how to recover a vsan cluster following a sudden outage with no vcenter access

how to detect when cloud-init/cloudbase-init run is complete and remove potentially unsafe data stored in VM custom properties via an Aria Orchestrator post-deployment workflow

I was so preoccupied with whether or not I could, I didn’t stop to think if I should… please don’t share this article with my boss.

sometimes you want to let the users choose how many NICs should be added to the newly deployed VM(s). it’s much easier to implement than you might think

one last roadblock to VCIX - despite eventually passing it, I am not happy about this exam for many reasons which I shall share in this review… plus some tips which should help others pass this annoying test