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To VCDX with a fictitious design – Part 1
During my time preparing the design for the VCDX application and preparing for the defense I found posts from other people’s experience to be very helpful. Now that I am VCDX 142 I think it is time for...
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Handling sub-optimal design decisions before the VCDX defense
So you’re design got accepted for a defense, that’s great! While preparing you find out there are few things you want to change, a few “holes” in the design. Maybe it’s questionable design decisions,...
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Virtualizing critical apps – Reserve memory when there is no RAM overcommitment?
I get this question a lot, should I have memory reservation for critical apps even if I am plentiful on RAM and there is no over commitment? VMware’s best practice for virtualizing critical...
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To VCDX with a fictitious design – Part 2 – some lessons learned
My first post ever in this blog was To VCDX with a fictitious design – Part 1 where I gave a high level overview of my VCDX journey. In this post I want to get more into the details and lessons learned...
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How to create top notch VCDX application documents
I don’t presume our VCDX application documents were perfect, far from it. We had holes in our design that kept me up at night, but we had pretty good damn documentation which is even more important...
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Incorporating business requirements into your VCDX presentation
This is a question I asked my self many time throughout our preparation to the defense and we had several iterations of it before we got to the final version, how do I incorporate the business...
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Important not to burnout while preparing for the VCDX defense
I felt it a lot, the guilt of not working hard enough on my presentation before the defense, especially after submission of the application while waiting for the results to come in. It took a few weeks...
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VMworld 2014 pre-conference post
Yes, this is this time of the year! No I am not talking about kids going to camp, or fall coming upon us. I mean the best conference of the year, VMworld. This is my 9th or 10th time, I lost count....
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A few tips for the VCDX defense
Tips for the defense from existing VCDXs were one of the things that helped me the most preparing for mine. one thing to note before we start is that each VCDX has it’s own experience and opinion...
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New DBaaS capabilities in VMware vCAC 6.1
One of the main things customer need in regards to cloud automation is DBaaS. In vCAC6.1 VMware has added the capability to ingest a production database into a VM and allow it to be redeployed as a...
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How EMC IT are delivering DBaaS and ITaaS with VMware vCloud suit
EMC IT has released a few amazing resources that explain how they achieved a full ITaaS and DBaaS for their users, it is a must read and watch for anyone interested in ITaaS and DBaaS. Whitepaper: EMC...
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vCAC 6.1 Application Services (AppD) Installation notes
Recently i installed the new vCAC 6.1 in my lab, vCAC 6.1 has many improvements, if you’d like to learn more about the improvements you can read Omer Kushmaro’s (Twitter @elastic_Skies) excellent blog...
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VMware Acquires Continuent what does this mean?
Today, VMware announced the purchase of Continuent , a software company that delivers replication , high availability and disaster recovery capabilities to databases. According to the following VMware...
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How to configure vRO (vCO) AD permissions on workflows
This is a small “How to” that I was thinking might be useful to some folks having the same requirement as I did today. before I begin you will see in this post me referring to vRA and vRO as vCAC and...
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Quick and easy vRA ASD demo – send email
Let’s say you want to test vRealize Automation Advanced Service Designer which allows you to create custom services that are based on Orchestrator, sending an email from the vRA catalog is a quick and...
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vRA tidbit – AWS provisioning and the key pair conundrum
One of the main advantages of vRealize automation in the Cloud management space is that it provides customers with choices, this is true in many aspects of the solution like where to consume services...
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VMware openness for humanity
Last week I attended VMware’s World wide sales kick off event where all of VMware’s sales organization gathered in New Orleans to learn about the vision for the future, celebrate the wins of the past...
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How to create “Network Selection” drop-down in vRealize Automation 6.2
It’s been a while since I blogged, on the work front things are hectic and I am involved in many PoC’s for vRA, fun times. I created this step by step guide for a very simple ask from a customer of...
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How to setup login with just the username in vRealize Automation 6.2
Actually, “how to setup default domain in the Identity appliance using jxplorer” would probably be a better title for this post but I chose to put the emphasis on the end result to make it clearer what...
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Taking my career to the next level
If your reading this it’s probably because you are wondering where I am heading, so I’ll start with that first: I recently accepted a new position with a bigger impact on VMware and its customers and...
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