Larry Smith Jr.

Exploring and sharing practical insights on virtualization, cloud technologies, automation, and DevOps. My mission is to empower others to build, automate, and innovate with confidence.

Everything Should Be Virtual - Virtualization, Automation, Infrastructure

IPTables Cluster Script

September 26, 2014 2 minute read

I have been working on some interesting virtualized networking setups (More on this in another post soon) and needed a way to configure IPTables rules on all...

vCenter 5.5U2 Upgrade on VCSA

September 11, 2014 1 minute read

So I decided to upgrade my vCenter 5.5U1 VCSA to the latest vCenter 5.5U2 release yesterday and it has been a complete disaster at this point. vCenter contin...

VMworld 2014 - It is TIME!!!

August 22, 2014 less than 1 minute read

The time has finally come for VMworld 2014 - US in San Francisco. I know I am very excited this year as well I am sure everyone else (20k+) is as well. I am ...

VMware NSX WebUI Sync Issue

August 14, 2014 1 minute read

So I recently had an issue when trying to create some new tenant networks and had a very strange issue. When creating the Logical Switches within NSX I was r...

vSphere - Enable SSH using PowerCLI

July 28, 2014 1 minute read

In case you have the need to enable SSH, set SSH service to start on boot and also set the firewall rule to allow ALL IPs you can use the following PowerCLI ...