I was going to hold off on this release until a couple bigger pending changes were finished — but there are a handful of fixes for problems that people are running into. I thought about doing a 3.45.5 release with …… · release, going, fixes, continue, reading

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Transforming IT with VMware Cloud Hello, dear readers! I hope this message finds you all in great spirits. I’ve been on a considerable hiatus since the last two years, when I changed roles from a Cloud Management… · vrealize, automation, vmware, cloud, memory

Rob Bos and I launched a new website, the Microsoft Tech Hub, where we collect technical content in the Microsoft space. It’s categorized, grouped, and filterable so it’s easy to find exactly what you’re interested in… · copilot, github, code, features, microsoft

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I stopped using IOS's to create VM's. I started using 'cloud images' I might expand on the resons to do this here... lets hope this feature request in the GUI virt-manager gets some traction… · using, virt, manager, started, com

The intent of this post is to level set and talk through the architecture behind the AI In A Box quick start I’ve developed. This is also part of a longer running post calling out all the various technology and… · post, azure, introduction, through, box

VMware Explore US is just around the corner and we are already looking forward for the best things about Explore we are getting every single year. Even more excited to hear about all the changes that happened and are… · tanzu, tmc, management, cluster, vmware

It’s been a while since I posted on this blog! Not because I stopped blogging or caring about the community, but in the past year I focused my efforts on publishing new content and articles in the Tech Community website… · content, blog, microsoft, platform, blogging

New Relic has announced new agentic AI integrations with Microsoft Azure designed to streamline incident response, reduce mean time to… Exabeam and Recorded Future have expanded their technology partnership to integrate… · announced, its, time, exabeam, partnership

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This is my entry for this year’s Azure Back To School. Massive shout-out to Dwayne Natwick for organising this every year! If you’re building on Azure, integrating GitHub Copilot into your workflow can save time, reduce… · azure, copilot, year, github, repos

Today we wake up with the answer to the long awaited question of how Broadcom would change the license requirements for VMware products. Related : VMware by Broadcom Dramatically Simplifies Offer Lineup and Licensing… · broadcom, vmware, long, would, change

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I’ve been looking at how many tiles are changed when updating OSM data in order to better guide resource estimations, and have completed some …

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A summary update on Azure news that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, Security Copilot and Sentinel topics. Save time digging around to find recent releases and… · microsoft, security, azure, sentinel, cloud

Last year I didn’t post much on my blog. So here again a post that is the first for this year. Let’s see if I can find the time to do more this year. Recently I am kept busy with Microsoft Azure and often switch between… · post, blog, want, docker, time

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More and more companies are diving into AI projects. From my perspective, many of these companies jumped into AI without a robust understanding of how the project process should unfold According to a RAND report, private… · azure, devops, fabric, pipelines, companies

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I was working on a Migration of Veritas Enterprise Vault Archives in to Office 365 recently which made me writhing this quick couple of lines to share the approach with others. I’m thinking of elaborating the process in… · enterprise, vault, lines, others, useful

I’ve talked about sovereignty in Azure (or cloud in general) before.. and we are going to dive a little deeper into it this time. What is it, how do you configure it, and what guardrails can you put in place? TLDR: I’ve… · cloud, encryption, azure, options, sovereignty

Heads up on some upcoming changes to CloudSkew's pricing model. This week, the Azure Community conference featured CloudSkew. We discussed how CloudSkew's internals were built on top of Azure. cloudskew.com just crossed… · cloudskew, azure, heads, some, upcoming

The year 2017 almost has come to an end A year I traveled a lot and spent many hours sitting in planes In total, I have made close to 50 flights A bonus at the Another month has gone by, and I am a bit late with my story… · month, azure, service, year, 2017

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Well, this blog post has been 3 months in the works – in fact a draft has been sitting in WordPress since September when I collaborated with Kim Bottu on his article about Integrating CloudHealth and vROps, the plan was… · vmware, been, continue, reading, vexpert

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Hello all, Everybody who works with Azure knows that making sure the costs don’t go through the roof is vital. For Azure virtual machines we have a couple of standard cost. These are the running cost for the virtual… · microsoft, azure, hello, virtual, avd

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Oh my how time flies. It was just about 6 months ago that I was blogging about the release of vRA 7.2 and all the awesomeness within. Since then, VMware’s Cloud Management Business Unit has been hard at work developing… · azure, vra, release, resources, native

VirtualAPT has rebranded to View Labs! Click here if you are not redirected to our new site. · virtualapt, rebranded, view, labs, click

Last year at VMworld 2014, I had some fantastic experiences and met heaps of great people (some of them are the kind of people who talk funny and use words like ‘heaps!’). I found myself challenged by certain… · some, year, people, vmworld, goals

People, I am SO very excited for the launch of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 because the work I’ve been doing for over a year has finally arrived. I’ve been muzzled so long that I’ve forgotten how it feels to publish new… · vmware, been, because, certification, current

This blog about technical information.. Azure Essentials Assessment Answers Azure Management Tools Which cloud offering focuses on the consumption of services? Sol: SaaS Which... · azure, blog, technical, information, essentials

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Now also available as a complete five and a half hour course on Pluralsight! I do a lot of demos. I write a lot of blog posts. Thing is though, none of them really sell the whole Azure picture; the BIG picture. The… · azure, hour, available, course, pluralsight

To be fair some of my posts have been absent of late as it has yet again been a very busy year! Whilst rebuilding the lab though I did want to just highlight… So like many years I have decided to do another list of… · lab, some, been, again, year

Recently I started building out some Azure infrastructure. Few months in I noticed a new Azure subscription that I didn't create. After some digging I found it was a "free trial" that one of the guys was using the learn… · azure, subscription, found, block, didn

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Perhaps the recent outage of AWS’s flagship region, us-east-1, got you thinking, “What if we had to move to another cloud?” or “What if we went multi-region to mitigate faults with AWS?”. I have seen some knee-jerk… · uninstall, system, some, firefox, launcher

VM Farms' new division stack.io has arrived! Check out how we can deliver the power of the public cloud here. We are a company of Site Reliability Engineers (SRE). Our focus is to help you adopt and develop a DevOps… · focus, database, farms, division, stack

After writing this blogpost on Adding a persistent disk via Powershell with Citrix MCS running… Yesterday one of our SEs mentioned he was talking to a customer and this… One of the customers I was engaged with ran into… · after, powershell, citrix, customer, found

A while back, I was on a call with VMware support, working through a pretty standard issue. Nothing crazy, until the engineer dropped this simple question: “Did you take an offline snapshot of your vCenter before… · call, vmware, question, offline, snapshot