I’ve been getting into self hosting a lot more services over the past few weeks and months as I’ve been on a quest to actively get rid of subscriptions and cloud services and hosting the services myself. At the start, I just made these services available over VPN because I didn’t feel comfortable exposing them to the internet. But as time went on, I noticed I was really missing the public access. So I decided to figure out how to safely expose services publicly. ...
VCF 9 - News and Thoughts
Today is the day a lot of people have been looking forward to for a long time. Ever since VMware by Broadcom announced VCF 9 at VMware Explore Las Vegas 2024, people have been wondering what this release would be like. I was one of those people as well. Over the past few weeks, during the beta program, and during a briefing we got through the vExpert program, a lot was made clear. ...
VMware Explore Las Vegas 2025 - Tips for a succesful conference
VMware Explore Las Vegas 2025 is almost upon us! In a little over 100 days, the biggest virtualisation conference will kick off in Las Vegas. Just like last year, I’ll be going again with high expectations! In this post I want to take a moment to talk about some tips and tricks to make your Explore a succesful conference. Packing Last year, I got a new found appreciation for humidity. Las Vegas is in a desert after all, but I underestimated how much of an effect it would have on my lips and skin. By day 3, my lips were all cracked and the skin on my hands was irritated, very dry and becoming a wound. The dry desert air, combined with non-stop AC really did a number on me. So the first tip: pack lipbalm and moisturizing creme for your skin! If you forget, just pick it up at a CVS in Vegas, you will need it. ...
VMUG Connect 2025
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. Naturally, I wanted to experience that first hand. He wasn’t lying… ...
Changing DNS server in NSX
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. This configuration is not synchronized! ...
Speaking at VMware Explore for the first time
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. ...
VMware Explore Las Vegas 2024 - Why you should go
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. ...
Daily redeploy of functions on VEBA
This post outlines how you can get a daily redeploy of functions on VEBA.
VMware Explore 2023 Barcelona Experience
This post recounts my experience at VMware Explore 2023 in Barcelona.
Migrating Blog to Hugo
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. ...