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I Just Bought Some Kitchen Faucets/Hypervisors

A few weeks ago I discovered leak in one of my kitchen faucets. At the time I managed to fix it - but it was evident, it would not hold for long, so I needed to get new ones. The previous ones had …

  • Design
  • vSphere
  • Miscellaneous
9 min read

Configuring SSH Equivalence for Oracle RAC

SSH Equivalence is one of the pre-requisites needed for an Oracle RAC installation. There are a number of posts on how to do this like here or here, and Oracle even have been so kind as to provide a …

  • Automation
  • Design
  • Management
  • Scripting
4 min read

The SSH Key Problem With Cloned Linux VM’s

First let me start off this by saying – the way this is effects you will differ entirely on your organizational procedures and security requirements. We all love templates – don’t we? I mean they are …

  • Design
  • Linux
  • Security
  • vSphere
5 min read

Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Cloud Architect?

This question is something that I have come across in a number of ways and variations over the past few months and on some occasions I have actually been asked the following: Are you a cloud …

  • Design
  • Management
  • Architecture
  • Cloud
6 min read

VCAP5-DCD - Mission Accomplished

As you can deduct from the title of this post – yes I passed. I scored a 345 today (passing mark was 300). I wanted to share with you my feelings and thoughts about the exam that I sat today. Not all …

  • Design
  • VCDX
  • VMware
  • Certification
3 min read

VMworld Session Voting is now Open!!

Sorry for the shameless plug – but the amount of amazing sessions that are available are enormous – 1164 of them to be precise – and all of these are open for public voting. Forbes Guthrie, Scott Lowe …

  • Design
  • VMworld
  • Book
1 min read

VMware vSphere Design Book - Update

Our book page has now been updated with the following info: Table of Contents Introduction. Chapter 1 An Introduction to Designing VMware Environments. Chapter 2 ESX vs. ESXi. Chapter 3 Designing the …

  • Design
  • vSphere
  • Book
  • VMware