A collection of nerdy things done in nerdy ways to break, fix, and learn technology
I recently learned VMware has an open source project for chaos engineering called Mangle, and I thought it would be fun to do a little exploring. After all, the name sounds pretty cool, and I know almost nothing about chaos engineering. So let’s create a little chaos, shall we? This will be the first in…
While some people may wake up each morning based on circadian rhythm alone, many of us require an alarm to wake up on time. What does the alarm clock (or alarm app) really do for you? It allows you to set a specific time at which a loud noise will happen. The noise does not…
Picture yourself in front of a rack of VxRail appliances. Ah, the bright shine of freshly racked and cabled new gear! The network team has VLANs ready. The operations team has picked out naming conventions for host names and virtual machines. Storage capacity will be more than enough to support growth efforts for the next…
Originally posted on MangoLassi April 17, 2017 Just yesterday, VMware released a patch to vCenter that enables functionality supporting vSAN 6.6. This patch is build 5310538 and version 6.5.0d of the vCenter Server Appliance. If you are chomping at the bit to play with all the new features of vSAN 6.6, applying this update is…