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vSphere 5 swap to host cache: forcing & reporting
Quick & dirty post: If you ever need to demonstrate ESXi 5′s new swapping to host cache feature, I’ve found the easiest way to do that is to create two VMs that over-commit the host memory (and...
View ArticleAustin’s first vBeers! #vBeersATX #vBeers
Love VMware or virtualization in general? Love beer? Then let’s combine them! Join us for the first in a series of Austin Texas vBeers at Opal Divine’s Marina, in front of Fry’s at Mopac/1325 and...
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Give Back To Your Community
If you’ve been following the national news as of late, you might be aware of the record-breaking drought & high temperatures that have been plaguing Texas this year. As I understand it, our weather...
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EMC Consulting: rock stars wanted!
Just a quick note to let you know that EMC Consulting is hiring within the Cloud & Virtual Data Center practice. I joined EMC Consulting in early October, and I’m very glad that I did. I’ve met a...
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#CloudCamp Austin: Lightning Talk with @thinkingserious
On Sunday March 11th, I had the pleasure of attending CloudCamp in downtown Austin during SXSW. If you aren’t familiar with it, CloudCamp is an “unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing...
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My experience at #IndyVMUG #DemoDays2012
I had an opportunity to speak at the Indianapolis VMUG last Thursday, July 26th, thanks to a gracious invitation from Mike Ellis and Kyle Ruddy. This was my second VMUG user conference in Indianapolis;...
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#AWS Glacier & SNS #PowerShell cmdlets
So, yeah, I finally finished writing this. In terms of coding projects, this one has been the most challenging for a number of reasons. First, AWS Glacier is cold storage, which means that vault...
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SSL all the WordPress!
I’ve been running my wp-admin page over SSL for a while now, having purchased a signed SSL certificate through my web hosting provider. I recently installed the WordPress HTTPS plugin but was...
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Quick tip: PowerShell here-strings don’t like whitespace
Today I was writing a bit of raw XML to be used as a SOAP message. Being a person who enjoys writing easy to read code, I declared my variable using here-string notation, pasted in the appropriate XML...
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Thoughts on VMworld 2018
I had the privilege of attending VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas as a blogger (thank you, VMware social team!). It was a unique experience for me, as I’ve attended the show as a vendor employee for a number...
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