A new start for us all illustrated by a timelapse of the sun rising over Mt. Fuji. Captured from Gotemba the 26th of December 2022.

Note: This blog post is part of the 2022 edition of the vExpert Japan Advent Calendar series for the 9th of December. Migration from an on-premises environment to VMware Cloud on AWS can be done i...

11月29日日本VMUG（VMware User Group）ミーティングでプレゼンしました。タイトルは：”塩漬け OS を如何に保護するか、VMware Cloud on AWS の仮想マシンのセキュリティを高めるには – Jonas Werner”でした。録画は以下になります。 他のセッションもいっぱいありました。もし興味ありましたらそこのレコーディングもご覧ください：https:...

Exporting the details from a vSphere installation can be extremely useful prior to a migration to VMware Cloud on AWS. Alternatively it can be a useful way to gather a point-in-time snapshot of a V...

Starting / stopping of a vSphere environment over SSH can be a quick and easy way to manage a lab or test environment which needs to be powered off most of the time but used sometimes for testing. ...

Deploying HCX (VMware Hybrid Cloud Extensions) is considered to be complex and difficult by most. It doesn’t help that it’s usually one of those things you’d only do once so it doesn’t pay to spend...

There are many cool custom keyboard builds and I wanted to give it a go. This will document the process, parts and steps. Part list Some parts can be purchased and some are 3D printed. I printe...

Quick (?) steps for connecting a Mikrotik router in an on-premises lab or DC to an AWS VPC using a VPN. All commands done over AWS CLI and Mikrotik CLI. Note: The values for tunnel IP addresses an...

When migrating from an on-premises DC to VMware Cloud on AWS it is usually recommended to use Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX) from VMware. However, in some cases the IT team managing the on-prem DC is...

With CentOS being less than attractive to use now when Red Hat has changed how it is updated, the Amazon AMI2 Linux distribution can be an excellent alternative. However, when deploying an Amazon ...