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  • Laravel Pausable Jobs: Selective Control Over Your Queue Processing

    March 31, 2025

    Laravel Pausable Jobs: Selective Control Over Your Queue Processing

  • Using Laravel Dusk to download Paddle payout PDFs

    January 13, 2025

    Using Laravel Dusk to download Paddle payout PDFs

  • My First PHP Package: The Discord Table Builder

    September 13, 2024

    My First PHP Package: The Discord Table Builder

  • Cloudflare: Deploying a blog in a subdirectory of an existing site

    January 24, 2024

    Cloudflare: Deploying a blog in a subdirectory of an existing site

  • VMware Fusion: Direct USB Keyboard & Mouse

    October 10, 2023

    VMware Fusion: Direct USB Keyboard & Mouse

  • Learnings from a new manager

    June 26, 2023

    Learnings from a new manager

  • Introducing AI Spend: AI API Usage Monitoring Made Easy

    June 10, 2023

    Introducing AI Spend: AI API Usage Monitoring Made Easy

  • Using OpenAI's [free] Content Moderation API

    March 29, 2023

    Using OpenAI's [free] Content Moderation API

  • Tunneling Plugwise Smile P1 Stats to Grafana

    March 11, 2023

    Tunneling Plugwise Smile P1 Stats to Grafana

  • Azure DevOps - Post-job Installing Apple Certificate failing

    November 29, 2022

    Azure DevOps - Post-job Installing Apple Certificate failing

  • AdminPatron: The AI Assistant I wish I had years ago

    October 4, 2022

    AdminPatron: The AI Assistant I wish I had years ago

  • September 12, 2022

    Using Tailscale for Home Lab VPN Connectivity

  • August 9, 2022

    Slack Notifications for Incoming Chatwoot Messages

  • July 19, 2022

    Raspberry Pi + ePaper Display + SurePet Flap

  • Switching Tracks - Saying Goodbye to VMware

    May 24, 2022

    Switching Tracks - Saying Goodbye to VMware

  • Introducing MuteDeck for Zoom (and..)

    May 17, 2022

    Introducing MuteDeck for Zoom (and..)

  • VCF Upgrade Failure with Static NSX-T Routing

    April 29, 2022

    VCF Upgrade Failure with Static NSX-T Routing

  • Transferring Applications between vRealize Network Insight instances

    March 18, 2022

    Transferring Applications between vRealize Network Insight instances

  • Integrating vRealize Automation Cloud & vRealize Network Insight Cloud

    February 9, 2022

    Integrating vRealize Automation Cloud & vRealize Network Insight Cloud

  • vRealize Network Insight Cookbook Update

    December 14, 2021

    vRealize Network Insight Cookbook Update

  • Event-Based Automation with vRealize Network Insight & VEBA

    November 29, 2021

    Event-Based Automation with vRealize Network Insight & VEBA

  • vRealize Automation Action - SSH to Servers Post-Deployment

    November 8, 2021

    vRealize Automation Action - SSH to Servers Post-Deployment

  • Natural Language Searches with PowervRNI

    November 1, 2021

    Natural Language Searches with PowervRNI

  • Securing Platform Communication in a vRealize Network Insight Cluster

    September 7, 2021

    Securing Platform Communication in a vRealize Network Insight Cluster

  • Adding a second network interface to a vRealize Network Insight Collector

    June 9, 2021

    Adding a second network interface to a vRealize Network Insight Collector

  • Bulk Creating AWS VPC Flow Logs

    May 18, 2021

    Bulk Creating AWS VPC Flow Logs

  • Managing GNS3 with PowerShell

    May 3, 2021

    Managing GNS3 with PowerShell

  • Using OAuth for VMware Cloud Authentication

    March 24, 2021

    Using OAuth for VMware Cloud Authentication

  • Using Terraform to deploy vRealize Network Insight Cloud Collector to VMware Cloud on AWS

    March 22, 2021

    Using Terraform to deploy vRealize Network Insight Cloud Collector to VMware Cloud on AWS

  • NSX-T Manager: Increasing API requests per second

    January 15, 2021

    NSX-T Manager: Increasing API requests per second

  • Archiving Network Flows from vRealize Network Insight to Log Insight

    December 9, 2020

    Archiving Network Flows from vRealize Network Insight to Log Insight

  • SmartNIC - The Next Step in Networking

    November 16, 2020

    SmartNIC - The Next Step in Networking

  • Exporting Dashboards from vRealize Log Insight with Python

    November 2, 2020

    Exporting Dashboards from vRealize Log Insight with Python

  • Deploying a VMware SD-WAN Edge to AWS

    September 20, 2020

    Deploying a VMware SD-WAN Edge to AWS

  • VMworld 2020 - Session Picks

    September 6, 2020

    VMworld 2020 - Session Picks

  • Configuration Backups of vRealize Network Insight

    July 22, 2020

    Configuration Backups of vRealize Network Insight

  • July 17, 2020

    Syncing Flows between vRealize Network Insight Collectors

  • Introducing the Stream Deck Plugin for Zoom

    June 17, 2020

    Introducing the Stream Deck Plugin for Zoom

  • vRealize Network Insight Cookbook Now Available!

    June 9, 2020

    vRealize Network Insight Cookbook Now Available!

  • Routed VPN between VMware Cloud on AWS and VyOS

    May 19, 2020

    Routed VPN between VMware Cloud on AWS and VyOS

  • PowervRNI 1.8 Release Notes

    March 27, 2020

    PowervRNI 1.8 Release Notes

  • March 13, 2020

    A better Zoom experience with a Stream Deck

  • IP Address Management with vRealize Network Insight

    March 5, 2020

    IP Address Management with vRealize Network Insight

  • February 11, 2020

    Secure Logging from vRealize Network Insight

  • Adding 100 Switches to vRealize Network Insight in 20 minutes

    January 9, 2020

    Adding 100 Switches to vRealize Network Insight in 20 minutes

  • My 2019 in books

    December 30, 2019

    My 2019 in books

  • Using Azure DevOps Pipelines with Qt

    December 27, 2019

    Using Azure DevOps Pipelines with Qt

  • PowervRNI 1.7: What's New?

    November 19, 2019

    PowervRNI 1.7: What's New?

  • Roneo: A NetFlow Duplicator

    October 16, 2019

    Roneo: A NetFlow Duplicator

  • Developing PowerShell with Visual Studio Code in Containers

    September 6, 2019

    Developing PowerShell with Visual Studio Code in Containers

  • Automating cleaning up NSX-T with PKS protected objects

    August 15, 2019

    Automating cleaning up NSX-T with PKS protected objects

  • Deploying vRealize Network Insight via Ovftool

    June 23, 2019

    Deploying vRealize Network Insight via Ovftool

  • vRealize Network Insight 4.1 - What's New - API Edition

    April 23, 2019

    vRealize Network Insight 4.1 - What's New - API Edition

  • Finishing a Fresh MacOS Install in 21 Minutes

    March 19, 2019

    Finishing a Fresh MacOS Install in 21 Minutes

  • Time for a change!

    January 25, 2019

    Time for a change!

  • Postman Collection for vRealize Network Insight APIs

    January 24, 2019

    Postman Collection for vRealize Network Insight APIs

  • December 30, 2018

    My Home Automation Gear

  • vRealize Network Insight 4.0 - Smaller Gems

    December 23, 2018

    vRealize Network Insight 4.0 - Smaller Gems

  • Why the #vCommunity is important to me

    November 23, 2018

    Why the #vCommunity is important to me

  • Integrating ServiceNow with Network Insight

    November 19, 2018

    Integrating ServiceNow with Network Insight

  • November 8, 2018

    Integrating vRealize Automation with Network Insight

  • Using PowervRNI to connect to Network Insight SaaS

    October 13, 2018

    Using PowervRNI to connect to Network Insight SaaS

  • VMworld EU 2018 - My Session Picks

    October 1, 2018

    VMworld EU 2018 - My Session Picks

  • September 26, 2018

    Integrating vRealize Network Insight and Log Insight

  • Using PowervRNI to configure SNMP settings on data sources

    September 3, 2018

    Using PowervRNI to configure SNMP settings on data sources

  • August 31, 2018

    vRealize Orchestrator Workflow with vRA Event Broker to get Deployment Info

  • August 21, 2018

    VMware NSX-V Control and Management Plane Connections Diagram

  • Getting Started with the NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud API

    August 13, 2018

    Getting Started with the NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud API

  • July 30, 2018

    vRealize Automation and NSX with App Isolation: Internal error

  • vRealize Network Insight 3.8 - What's new in the API?

    June 19, 2018

    vRealize Network Insight 3.8 - What's new in the API?

  • June 14, 2018

    Using PowerNSX to get all routes on NSX Edges

  • Learning NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud - Orchestrator Configuration Basics

    June 11, 2018

    Learning NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud - Orchestrator Configuration Basics

  • NSX-v 6.4.1 Released - Extended HTML5, vSphere 6.7 support & more

    May 25, 2018

    NSX-v 6.4.1 Released - Extended HTML5, vSphere 6.7 support & more

  • Learning NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud - The Basics

    May 8, 2018

    Learning NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud - The Basics

  • Storing the VMware NSX config in version control

    April 30, 2018

    Storing the VMware NSX config in version control

  • April 11, 2018

    Doing Dual ISP Load Balancing with Ubiquiti EdgeRouter

  • March 23, 2018

    VMware NSX & OTRS - Automating Security with Help Desk Systems

  • March 8, 2018

    Deploying VeloCloud on VMware vSphere

  • March 5, 2018

    PowervRNI is now on PowerShell Gallery

  • February 23, 2018

    GRE Tunnels & Dynamic Routing in NSX 6.4

  • February 12, 2018

    Using PowervRNI to Quickly Add Applications

  • February 11, 2018

    CiscoLive EMEA 2018 - Presentation PDFs

  • January 23, 2018

    Using PowervRNI to Quickly Add Data Sources

  • January 16, 2018

    NSX for vSphere 6.4 is here (and it's massive!)

  • January 2, 2018

    Introducing PowervRNI

  • December 23, 2017

    Restoring a NSX Edge Gateway

  • December 3, 2017

    NetFlow on Physical switches with vRealize Network Insight

  • November 23, 2017

    Host Preparation Troubleshooting Enhancements with NSX 6.3.5

  • November 6, 2017

    vRealize Network Insight Search Cheatsheet

  • October 23, 2017

    Building a cheap alternative for CrashPlan for Home

  • October 3, 2017

    Getting a list of VDS Portgroups from the vCenter Database

  • September 4, 2017

    VMworld - Making the most of your time

  • July 27, 2017

    How to define two NetFlow targets in vSphere VDS

  • July 17, 2017

    Editing uneditable VMs in vCenter

  • June 17, 2017

    Qt QNetworkAccessManager causing latency spikes on wifi

  • May 16, 2017

    New VMware Fling - Autopology (Drag and Drop NSX Network Topologies? Yes Please!)

  • April 20, 2017

    Exporting your Amazon Kindle Highlights & Notes to MySQL

  • February 2, 2017

    VMware NSX 6.3 is here!

  • December 30, 2016

    vRealize Network Insight Bulk Import of Data Sources

  • December 19, 2016

    Installing vRealize Network Insight with PowerCLI

  • December 18, 2016

    Using VMware NSX to get IPv6 connectivity at home

  • November 8, 2016

    Connecting a VPN between AWS and VMware NSX

  • October 24, 2016

    Monitoring Firewall Rules with vRealize Network Insight

  • October 19, 2016

    PowerCLI for OS X & Linux Fling

  • October 4, 2016

    NSX SpoofGuard Automatic Approvals through your IPAM

  • September 30, 2016

    VMware Validated Design for SDDC 3.0 Released

  • August 9, 2016

    Please stop stretching your VLANs, virtualize your network

  • July 11, 2016

    VMware NSX 6.2.3 - SSL VPN Behaviour Change

  • July 5, 2016

    Removing the VMware NSX Solution from vCenter

  • June 10, 2016

    VMware NSX 6.2.3 released

  • May 26, 2016

    Deploy and configure VMware NSX in 23 minutes

  • May 20, 2016

    PowerShell Friday: Using the Cisco ACI API

  • May 18, 2016

    Resetting the root & admin password of VMware Identity Manager

  • April 25, 2016

    Introducing vmwareapis.com: a Hosted Project Platypus

  • April 24, 2016

    Updated: Cisco UCS Inventory Script

  • April 12, 2016

    vRealize Operations: Adding an OS Monitor Script

  • March 1, 2016

    Cisco Enters Hyperconverged Market with HyperFlex

  • February 19, 2016

    PowerShell Friday: Configuring vSphere MTU Size

  • February 1, 2016

    VMware NSX PowerShell Extension Open Sourced

  • January 22, 2016

    Introducing the VMware NSX for vSphere PHP Framework

  • January 3, 2016

    Ravello Systems: VMware NSX 6.2 Management Service Stuck in 'Starting'

  • December 30, 2015

    vCloud Director: Removing Network from a vApp without shutting it down

  • December 12, 2015

    Veeam PowerShell: Get Backup Job Storage Size

  • November 22, 2015

    VMware Samples Exchange goes into beta

  • November 6, 2015

    Monitoring a Galera Database Cluster

  • October 26, 2015

    The Future of Virtual Networking from VMworld - Part 2

  • October 18, 2015

    The Future of Virtual Networking from VMworld - Part 1

  • October 14, 2015

    vCloud NFV Kick-starts Telco Providers

  • August 21, 2015

    VMware NSX 6.2: Support for Multiple vCenters

  • August 9, 2015

    Manually preparing ESXi hosts for VMware NSX

  • July 12, 2015

    Integrating VMware NSX with VMware vRealize Log Insight

  • June 17, 2015

    Removing VMware Data Security after vShield to NSX upgrade

  • May 17, 2015

    Leap Second - Cisco Datacenter Effects

  • April 26, 2015

    New VMware Home Lab

  • April 6, 2015

    The (Un)Official VMware VCIX-NV Study Guide

  • April 4, 2015

    Cisco UCS Manager Finally gets HTML5 interface

  • March 17, 2015

    VMware NSX-v Configuration Maximums

  • March 7, 2015

    Installing VMware vGPU on vSphere 6.0

  • February 7, 2015

    Cisco UCS Mini - a deep dive

  • February 3, 2015

    VMware Certification Changes

  • January 31, 2015

    VCIX-NV Objective 5.3 – Troubleshoot Common Connectivity Issues

  • January 20, 2015

    VCIX-NV Objective 7.2 – Manage and Report on an NSX Environment using the NSX Command Line Interface

  • January 17, 2015

    VCIX-NV Objective 5.4 – Troubleshoot Common Services Issues

  • January 6, 2015

    VCIX-NV Objective 7.1 – Administer and Execute calls using the NSX vSphere API

  • December 29, 2014

    VCIX-NV Objective 4.2 – Monitor an NSX Implementation

  • December 27, 2014

    VCIX-NV Objective 5.2 – Troubleshoot Common NSX Component Issues

  • December 20, 2014

    VCIX-NV Objective 5.1 – Troubleshoot Common NSX Installation/Configuration Issues

  • December 10, 2014

    VMware VCIX-NV Exam Experience

  • November 26, 2014

    VCIX-NV Objective 6.3 – Configure and Manage Service Composer

  • November 24, 2014

    VCIX-NV Objective 6.2 – Configure and Administer Role Based Access Control

  • November 23, 2014

    VCIX-NV Objective 6.1 – Configure and Administer Firewall Services

  • November 20, 2014

    VCIX-NV Objective 4.1 – Backup and Restore Network Configurations

  • November 19, 2014

    VCIX-NV Objective 3.3 – Configure and Manage DHCP/DNS/NAT

  • November 17, 2014

    VCIX-NV Objective 3.2 – Configure and Manage Logical Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

  • November 16, 2014

    VCIX-NV Objective 3.1 – Configure and Manage Logical Load Balancing

  • November 13, 2014

    VCIX-NV Objective 2.4 – Configure and Manage Logical Routers

  • November 12, 2014

    VCIX-NV Objective 2.3 – Configure and Manage Layer 2 Bridging

  • November 11, 2014

    VCIX-NV Objective 2.2 – Configure VXLANs

  • November 10, 2014

    VCIX-NV Objective 2.1 – Create and Administer Logical Switches

  • November 9, 2014

    VCIX-NV Objective 1.3 – Configure and Manage Transport Zones

  • November 6, 2014

    VCIX-NV Objective 1.2 – Upgrade VMware NSX Components

  • November 3, 2014

    VCIX-NV Objective 1.1 – Deploy VMware NSX Components

  • November 1, 2014

    Cisco vPC between VDCs in single Nexus 7k (Lab)

  • October 22, 2014

    Cisco OTV Lab with Multicast example

  • October 19, 2014

    VMworld Europe 2014 Recap

  • October 18, 2014

    VMware NSX Best Practices from VMworld

  • October 14, 2014

    vRealize Operations Manager (previously vCOps) 6.0 "Almost Here"

  • October 13, 2014

    VMware Site Recovery Manager Updated to 5.8

  • October 8, 2014

    VMware NSX on a FlexPod (with dynamic routing)

  • September 21, 2014

    Cisco UCS B-Series CPU Upgrades - WILL_BOOT_FAULT

  • September 9, 2014

    VMware vCenter 5.5 Update 2 released!

  • September 4, 2014

    Cisco UCS Grand Slam Announcements

  • August 28, 2014

    Cisco releases Nexus 1000v 3.1 with an Update Manager!

  • August 18, 2014

    Taking the CCIE Datacenter Lab Exam

  • August 7, 2014

    Cisco UCS: Which uplink is listening for which VLAN?

  • July 15, 2014

    Mini version of Cisco UCS Review - Part 1

  • July 7, 2014

    How to boot a UCS C-Series server from iSCSI

  • Cisco UCS Inventory Script

    June 30, 2014

    Cisco UCS Inventory Script

  • June 29, 2014

    Disconnecting an active UCS KVM session

  • June 23, 2014

    Installing Guacamole - HTML5 Remote Desktop

  • June 9, 2014

    Ultimate Cisco Nexus FCoE Configuration Guide

  • June 1, 2014

    Juniper SSG Double Dual Homed VPN

  • April 9, 2014

    CCIE DC Progress Sheet

  • March 23, 2014

    VMware VXLAN Host Preparation: Add virtual NIC: Unknown error

  • March 8, 2014

    VMware VCP Required Recertification

  • March 1, 2014

    VMware NSX: Configuring Load Balancing

  • February 13, 2014

    Design Guide - Deploying VMware NSX with Cisco UCS and Nexus 7000

  • January 12, 2014

    Guacamole - HTML5 Remote Desktop Sweetness

  • November 24, 2013

    Replacing the UCS Central SSL Certificate

  • November 6, 2013

    VMware NSX - Installation

  • November 3, 2013

    VMware NSX - Distributed Services

  • October 23, 2013

    Nexus 5500: Changing Unified Ports on expansion module without reload

  • October 20, 2013

    VMware NSX - General

  • August 21, 2013

    Exchange 2010 SP2 - New-MailboxExportRequest not found

  • August 8, 2013

    Changing ESXi 5.1 Service Console VLAN ID via PowerCLI

  • March 20, 2013

    UCS Explained in video

  • February 22, 2013

    New UCS Blade Server on older UCS Firmware

  • January 1, 2013

    Fixing MySQL slaves with Percona xtrabackup

  • November 11, 2012

    vSphere Web Client 5.1: Must be registered with the Lookup Service

  • August 20, 2012

    IOS Recovery of 3750 switch

  • February 8, 2012

    vCloud Integration Manager

  • February 7, 2012

    Twitter reviews 2011

  • January 15, 2012

    VCAP4-DCA & VCP5 Experiences

  • October 28, 2011

    vCenter plugin URLs

  • October 15, 2011

    Importing .ovf's into VMware Fusion

  • September 4, 2011

    Removing vCloud Agent from ESX(i) host

  • August 27, 2011

    Enabling IPv6 on a Cisco ME3400

  • August 24, 2011

    VMware vCloud Director SSL certificates

  • October 15, 2009

    Dynamic Images

  • October 14, 2009

    Another Snow Leopard issue - Juniper's Network Connect

  • October 12, 2009

    Snow Leopard upgrade - iPod gone?

  • August 7, 2009

    How cool is this.

  • June 4, 2009

    WhatPulse Linux Beta

  • May 14, 2009

    Snapshot hell: Recover a locked vmdk

  • May 4, 2009

    PHP4 IPv6 validation

  • May 3, 2009

    Using this site.

  • November 26, 2008

    %CRYPTO-4-PKT_REPLAY_ERR: decrypt: replay check failed connection id=xxx

  • October 26, 2008

    rtsol under Leopard

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