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

Exciting news about HP Storvirtual VSA for SMB

November 14, 2013 less than 1 minute read

Here is some very exciting news in regards to the HP Storvirtual VSA. A no cost option is available as a package when purchasing HP Proliant Gen8 Servers. T...

Build vSAN vSphere Lab using PowerCLI

November 5, 2013 4 minute read

Here is my first contribution as far as any PowerCLI scripts go. I am myself just learning finally so I will share with everyone as I am learning. Obviously ...

Getting Started with vSAN in vSphere 5.5

November 4, 2013 2 minute read

As you may or may not know VMware announced the new vSAN with vSphere 5.5. vSAN is currently in public beta but it is very easy to get started testing it out...

vSphere 5.5 Storage Profiles Are Now Storage Policies

October 28, 2013 4 minute read

I had previously used storage profiles in previous versions of vSphere and went digging for them again after getting my new vSphere 5.5 environment running a...

vSphere 5.5 Host Upgrade using vSphere Update Manager (VUM)

October 24, 2013 2 minute read

I am currently going through and upgrading all of my lab environment components to vSphere 5.5 so I figured I would capture a few things as I have been going...