The smallest version of your company is the one worth planning for
The minimum viable company is the smallest set of services, people and systems that keep you trading while everything else is rebuilt.
Welcome to the technical blog of Sam Perrin.
Latest posts
Why Simplification could bring Business Value
This post explores why a simplification in licensing and a bundling of products could help bring more opportunities to show improved business value.
On-demand Networking with Aria Automation and NSX
Aria Automation provides the capability to deploy on-demand network objects when combined with NSX-T, this blog post runs through the on-demand networking options available. I am not heading to VMware Explore this year but I thought I would have a browse through the sessions to build out an agenda as if I was there!
VMware Explore 2023 Session Agenda
I am not heading to VMware Explore this year but I thought I would have a browse through the sessions to build out an agenda as if I was there!
Aria Automation Startup Troubleshooting
Recently I experienced some issues bringing up an older version or vRealize/Aria Automation, this post looks at the steps to bring the appliance back online.
Monitor Cloud Extensibility Proxy embeded Aria Automation Orchestrator (vRealize Orchestrator) with Aria Operations Cloud (vRealize Operations Cloud)
This blog post covers the process of creating an OAuth App within VMware Cloud Services for Cloud Extensibility Proxies that will allow you to monitor vRO (Aria Automation Orchestrator) via Aria Operations Cloud
Exploring Aria Hub Search and GraphQL
In this post, we will learn how to search within Aria Hub and query our inventory using GraphQL and Altair. We will cover search examples and the use of operators, comparison functions, and property names and values. We will also discuss using Aria Graph and Altair for advanced GraphQL queries.
Getting started with Aria Hub Free Tier
A short article covering the setup of a new account with Aria Hub Free Tier and basics of exploring our discovered Inventory
vRA/AA - Windows Cloudbase-init - Function Update
An updated example of Cloudbase-init that uses multi-part user data to run cloud-config and PowerShell code that uses functions for some deployment guarantees
VMware Cloud Foundation - PowerShell Reporting Module
A short post to highlight the PowerShell module for running reports on your VMware Cloud Foundation environment
vRA - Windows Cloudbase-init - Multi-part User Data Example
An example of Cloudbase-init that uses multi-part user data to run cloud-config and PowerShell code
Tanzu Community Edition - Azure Cluster
This post runs through the deployment of Tanzu Community Edition onto Azure - we will look at creating a Management Cluster, a Workload Cluster and the deployment of a demo application.