling to Your First 10 Million Users -
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- How I built a Lego Rack for the Intel NUCs -
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- How to break Python -
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- Kubernetes resource graphing with Heapster, InfluxDB and Grafana -
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- Q-in-VNI and EFP for Hosting Providers -
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- Neat Project to Install PowerShell Modules from GitHub Projects -
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- Spotlight: Consul KV CLI -
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- Getting to know Consul -
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- Runkit: Prototype and explore your ideas -
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- GpuRamDrive -
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- tsugliani/vdude: my fish prompt -
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25 Nov 2016
- Configure Active Directory Federation for vCloud Director Organization -
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- New vSphere 6.5 REST API and API Explorer -
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- vGhetto Automated vSphere Lab Deployment for vSphere 6.0u2 & vSphere 6.5 -
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- Photon Platform v1.1 is Now Available for Download on GitHub -
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- Custom script bundle is now possible with Auto Deploy in vSphere 6.5 -
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- Virtual SAN High Availability Across Routed Networks -
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- Awaiting too long for this!!! vCenter HA – Part 1 -
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- Awaiting too long for this!!! vCenter HA – Part 2 -
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- Awaiting too long for this!!! vCenter HA – Part 3 -
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- Awaiting too long for this!!! vCenter HA – Part 4 -
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- Log Insight 4.0: Supported Deployment API -
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- Photon Controller v1.1 and vSAN interoperability -
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- New ESXCLI Commands in vSphere 6.5 -
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- ESXi 6.5 Release Notes for free license and white box users -
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Misc
- Unikernels and The End of the General Purpose Operating System -
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- The coming of the Kubernetes distributions -
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- Hype Driven Development -
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- Using GNOME Keyring as Git Credential Helper -
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- Why the fuss about serverless?
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- Stacked Pull Requests: Keeping GitHub Diffs Small -
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- Project Clarity released -
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- Windows Subsystem for Linux Distribution Switcher -
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- dclone: Generate a docker command-line from a running container -
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- Consul 0.7.1 -
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18 Nov 2016
- All vSphere 6.5 release notes & download links -
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- ESXi 6.5 Virtual Appliance is now available -
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- New Release: PowerCLI 6.5 R1 -
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- PowerCLI 6.5 Release 1 and vSAN -
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- How to enable vCenter Server High Availability (VCHA) in vSphere 6.5 w/single ESXi host? -
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- Default hashing algorithm changed in OVFTool 4.2 -
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- vCenter HA Failover Scenarios -
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- vCenter HA Gotcha’s (vSphere 6.5) -
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- vSphere 6.5 Repointing Woes -
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- NSX Identity Firewall – Deep Dive -
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- NSX Full Stack deployment -
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- SysSet – A Syslog Configuration Tool for NSX Edges -
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- The vSAN Witness Appliance in vCloud Air: Part 1 (Overview) -
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- The vSAN Witness Appliance in vCloud Air: Part 2 (OVA Upload) -
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- The vSAN Witness Appliance in vCloud Air: Part 3 (Network) -
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- The vSAN Witness Appliance in vCloud Air: Part 4 (Deployment) -
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- What’s new in ESXi 6.5 Storage Part I: UNMAP -
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- What’s new in ESXi 6.5 Storage Part II: Resignaturing -
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- The Container Engine is a Commodity -
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- Video: Downloading and Installing VICe 0.7.0 -
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- Log Insight API and JSON no content to map due to end-of-input -
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- Log Insight 4.0 Available Now! -
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- VCSA 6.5 Installer Gotchas -
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- VMware Validated Design (VVD) 3.0.2 Released -
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- Deploying VIC v0.7.0 in multi-cluster, multi-DVS infras -
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- USB Ethernet driver for ESXi 6.5 -
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- New Home Lab Build -
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- Homelab – Supermicro 5028d-tnt4 storage driver performance issues and fix -
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- USB 3.0 Ethernet Adapter (NIC) driver for ESXi 6.5 -
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- VMware Certificate Toolkit v0.1.9 Released -
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- vmware/pyvmomi 6.5 released -
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- vSphere Integrated Containers documentation -
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Misc
- You Are Not Paid to Write Code -
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- Veriflow Launches Disruptive Platform -
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- A History of Hard Drives -
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- Seagate Unveils the IronWolf Pro 10TB NAS HDD -
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- Avere Systems - is it a cache, is it a tier, does it even matter? -
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- How To Setup VPC Peering With Ansible -
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- Technology Short Take #73 -
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- The Atomic Series. Part 1 - Introduction to Atomic Host -
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- My Python Virtual Env Setup Instructions -
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- Nomad 0.5 -
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- GoAccess: Awesome open source real-time web log analyzer GUI/Console -
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11 Nov 2016
- Updates to VMDK partitions & disk resizing in VCSA 6.5 -
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- An update on how to retrieve useful information from a vSphere login? -
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- vCenter Server Database retention purge schedule -
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- VCSA alarm for VCDB space utilization in vSphere 6.5 -
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- vSphere 6.5 Feature Preview: vCenter High Availability -
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- vSphere 6.5 Feature Preview: vCenter Server Appliance -
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- NSX in Real Life -
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- vRealize Operation Manager, Who Needs it? -
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- Log Insight 3.6: User Impersonation -
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- Log Insight Agent: Static Fields -
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- Log Insight Agent : Excluding Events with Blacklist -
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- vSAN 2 Nodes ROBO Setup -
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- VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN) Day 2 Operation – Scaling your vSAN -
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- Unable to remove the Guest Introspection service -
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- Kubernetes on vSphere -
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- VIC in a Nutshell -
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- How is VICe Differerent? -
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- Quickly Identify Whether My Virtual Machines Get All CPU Resources They Need -
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- Cloud Native And Container with VMware -
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Misc
- The End of the General Purpose Operating System -
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- Is Apple’s Cloud Key Vault a crypto backdoor? -
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- Pictures from the 100G DWDM interop lab -
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- An Introduction to the VirtualBox CLI -
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- Thinking Out Loud: The Future of Kubernetes -
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- An Advanced Elasticsearch Architecture for High-volume Reindexing -
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- Surface Book review (2016): The laptop to beat doesn’t come cheap -
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- Guesswork and Gambling -
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- Why should students learn to write code? -
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- Homebrew 1.1.0 Released -
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04 Nov 2016
- migrate2vcsa Resources -
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- Will I get Photon OS when I upgrade my VCSA 5.5/6.0 to VCSA 6.5? -
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- vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5 What’s New Rundown -
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- Log Insight 3.6 and vRealize Operations Manager 6.3 Integration Enhancements -
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- Host not Ready Error When Installing NSX Agents -
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- Copy NSX-Edge -
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- Automating deployment of 8-way ECMP -
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- Configure new automatic Space Reclamation (VMFS UNMAP) using vSphere 6.5 APIs -
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- Migrating from VCSA embedded PSC to external PSC -
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- VMware ESXi - I/O Block Size in Virtual Environments -
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- Understanding the Impact of a Noisy Neighbor Using vRealize Operations -
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- vSphere visibility for Network Team -
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- Direct playback & download URLs for VMworld EU 2016 sessions -
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- VMware Integrated OpenStack – Collapse Compute & Edge Clusters -
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- Super easy way of getting ESXi installation date in vSphere 6.5 -
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- VMware{code} Hackathon: One for All and All for One -
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- Can Storage Policies be used with VIC? -
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- vSphere Integrated Containers Engine Version v0.7.0 Released -
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Misc
- Docker in Production: A History of Failure -
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- Ansible 2.2 News -
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- Linux containers in 500 lines of code -
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- Hyper.sh Mixes Containers, Hypervisors, and Something Called ‘Hypernetes’ -
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- clumsy 0.2: Network worsener simulator -
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28 Oct 2016
- Debunking 3 common MYTHS around vCloud Director -
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- NSX Bytes: Important Bug in 6.2.4 to be aware of -
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- vCloud Availability PowerCLI Monitoring Cmdlets -
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- vSphere visibility for Storage Team -
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- How to run a Docker Container on the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5? -
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- 5 ways to a run PowerCLI script using the PowerCLI Docker Container -
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- Introducing VMware Tools 10.1 and 10.0.12 -
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- How to deploy the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5 running on Fusion & Workstation? -
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- Virtual NVMe and Nested ESXi 6.5? -
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Misc
- The Myth of the Root Cause: How Complex Web Systems Fail -
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- Giving Your Product A Soul -
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- Running containers without Docker -
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- Bending the Dynamic vs Static Language Tradeoff -
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- Changelog.com is Open Source -
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- Managing AWS Infrastructure with Ansible -
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- Designing a modern multi-tenant DC network -
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- Cisco Application Centric - Infrastructure Design Guide Release 2.0 (ACI) -
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- DTrace for Linux 2016 -
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- Linux Performance -
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- Seven (More) Deadly Sins of Microservices -
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- OpenShift Application Platform -
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- Open Broadcaster Software - Stream your desktop -
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- Introducing Microsoft Surface Studio -
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- Life after Google -
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- Solarized color settings for Windows command prompt -
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- AWS Data Transfer Costs Pictured! -
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21 Oct 2016
- PowerCLI Core is now available on Docker Hub! -
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- Preparing for a vCenter Server Migration using the vSphere 6.02m Migration Tool – Part 3 -
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- A Look at VMware’s vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5 Release -
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- Big Improvements to vSphere HA and DRS in 6.5 Release -
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- vSphere 6.5 what’s new – VMFS 6 / Core Storage -
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- What is new for Virtual SAN 6.5? -
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- vSphere 6.5 what’s new – HA -
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- vSphere 6.5 what’s new – VVols -
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- Documenting the NSX-v DFW with PowerNSX -
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- PowerCli Core Fling for MAC! How-to guide -
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- Log Insight: Configuration APIs -
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- What a great time – VMworld 2016 Hackathon rules! -
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- How to check the size of your Config & SEAT data in the VCDB in vPostgres? -
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- Nested ESXi Enhancements in vSphere 6.5 -
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- VMware Gets Serious about RESTful APIs and Expanding PowerCLI -
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- Vagrant-Photon OS Bug and Workaround -
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- PowerCLI Core v1.0 Fling released -
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Misc
- Does My Design Project Need a Strategy? -
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- Principles of Automation -
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- Building Network-Friendly Single-Page Apps -
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- Fixing Python Performance with Rust -
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- Kubernetes, Mesos, and Swarm: Comparing the Rancher Orchestration Engine Options -
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- Network Automation with Salt and NAPALM -
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- docker/infrakit: A Quick Tutorial -
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- Combining Heat with OpenStack Vagrant provider -
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- Patching windows servers with Ansible -
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- What’s New in Sophos XG Firewall v16 -
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- typora: a truly minimal markdown editor -
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14 Oct 2016
- vCloud Director SP 8.0.2 - Important upgrade for Zerto clients -
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- NSX Bytes: NSX Edge feature and performance matrix -
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- Automating vCloud with Microsoft Powershell – Part Two, Automatic Shutdown and Startup -
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- Preparing for a vCenter Server Migration using the vSphere 6.0U2m Migration Tool – Part 2 -
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- Getting Comfortable with vPostgres and the vCenter Server Appliance – Part 3 -
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- VMware Cloud™ on AWS – A Closer Look -
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- Deploy a Linux VM using Customization Wizard using Perl SDK -
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- Hacking Photon OS to Do Your Bidding -
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Misc
- No SDN Kubernetes -
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- Organising remote access to your home lab with Sophos UTM -
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- Build your infrastructure with Terraform, Nomad and Consul on Scaleway -
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- Revisiting BGP on Linux w/ Cumulus Topology Converter -
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- Configuring Windows machines for Ansible -
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- Build Your Own Slack App and Bot -
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- Vault 0.6.2 - Let’s talk about it -
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- A Survival Guide for Containerizing your Infrastructure — Part 1: Why switch? -
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- Static types in Python, oh my(py)! -
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- Technology Short Take #72 -
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07 Oct 2016
- vCloud Director 8.0.2 for Service Providers Release Notes -
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- Automating the iland cloud using Microsoft Powershell and PowerCLI - Part One -
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- First Look: vRealize Network Insight (Arkin)
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- VMware Validated Design for SDDC 3.0 Now Generally Available -
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- Why to take part in VMware VMworld 2016 Europe Hackathon? -
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- Some nice enhancements to Docker Volume Driver for vSphere v0.7 -
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- Monitor Your DHCP Scopes With vRealise Log Insight -
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- NSX - Custom Regex queries for Log Insight -
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- VMware Integrated OpenStack 3.0 Released -
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- Automating vCenter Server 5.5 repoint to a new SSO 5.5 -
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- vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) Migration Tool officially GAs w/vSphere 6.0 Update 2m -
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- VMXNET3 driver now included in Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)+ -
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- SDDC Dashboards: The Kitchen -
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- Easyvirt DCscope, un Nantais à l’assaut de vRealize Operations (FRENCH) -
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- Building vSphere Plugins with the HTML Client SDK Fling -
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- How to tell if an ESXi host is a VSAN Witness Virtual Appliance programmatically? -
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- Check the size of your Config + Stats, Events, Alarms & Tasks (SEAT) data in the VCDB? -
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- FlashArray vRealize Orchestrator workflow package 1.7 released -
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- Creating a new virtual/hard disk with vrealize orchestrator -
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- Query ESXi Hosts Serial Numbers -
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Misc
- One year on Google Cloud - Whats great, Whats not -
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- The Overlay Problem: Getting In and Out -
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- Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud -
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- Grafana Screencasts #10 - Dashboard Discovery & Sharing -
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- The software engineer’s guide to asserting dominance in the workplace -
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- How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 -
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- Introducing InfraKit, A Toolkit For Creating/Managing Declarative, Self-Healing Infrastructure -
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- Running OpenStack Rally tests from a Docker container -
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- I Don’t Want to Talk to my Cloud Provider -
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- Breaking into WPA Enterprise networks with Air-Hammer -
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- TLS Version intolerance: Working around bugs in legacy TLS stacks -
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- Packer templates for macOS: Updated for 10.12 Sierra -
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- NVMe falling below SATA Pricing ? Get Ready, it’s happening -
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- 11 f**k ups whilst making a chatbot -
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- A Service Mesh for Kubernetes, Part I: Top-Line Service Metrics -
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- How to save the princess in 8 programming languages -
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- Chivalry is dead, and so is testing. -
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- A Triple-Provider Vagrant Environment -
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- Playing with OpenStack Vagrant provider -
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- RethinkDB is shutting down -
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- Python: Hues -
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- Art of README -
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- GitHub Dumps REST Calls for Facebook’s GraphQL -
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- How I fixed my Wi-Fi by ditching shitty consumer hardware
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30 Sep 2016
- VMware vCloud: This VM has a compliance failure against its Storage Policy. -
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- PowerCLI to deploy VMs in VMware vCloud and connect to network -
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- VMware vRealize Network Insight Health and Availability -
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- VMware Validated Designs Documentation 3.0 -
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- Use vNIC filter_hash in Log Insight -
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- VMware Virtual SAN 6.2: Proof of Concept Guide -
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- Architecture of Harbor: An Open Source Enterprise-class Registry Server -
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- Photon Controller v1.0 is available -
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- VMware Photon Administration Guide -
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- Networking in vSphere Integrated Containers -
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- Seeding Veeam Cloud Connect – Part 3: replication jobs -
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Misc
- About SaltStack -
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- Introducing TLS 1.3 -
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- Getting Started with HTTP/2: Part 2 -
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- DC/OS 1.8: Stepping up container security and orchestration -
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- Windows 10 has an undocumented certificate pinning feature -
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- Why I started to use Go more than Python or Ruby ? -
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- Why I’m Now Using VirtualBox with Vagrant -
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- Red Hat, Google Engineers Work on a Way for Kubernetes to Run Containers Without Docker -
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- Why Your Keyboard is Bad for Your Body -
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- LXD, ZFS and bridged networking on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS -
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- NFV, Skills & Mutable vs. Immutable Infrastructure -
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