After You Migrate: Cleanup, Governance, and Preventing Unmanaged Disks from Coming Back
TL;DR Converting disks is not the finish line. Your real goal is a new steady state:…
Convert Azure VMs from Unmanaged to Managed Disks: A Production-Ready Runbook
TL;DR Converting a VM to managed disks is usually operationally straightforward: deallocate, convert, start, validate. The…
VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 3: Day-0 to Day-2 Ownership Across Fleets, Instances, and Domains
TL;DR A) One fleet, one instance, stretched where justified In VCF 9.0, identity is not a…
VCF 9.0 GA Mental Model Part 2: Fleet Services vs Instance Management Planes (and Who Owns What)
TL;DR Practical implication: if fleet services are impaired, governance and workflows degrade, but the instance-level control…
CrowdStrike Named a Customers’ Choice in 2026 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for User Authentication
CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Protection — A Great Tool to Gain Visibility We remain committed to innovating…
How to Install and Use PostgreSQL 18 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
PostgreSQL (Postgres in short) is an open source, powerful, advanced, high-performance, and stable relational-document database system,…
VCF 9 Fleet Deployment Task Fails
October 13, 2025 VCF 9 Fleet Deployment Task Fails The Issue? As with any failed deployment,…
How to Upgrade to Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara”
Linux Mint 22.2 (“Zara”) is the latest point release in the Linux Mint 22 series, which…
Unlocking VMware Automation Power: One Python Script to Rule Them All
Learning Objectives VMware Repository on GitHub See how a single Python script can orchestrate inventory, lifecycle,…
Integrating PowerCLI with External APIs and Tools
Learning Objectives $message = @{text = “VM $vmName has been powered off via automation.”} | ConvertTo-Json…
Integrating PowerCLI with External APIs and Tools
Learning Objectives $vmName = “<your-vm-name>”$outputFile = “C:Tempsnap_status.txt”if status == “FAILED”:url = “https://<your-jira-server>/rest/api/2/issue/”auth = (‘<jira-username>’, ‘<jira-api-token>’)headers =…
Automating VM Lifecycle Actions and Snapshots with PowerCLI and Python
Learning Objectives # DisconnectDisconnect-VIServer -Server * -Confirm:$false Automate common VM lifecycle actions such as power on,…
How to Schedule a PowerCLI Script with Task Scheduler or cron
Introduction crontab -l Diagram: PowerCLI Scheduling Workflow Step 4: Use Credential Storage Securely Click OK, enter…
VMware Snapshot Management with PowerCLI: Detect, Report, and Clean Up
Introduction Get-VM | Where-Object {$_.PowerState -eq “PoweredOff”} | Get-Snapshot | Remove-Snapshot -Confirm:$false Diagram: Snapshot Lifecycle Workflow…
Building a Self-Healing Nutanix Environment with Ansible
Introduction Nutanix Repository on GitHub My Personal Repository on GitHub Self-healing infrastructure reduces downtime and manual…