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VMUG Norway session - REST APIs for the VMware Admin

Jun 7, 2019 (Last modified: Jun 7, 2019)vmug performance monitoring api ·

This week I have been on a 'VMUG Tour' visiting the Norwegian VMUG branches in Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim. Lots of fun was had and it was nice to meet other members of the community

VMUG Tour

May 27, 2019 (Last modified: May 27, 2019)vmug vsphere monitoring ·

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Next week I'll set out on a 'VMUG tour' where I'll attend and speak at both the Trondheim, Bergen and Oslo branches of VMUG Norway

HPE Oneview Global Dashboard Powershell Module

Apr 23, 2019 (Last modified: Jan 4, 2021)module oneview globaldashboard ·

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Recently I've worked a bit with the HPE OneView Global Dashboard. I was surprised to see that HPE hadn't created a Powershell Module for it so I decided to create one my self

vSphere Performance - Visualizing data around the world with the Grafana Worldmap panel

Apr 16, 2019 (Last modified: Apr 16, 2019)grafana powercli powershell stats vcenter influxdb ·

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We're always looking out for new ways to visualize our performance data. Most often to aid our troubleshooting, but sometimes most for fun. This is one of those times. Let's check out how we can visualize our compute usage across the world!

Monitoring url endpoints with Grafana, Azure and more

Apr 5, 2019 (Last modified: Apr 5, 2019)grafana ping blog netlify ·

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After moving my blog to the Hugo platform hosted on Netlify I lost the uptime monitoring I had through Jetpack on Wordpress. As I've worked quite a bit with Grafana I knew about their Worldping service, but I haven't had any real need to test it before now. Now I had the perfect reason for checking it out.

Moving to Hugo

Apr 1, 2019 (Last modified: Apr 1, 2019)hugo netlify blog ·

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Last weekend I completed the preparations for moving this blog from Wordpress to Hugo. I have been considering this a few times, but never really had the time or energy to go the full length. Until now..

iLO Amplifier finally connected to InfoSight

Mar 27, 2019 (Last modified: Mar 31, 2019)ilo amplifier infosight ·

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HPE launched their InfoSight for servers back in January and as we have been using InfoSight for both Nimble and lately for our 3PAR systems we wanted to bring our compute into the mix as well

Second time vExpert

Mar 27, 2019 (Last modified: Apr 1, 2019)vexpert ·

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A couple of weeks ago I got the exciting news that I was accepted as a VMware vExpert for the second time. This award is a huge achievement for me and I'm humbled to be included in a community with so many top individuals, many of which I have learned so much from over many years

PXE boot and install ESXi 6.7 U1 - remember to use correct boot files

Feb 12, 2019 (Last modified: Mar 31, 2019)pxe upgrade deployment ·

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This is a short revisit of an earlier blog post on automating ESXi installation through PXE booting and Kickstart scripts

It's a pass - Thoughts on the VCAP DCV deploy exam

Jan 21, 2019 (Last modified: Mar 31, 2019)certification vcap vsphere ·

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Late last week I finally got my results from the VCAP DCV deploy exam which I sat mid-December. I was of course extremely pleased to learn I had passed the exam. In this post I will share some of my thoughts on the exam.