Recently I did an upgrade of a Citrix environment to 7.15. Citrix has provided a very well documented Upgrade Deployment guide and the steps to follow here. There are a number of pre-checks that you should do before upgrading the environment. Some of those things are taking backups of the database, snapshots of the virtual …
Unregister vCenter Server from SSO
I was helping someone bring up a vSphere 6.7 environment inside a vSphere 6.5 SSO domain for a project and the install went without a hitch. We installed the VCSA with embedded PSC and connected it to an existing SSO domain. This new vSphere was going to be used for a new VDI implementation. After …
AWS Summit in Chicago
What is AWS Summit Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosts a week long conference once a year that's at the tail end of the year and it's called AWS re:Invent. Last year 50,000 attendees flocked to Los Vegas, where re:Invent was being hosted, to find out the latest and greatest offerings from AWS. Not everyone is …
Citrix AppLayering: vNIC goes offline
I ran into an issue that I want to share with Citrix AppLayering (Unidesk). I'm not sure if it was me, or if others have had the same issue. My original issue was when I created an image from the ELM and pushed it to Citrix Provisioning Services. PVS would start the VM, the OS …
AWS – Developer Associate Overview
I recently passed the AWS Developer Associate certification. I wanted to pass along my knowledge as well as all the other resources I used during my studies. The best thing is to obviously use the products and services by creating yourself an account and dig right in. This has been my second AWS certification, the …
Giving back to the vCommunity
I was awarded the vExpert Program in early March 2018. This was a goal I set out to achieve last year. One of the of many actions I did over the last year to earn the achievement was starting up a blog. It's a way for me to give back to the vCommunity. Now is …
Impostor Syndrome
"I'm good enough. I'm smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me." I feel like I've had to say this to myself more often. The impostor syndrome has been hitting hard lately. Watching social media, I think it's been hitting others in the industry as well. I thought it would be a good topic …
What are your New Year’s Resolutions?
I don't know about you, but I like setting New Year's resolutions. I like setting goals for myself and reflecting back on how I did on those goals. Not all goals can be accomplished, but looking back and knowing that at least I accomplished something through the year proves to me that I can keep …
Change Can Be Good
I haven't written anything in almost twenty days. I'm finding writing is almost therapeutic. It's a way for me to sit down, focus, and organize my thoughts, both technical thoughts and random opinions. Over these last three weeks I've had a lot of different thoughts go through my head. I started a new job this …
How to create WordPress in AWS
I've enjoyed the self challenge of creating a blog a week, especially for Blogtober. This will be my fifth blog. If you don't know what Blogtober is, it's a community driven challenge to produce five articles in the month of October. I've struggled with this last one. I don't know if it's the extra added …
