June 22 – June 28, 2026
Two years ago, Broadcom finished its $61 billion acquisition of VMware and immediately started burning the old world down. Price hikes of 150% to over 1,000%. Perpetual licensing gone. 168 products gutted to four bundles. Lawsuits. Audit letters with three-day deadlines. The enterprise IT world lost its mind.
After years of running a Proxmox cluster, I migrated my entire homelab to NixOS with Incus. I explain the philosophical friction of imperative 'appliance' OSs vs declarative hosts, share how I migrated my LXC/VM workloads, and why it is the perfect infrastructure to manage using AI agents.
I was recently cleaning up some orphaned vSphere Container Volumes and while I was able to compare the Persistent Volumes (PV) IDs against the ones currently in use by a couple of Kubernetes cluste…
I’m slowly developing my own list of advice: have a creative mindset, embrace radical transparency, and write down what makes you happy. I’d like to add one more to the list: stealing is a skill!
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) first introduced the Brownfield Import capability in VCF 5.2, making it easy for customers to onboard their existing vSphere environments into a VCF deployment. While …
You are unable to login to use the admin@vsp.local API account used for interacting with various components in running in a Services Runtime platform. Password
Resetting the vmware-system-user password for VMware Cloud Foundation Services Runtime
Loops, harnesses, and why even loop skeptics may end up with them.
Self-contained PXE and HTTP boot server. Single binary. Zero config. 50+ distros out of the box.
Sorry I’ve been quiet lately. My head has been down on my newest adventure. I’m so used to being the sole operator, platform engineer, SRE, or whatever that day brings that it’s odd to take a step back and be tasked with providing enterprise cybersecurity for cloud environments that other teams are operating. I’ve had so many cool new projects that will make for some great technical blogs, so I figured I would start with this one. The idea is simple: how do you provide your organization with hardened operating systems that teams can actually deploy into the cloud? A lot of compliance terms and frameworks get tossed around, but the vision is this: how do you provide an image factory of CIS-hardened AMIs, bake in a custom baseline of tools, and share those images across numerous AWS accounts and organizations?
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VCF Automation (VCFA) is the new cloud management layer on top of VCF. Which brings the question how can you import legacy VM workloads under VCF Automation management? VCFA provides infrastructure…
In which I painstakingly remove functionality from a Linux live image. Like a normal person.
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VCF 9.1 introduces VCF Management Services - but what is it and why do I need it
Supacode is an agent-first ghostty-based terminal UI for Mac, providing "coding agent harness session management" along with some GitHub PR and git worktree features.
Recently, a friend of mine asked me what resources I'd recommend to start learning about Kubernetes. He was a victim of the layoffs that seem to be so prevalent right now and has experience as a classic SysOps / SysAdmin engineer but no expose to Kubernetes yet and wanted to learn to help improve his job-hunting prospects.
I wasn't sure what to recommend at first, it's been a long time since I was learning Kubernetes for the first time and wasn't sure what was still useful and relevant but what follows is what I ended up sharing with him, and now with all of you.
When Claude drives you off the cliff
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If you’ve been setting up VMware Memory Tiering or thinking about it, you’ve probably asked yourself at some point: what happens to Memory Large Pages? It’s a great question, and I’m glad you’ve asked it, because the answer changes how you need to plan your capacity and configure your VMs. Let me walk you through … Continued
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 ships with ESX 9.1 and a tightly integrated NSX/vSAN stack, and that integration makes your NIC firmware matter more than it used to. RDMA over Converged…
When deploying a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 Fleet, users specify either a Simple or High Availability (HA) deployment model along with the desired deployment size: Small, Medium or Large…
vSphere Configuration Profiles, first introduced in VMware vSphere 8.0, allows VMware Cloud Foundation administrators to manage the ESX host configuration at a cluster level. In this article, we will discuss how this feature compares to Host Profiles, and how to transition from Host Profiles to vSphere Configuration Profiles in vSphere 9. In this blog we … Continued
AI can make implementation cheap while making review and judgment more expensive.
