A collection of nerdy things done in nerdy ways to break, fix, and learn technology
Deep inside VMware’s Office of the CTO (or OCTO as we lovingly call it) lies an innovation engine, a secret weapon you might not realize exists. It’s called xLabs, a team of brilliant minds working on new innovations for customers, partners, and employees that are 1-3 years ahead of roadmap (now part of VMware AI…
You have likely heard the news that VMworld 2022 is now VMware Explore 2022. That’s 6 different events across the word that kick off with VMware Explore US in late August 2022 followed by events in Brazil (October), Europe, Singapore, Japan, and China (all in November). Regardless of your feeling about the change, consider this…
VMware’s Knowledge Base site is a powerful search engine for finding information, but the way you choose to use it is important. A general search is one thing, but what if you could keep track of changes to knowledge base articles and get notified when new ones are created based on a specific product area…
This is part 7 of my quest to explore Azure Functions for self-education in functions-as-a-service. The goal of this post is to successfully instrument an Azure function for OpenTracing to visualize the function call inside Tanzu Observability (AKA Wavefront). Back in part 1, we explored Azure Functions and Function Apps via the Azure portal. In part 2 we…
This is part 6 of my quest to explore Azure Functions for self-education in functions-as-a-service. The goal of this post is to successfully integrate VMware’s Tanzu Observability (AKA Wavefront) with Azure and explore the additional insights gained for our Azure Function environment. Back in part 1, we explored Azure Functions and Function Apps via the Azure…
Several months ago I started building a guide to using VMware documentation that was first a single blog post, launched into a blog series, and then morphed into a presentation at the Boston VMUG UserCon in September 2019. I realized while preparing that there was a better way to organize the content and a number…
In my last post, we explored Building Custom Search Engines for VMware content in Google Chrome. If we can be VMware documentation search ninjas in Chrome, I thought it would be fun to explore the same idea using Firefox. Maybe the process will be similar. We’re about to learn the answer. I’ll start by mentioning…
In my previous post in the VMware documentation series, I explored the VMware knowledge base site and some of the unexpected functionalities it brings if you pay close attention. I would encourage going back to read that post before continuing here as I believe it will give you a better foundation for what we’re about…
I didn’t realize when I wrote this blog on navigating VMware documentation that it would turn into a series, but it happened. You can find part 2 of the series on customizing VMware documentation here. In this installment (part 3), we will look at an adjacent area. It’s something that was mentioned in one of…
In my last post, I gave advice on using VMware documentation like a pro. But in this post, let’s take that one step further to expert level. There’s something amazing about the VMware documentation site that people may not have explored. From the VMware Docs home page, there’s an option to build custom docs. Let’s click…