WHAT. A. WEEK! I can’t put it any other way. This past week, I was in St. Louis to attend the VMUG Leader Summit and the inaugural VMUG Connect together with my co-VMUG leader, Kristof Asaert. VMUG Leader Summit When the submission form for the leader summit opened late last year, I jumped on it immediately. Kristof had attended the previous one in Lissbon and has been consistently saying how great it was....

We recently spun up a new datacenter and used another site to bootstrap our DNS configuration. Now that we’ve got local DNS services, it’s time to change all our configuration! In this article I’ll show you how you can change the DNS configuration in your NSX environment. The process is the same for both the managers as the edge nodes. Keep in mind that you will have to perform these steps on ALL your managers and edge nodes....

VMware Explore 2024 Las Vegas is in full swing and what a ride it’s been already! I love attending VMware Explore, it’s my favorite event of the year. Having the opportunity to talk to so many amazing people and getting to know them better has been really rewarding. As much as I love attending sessions, there has always been an itch. An itch to get up there myself and share something I’ve done with the rest of the community....

Summer is beginning, school is almost out here so that means it’s time to start preparing for my favorite time of the year, the VMware Explore conferences! In the past, I’ve always gone to Barcelona because it’s the closest to Belgium. This year I decided to change things up and also attend Explore in Las Vegas. In this post, I will go through some of the top reasons why you should attend the Explore conference....

This post outlines how you can get a daily redeploy of functions on VEBA.

This post recounts my experience at VMware Explore 2023 in Barcelona.

Ever since I started my blog back in 2016, it’s been running on wordpress. It took me a while before I got to a setup that I liked. Back when I started, I had chosen a free hoster. This quickly presented issues as I was not satisfied with the speed of my blog. The blog was moved around 2 or 3 more times before I ended up going to my current hoster....

This week I am playing around with vROPS. I was trying to set up an HTTP check against one of the APIs we host internally. This took me a bit longer than I would have liked. In vROPS 8, VMware switched to the telegraf agent for agent-based monitoring. It took me a while to figure out, but HTTP checks are done using the telegraf agent. Let’s install the agent on one of our servers, so we can configure HTTP checks in vROPS!...

This post outlines how you can build Server templates with Packer