This past Wednesday, September 7th 2011, Austin had its first vBeers. I was surprised at the turnout and the number of new folks I met. A good portion of the Dell Tech Center crew was there, as well as folks from Dell in general, Home Depot, VMware, and Quest, to name a few. Everyone was […]
Archives for 2011
Austin’s first vBeers! #vBeersATX #vBeers
Love VMware or virtualization in general? Love beer? Then let’s combine them! Join us for the first in a series of Austin Texas vBeers at Opal Divine’s Marina, in front of Fry’s at Mopac/1325 and Parmer. Any and all are invited, all you need is your winning smile and a love for good virtualization conversations […]
vSphere 5 swap to host cache: forcing & reporting
Quick & dirty post: If you ever need to demonstrate ESXi 5’s new swapping to host cache feature, I’ve found the easiest way to do that is to create two VMs that over-commit the host memory (and have very little disk allotted). You can power on the VMs, open up each VM’s console and boot […]
Guest Presenter on VCAP-DCA Brownbag
Recently, Cody Bunch asked me if I was interested in being a guest on a VCAP-DCA BrownBag on ProfessionalVMware.com. The BrownBag webinar is an innovative, community driven opportunity to get together with like-minded folks to learn about a number of VMware and VMware certification topics. I had the pleasure of being the guest presenter on […]
Quick tip: PowerShell here-strings don’t like whitespace
Today I was writing a bit of raw XML to be used as a SOAP message. Being a person who enjoys writing easy to read code, I declared my variable using here-string notation, pasted in the appropriate XML between the @” and “@, making sure to indent everything along the way including the last “@. […]