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VVD tools series: VVD poster

Forbes Guthrie — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:11:45 +0000

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 Johnson (twitter/blog) is the creator of this awesome Validated Design resources. It is probably the quickest way to understand how the VVD components […]

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VVD tools series: VVD documents

Forbes Guthrie — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 19:17:13 +0000

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 useful the VVD published documents themselves are, even if you don’t intend to fully deploy a VVD […]

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VVD tools series: Firewall port spreadsheet

Forbes Guthrie — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 16:59:49 +0000

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 protocols used by the products in the latest VVD release (3.0). Much of this information is scattered around in different KBs and internal threads, but our Professional Services team pulled […]

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VVD tools series: Intro and Certgen Tool

Forbes Guthrie — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 15:39:23 +0000

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 at VMware working on the VVDs). For anyone that isn’t familiar with the VVDs, they are VMware’s blueprints for a “Build Your Own” datacenter. […]

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My Design Session at VMworld 2016

Forbes Guthrie — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 19:09:45 +0000

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 discussed Infrastructure Design with a holistic approach across the datacenter. This year is a little different, as […]

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Mac OS X application installation automation

Forbes Guthrie — Thu, 05 May 2016 15:07:45 +0000

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 respectively, and why they’re so useful when it comes to setting a new Apple Mac. This week I started a new job at […]

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A simple markdown editor that’s actually rather good

Forbes Guthrie — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 21:39:08 +0000

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’s the rub For those of you who are markdown aficionados, you probably follow a similar search for the ultimate markdown editor […]

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The intermission bell is now ringing

Forbes Guthrie — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 18:50:35 +0000

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 for) some ultra trail running events, and generally been busy with life – unfortunately, as a result, I let my blog posting suffer. Anyway, […]

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VMworld 2014

Forbes Guthrie — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 21:11:48 +0000

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 VMworld US conference. Every year I get a different perspective. Obviously the technologies and products change […]

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Deploy CoreOS into your ESXi lab

Forbes Guthrie — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 16:43:29 +0000

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 post I’ll describe the CoreOS building blocks and show how to deploy an instance into your vSphere environment. What the heck is […]

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