A short post this time, but a goodie. Probably apt, because like the poster itself it doesn’t need much explaining, and that’s why it’s so valuable. Our Technical Marketing ace, Mr Ryan Joh...
http://www.vreference.com/2017/02/21/vvd-tools-series-vvd-poster/
Next in the VVD tools series is one that you might consider cheating, but I want to include as it may be non-obvious for folks not familiar with the VVDs. Ergo a short post to explain how super u...
http://www.vreference.com/2016/12/29/vvd-tools-series-vvd-documents/
Ports and protocols spreadsheet Following on from the CertGen tool post, here’s a look at another indispensable SDDC tool. This time it’s a spreadsheet which details the ports and protocol...
http://www.vreference.com/2016/12/22/vvd-tool-series-firewall-port-spreadsheet/
Introduction I’m publishing a series of short blog posts covering some of the great tools available from the VMware Validated Design (VVD) program (disclaimer: these days I’m one of the team ...
http://www.vreference.com/2016/12/20/vvd-tool-series-intro-and-certgen-tool/
Next week is VMworld 2016 (US) and I wanted to put the word out that I’ll be presenting again this year. In previous years I’ve had the honour to share the stage with Mr Scott Lowe, as we dis...
http://www.vreference.com/2016/08/25/my-design-session-at-vmworld-2016/
Mac OS X “application installation automation” – now say that 3 times quickly! This is a post about Homebrew and Cask, two package management projects for OS X CLI and GUI applications resp...
http://www.vreference.com/2016/05/05/mac-os-x-application-installation-automation/
A short blog (actually started as tweet but I couldn’t do it justice in 140 characters) to let you know about a new markdown editor that caught my attention this week called Abricotine. Here’...
http://www.vreference.com/2016/03/01/a-simple-markdown-editor-thats-actually-rather-good/
After quite the extended hiatus, I’m back on the blogging train. Over the last 18 months, I’ve been super occupied at Coho Data as their Technical Product Manager, participated (and trained f...
http://www.vreference.com/2016/02/18/the-intermission-bell-is-now-ringing/
It’s a popular thing to do at this time of year so I thought I’d grab your attention for a few minutes and tell you why I’m super excited for VMworld this year. This year will be my sixth V...
I’ve being reading about, poking, prodding and playing with CoreOS recently and thought it would good to document how to build a very basic clustered CoreOS setup in your lab. In this first p...
http://www.vreference.com/2014/06/09/deploy-coreos-into-your-esxi-lab/