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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…
Before my first VMworld experience in 2017, I was completely overwhelmed with how to spend my time at the conference. With so many activities happening, how do you decide? Despite this being a virtual event yet again, I want to provide a framework for attendees to make the most out of this year’s conference. Regardless…
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…
I see an empty conference center where VMworld once sat. If you’ve never attended VMworld in person, it’s a completely overwhelming experience for the first time attendee. Now that it’s virtual and free to attend, it’s more accessible to us all. But it can still be overwhelming. I wanted to take a few minutes to…
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…
Have you ever had a fun idea for a project but didn’t quite know how to get from beginning to end? That’s exactly where I find myself while writing this post. All it takes is one idea to get the mental gears going. Let’s see if I can step through my idea without giving away…
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…