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PowerShell within CloudConfig – Disk Identification Formatting and Labelling

In a previous post I’d worked through a few issues with formatting and labelling disks with PowerShell and part of a CloudConfig element.  I had someone get in touch with a similar issue linked to how they could use PowerShell within CloudConfig to provide Disk Identification Formatting and Labelling, for disks being added across multiple […]

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PowerShell CloudConfig and vRealize Cloud Assembly

Adventures with PowerShell, CloudConfig and vRealize Cloud Assembly This week I had a customer with some errors trying to use the following componenets together: PowerShell, CloudConfig, and cloudbase-init within a Cloud Assembly blueprint.  To put it bluntly, the code was not running correctly.  The customer could run the code locally without any issue.  However, as […]

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VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event

VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event The VMware Tanzu Solution Engineering team is opening up to run a day of demos on April 27th VMware Tanzu brings a raft of new possibilities to the vSphere platform and beyond, providing capabilities and services to build and scale cloud applications anywhere. At the event attendees will learn […]

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Interrogating Public Police Data with open-source technology and serverless methods

Interrogating Public Police Data with open-source technology and serverless methods ##* Update, the dashboards are currently Offline (June 17th).  This was built as an educational tools and to demonstrate the art of the possible.  If you are interested in funding or rebuilding within your own cloud subscription please contact me*## I wrote previously about using […]

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Application Ontology

Application Ontology I’ve been thinking about the different services, policies and functions that support the delivery of applications to individual lines of business.  Many of the organisations seem to struggle with this more than anything else in moving toward cloud adoption.  As I’m often found saying “the technology can pretty much be made to do […]

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The impact of gravity on the Cloud

The impact of gravity on the cloud, what am I talking about now… Gravity is defined as “the force that attracts a body towards the centre of the earth”, that can be extrapolated onwards to state “or towards any other physical body having mass”.  It’s a force that has shape everything in our universe.  Which […]

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VMware EMPOWER – General Session Day One

Having worn both my fingers and my laptop battery down trying to keep up with the previous sessions in the day, I didn’t live blog the general session. In brief, lots of numbers about how well the various product streams within VMware are performing. However, in my opinion the session really started to ‘sparkle’ when […]

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Software Defined – How did we get here?

It’s widely acknowledged that to understand the present, and to try and predict the future you must know and understand the past. The current data centre landscape is a complex place.  Virtualisation of compute resources with VMware has been the de facto standard for over a decade. The move to software defined infrastructure has been […]

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