So, I really do work stuff, along with all the tinkering lately. That’s the problem with new gadgets!
I’ve been gearing up on the vSphere 5 courses from VMware, and I gotta say, you should take these. Even if it’s just the 2-day What’s New course for you VMware gurus. What’s New is the condensed “look at all the cool new stuff” class that gets you some hands on time with the new knobs and dials as well as gets you some good discussion time. The new Install, Configure, Manage class is no slouch, but we’re gently massaging it to work better for most that will likely be taking it.
Add to that the fact that I’m working on a post (more back-burner) about my take on why customers should think about the cloud. And I’m tossing around a post about automation, and why. Not so much how, but why.
On the front burner, however, I’m in the process of working through the new Auto Deploy feature of vSphere 5, specifically the integration of Auto Deploy and its related components into the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA). Everything’s baked in, so I’m doing a “what to edit and how to make it work” post. I’m having just a touch of difficulty I think due to the wacky nature of my lab (should be taken care of soon enough, I hope), but the framework is there.
Oh, and add to that my DSL modem gave up the ghost. I’d say it let out all its magic smoke (you know, the magic smoke that all electronics run on – when the smoke escapes, the electronics don’t work anymore!), but there was no puff of smoke. It just stopped. I looked up and there were no lights. No biggie, I’ve got a U-Verse installation scheduled already to replace the DSL with a fatter pipe, and my cable modem is still the primary pipe. It just means that my next class won’t have any network redundancy if something goes wrong.
So that’s what’s going on. Blog breaking, DSL dying, vCSA tinkering fun. Stay tuned for more goodness!
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