My name is Will Hochradel, and I have been working in the technology field for over 20 years. I started Falling Through the Clouds as a personal blog aimed at providing answers to the things that go missing or fall through the cracks.
vRealize Automation 8.11.1 was recently released, bringing new features and improvements to the platform. Among the most notable enhancements are the SaltStack Day2 Action Enhancements, the support for Terraform 1.0, …
In vRealize Automation, secrets are how we store encrypted values. Let’s say we want to store a password that we can reference in a cloud template for joining a domain, …
The other day, I received an email from VMware Cloud Services about my Cloud Proxy being down or unresponsive. Sure enough, although things would boot up, it wasn't connecting …
Custom hostnaming is something we have all dealt with in our careers. Maybe you have a 50-page document that lays out the standards for a custom hostname structure, or perhaps …
Image mappings are how we map a named image like ‘RedHat 8’ to the images in vCenter, whether from Content Library or VM templates, AWS AMIs etc. This allows us …
Storage profiles allow us the ability to group together configurable storage parameters and apply them to one or many storage solutions. In vSphere-based environments, we can use storage profiles to …