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.
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 …
Network profiles allow us to group networks and their configurations together and control how they are consumed. Without network profiles, each cloud template would need to configure the specifics of …
SaltStack Config is a tool that allows you to manage machine configurations, by installing and monitoring drift of the required software for a given machine. Whether using it to install …
Upgrading vRealize Automation has been made a reasonably less painless activity since version 8 bringing in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. Versions 6 and 7 of vRealize Automation were more cumbersome …
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.