When I worked as an architect working with AWS I used event-driven automation with AWS Lambda to integrate distributed systems. This event-driven automation allowed me to put complex systems in place very simply. The VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) aims to facilitate event-driven automation based on vCenter Server …

VMware Cloud Foundation provides automated initial deployment and ongoing lifecycle management upgrades. Here I am exploring lifecycle management upgrades and exploring ways to make this as efficient as possible. Bundle Download The SDDC Manager appliance controls the Cloud Foundation deployment. To upgrade the …

There has been a lot of industry noise around Docker and VMware project Photon so these have been on the agenda to explore as well. I generally perform my little research projects running nested ESXi on VMware Fusion on my laptop, but VMware are offering £300 of free service credits for trialing vCloud Air OnDemand. …