It’s a Sunday morning at 8:30am and I’m here journaling my current status because the incredible rain storm in California has woken me up. My anxiety about our world has heightened my feelings about how we are living through our current times. What the hell are you philosophizing about now, woman? Several people I personally …
Automating VM Migration AND their Firewall rules to VMC
vRNI Notes – Moving a group of App VMs + Associated FW Rules from VMC to VMC A few months ago, my colleague Tom Zukowski demo’ed the vRealize Network Insight and HCX Fling to a group of internal employees and he mentioned there was an ability to also export the existing firewall rules associated with …
Reminiscing about the Dog Years
Who remembers their dog years? Is that even a thing anymore? I remember the day when I decided I wanted to go into IT. It’s not noted in my LinkedIn profile because you only list the current work history that is relevant to your industry but before IT, I was a sales person for a …
Moving beyond just technical
You ever notice that some of your coworkers in IT seem to always get the plum projects? Or they get to say “No” to their/your boss without worrying about repercussions? What about how other colleagues always seem to help them out first? It’s like a race and you’re always behind. It seems so unfair. Your …
Transitioning from IT to SE
My transition into my current role brought me reminiscing about how I moved into a pre-sales role at VMware to begin with nearly 5 1/2 years ago. So I’m gonna write about it cause it was a blast! In case it’s not obvious, I highly recommend it if you’ve been curious. Look, the truth is …
New Job, New Challenges
Nearly two years into this pandemic and life has continued to move forward despite every day being groundhog day. I have officially left Sales after 5 1/2 years. I have LOVED every minute of it. Even the ugly bits. I’m happy to say that I have decided to stay at VMware and it’s really because …
HCX Reference Links
HCX is key to many use cases with VMware technology today. For me, I use it constantly with VMware Cloud on AWS to assist customers and partners with moving workloads up to the cloud. However, it is also a great service to use when you need to move workloads from one datacenter to another. Well, …
VMC – Moving from VPN to DX and reconfiguring HCX Service Mesh
Much of my job entails post sales support, design, re-design, deployment, and rearchitecting of the VMC solution so I have to answer many questions related to the growth and expansion of customer uses of VMC. Recently, a customer needed some guidance when it came to taking their use of VMware Cloud on AWS to the …
VMware Cloud on AWS Reference Links
It struck me that for those of you that are either exploring VMware Cloud on AWS (from here on out referred to as VMC) or currently using it, you may want a list of references for where to find information. Having done this for a few years now, I figured I could share my collection …
Levity as we Extinguish the Dumpster Fire called 2020
And so we come to the end of 2020. 2020 was such a round and even numbered year that you would hope it held good fortune for all. Burn all the fortune cookies that had that in them! Voo doo sacrifice them for a better 2021 and do a rain dance while you’re at it. …