Tony

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Apr 24

VMware Horizon Workspace Initial Setup

While building a demo environment of VMware Horizon Workspace for EMC World 2013 I found that if you want to use a domain administrative or service account for connecting Workspace to the vCenter (this is needed so that workspace can monitor its own VM’s health) you will need to negate the ‘\’ for the domain. …

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Feb 18

4 Months & Going Strong

I can’t believe its been a little over 4 months since I started at VCE as a Solution Engineer in VCE’s Corporate Engineering branch.  Now that I have my bearings with my new job I figure that my readers might like an update about what I’m doing. I know I’ve been pretty quite on my …

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Nov 11

Veterans Day Flag Retirement Ceremony

Every year for the last 15 years I’ve returned to my home town on Veterans Day to celebrate the Veterans in my home town and everywhere throughout the world. For the last 12 years part of the ceremonies in my home town have included a flag retirement program that I wrote. This is a merging …

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Sep 28

So Long and Thanks For All The Fish

For those who are familiar with the movie Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy you will know that “So Long & Thanks For All the Fish” is the opening song for the movie. This line also has a significant role in the books by Douglas Adams. In the movie the dolphins tried to communicate the impending destruction …

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Sep 09

Redacted Presentation

Here are the slides for my VMworld Community Presentation powered by vBrownbag on VDP. The reason its called redacted is because until VMworld came out I was not able to publicly talk about VDP and so all of the posts on twitter and other social media sites always used redacted as my reference to this new technology. …

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Aug 08

VMworld Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

If you have attend VMworld in the past you have no doubt seen all the contests and opportunities to win this or that if they let you scan your name badge. If you haven’t attended please let the previous statement serve as warning or an invitation for you. [notice]These tips are not guaranteed to help you win. They are …

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Jul 27

Funny ways to explain things… Part II (VMware)

My first blog post on how to explain technical things to non-technical people I talked about how I explain storage concepts surrounding EqualLogic and VMware. (https://www.wondernerd.net/funny-ways-to-explain-things/) In today’s post I’m going to share some on how I explain Virtualization concepts to non-techies. Before we get started I hope this series of posts doesn’t qualify me …

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Jul 23

Funny ways to explain things…

Since I do tech support, installation, and some pre-sales where I currently work I have to come up with interesting ways to explain different aspects of technology in non-technical terms. Most of these revolve around Dell/EqualLogic storage. They may help you they may not. You may even find them funny. If they’re helpful feel free …

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Jul 10

Configuring vSwitches From an SSH Session on an ESXi Host

Most of the time I work with SMB sized customers. Most of them don’t want or need to know the ends and outs of their vSwitch configuration (or much of the underlying configuration at all) because they don’t intend on needing to change it. If they want to modify something they will send in a …

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Jun 26

The wheels on Willy Wonka’s bus go round and crossways…

While driving  back to my hotel this evening from a clients site I had an interesting thought… Now I wonder how it can be applied to virtualization and storage… Here’s the thought: I grew up in a little town in Kansas and I knew all the back roads and roads that didn’t exist and all …

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