The writing
Standalone explainers on virtualization, automation and infrastructure.
Featured Walkthroughs
A practical walkthrough of a vSAN management migration: preserve host membership, prepare networking and encryption, move hosts in controlled steps, and prove the cluster is healthy afterward.
Architecture
How to design VCF 9 storage around policy promises: FTT, RAID layout, capacity overhead, rebuild behavior, and workload requirements.
Explainers
A practical ESXi troubleshooting guide covering common host, network, storage, management, and performance faults, with esxcli commands to identify the failing layer before making a change.
Explainers
A practical guide to vSAN storage policies in VMware Cloud Foundation: what each setting means, how objects land on hosts, and how much capacity common policies consume.
Explainers
A practical introduction to esxtop: how to read CPU, memory, storage and network pressure on an ESXi host, and the views worth using during a real incident.
Troubleshooting
A production cluster ground to a halt during what should have been a routine host reboot. Here's how to read vSAN resync behavior, what actually causes resync storms, and the knobs that matter.
Home Lab
The real test of infrastructure-as-code isn't whether apply works — it's whether destroy does. How I structure Terraform for vSphere so entire lab environments are disposable.
Automation
Provisioning scripts are easy. Provisioning scripts that handle vCenter quirks, half-failed deployments and auditors are not. These are the PowerCLI patterns I keep reusing.
Walkthroughs
Lifecycle Manager makes upgrades look like one button. The work is everything around the button — driver validation, boot device health, and knowing your rollback story before you need it.
Architecture
Most NSX microsegmentation projects stall because they start with 'segment everything'. Notes on a phased model that shipped — scope, rule design, and the org problems that matter more than the technical ones.
