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Every Foundation Needs a Home: My VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0.1 Home Lab Build

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on November 10, 2025November 10, 2025

If you are interested in why it has been so long since my last post,…

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Dear (Hack) Tech Pundits: Please Stop Saying “Containerizing Workloads is a VMware Replacement”

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on March 28, 2024June 13, 2024

Miss me? I’m mainlining bourbon for this one, which means that by the time I…

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See You at VMware Explore 2023

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on August 14, 2023August 13, 2023

I forgot to tell you all, dear readers, that I will be heading to VMware…

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A Treatise on Resolving Complex Outages: Engineer for the Unknown Unknowns

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on July 11, 2023July 10, 2023

I’m not a perfect Engineer, but I’ve been around the block a few times .…

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One Year Later: How Sales Engineering Started vs. How It’s Going

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on June 28, 2023

It’s been a bit. The reasons for that are a bit dark, but I feel…

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The DevOps Skills Gap: (Re)defining the Role of the Infrastructure Engineer for the Modern Cloud

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on February 21, 2023February 22, 2023

My goal at the end of this post is to give Infrastructure Engineers a call…

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  • Bryan's Take
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The VMware Cloud Professional Multi-cloud (VCP-VMC) Certification: Better Know Your Networking

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on January 24, 2023January 26, 2023

I recently passed the still-shiny VMware VCP-VMC Exam. As a VMware employee, I got to…

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Posts Coming in 2023

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on January 5, 2023January 4, 2023

In no particular order, and with working titles, here are some planned future posts in…

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My Accidental Journey Into Biohacking

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on January 3, 2023January 3, 2023

Happy New Year 2023! Here, I am documenting my 4 month “Fitness Journey” that I…

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Happy Holidays 2022!

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on December 26, 2022

Here’s a short “I am still here” post letting you know this blog is still…

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Crush or Crash: The Possible Fates of MuskTwitter, Its Distributed Systems, and a Commentary on Freedom of Speech

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on November 21, 2022November 21, 2022

I launched this site just north of two and a half years ago. And in…

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Guidelines For Digital Transformation Part 2: Transform and Roll Out

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on October 17, 2022October 16, 2022

Part 1 was about changing your company’s culture, and therefore setting the stage for your…

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SE Journey Podcast Appearance

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on August 17, 2022

I joined the great Zane Allen and Chris Sprague on their SE Journey Podcast as…

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Guidelines For Digital Transformation Part 1: It’s the Culture, Stupid

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on August 15, 2022August 17, 2022

I work in what we call the “Commercial” Market, which has an amorphous and liberal…

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Making the Transition to Sales Engineer Part 2: What to Expect in Your First Two Months

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on July 19, 2022July 17, 2022

Welcome to Part 2 of my 2-part series, Making the Transition to Sales Engineer. In…

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On Building Your Brand

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on July 1, 2022July 1, 2022

I am going to come out swinging on this one because I can sense your…

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Making the Transition to Sales Engineer Part 1: Started From the Bottom Now We’re Here

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on June 27, 2022

It’s official I guess. I am posting again after a self imposed, “I have no…

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  • Bryan's Take
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Corporate IT Acquisitions Part 2: The (Sort Of) Touchy-Feely Version

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on June 13, 2022June 13, 2022

I did not plan on making a Part 2 to Corporate IT Acquisitions: A Survival…

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Corporate IT Acquisitions: A Survival Guide

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on June 7, 2022June 7, 2022

As a freshly-minted VMware employee who has been there just over a month, you might…

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  • Bryan's Take
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Some Developments . . .

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on April 22, 2022

The Mothership called, and I was compelled to answer: I start my new job at…

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Securing Your vSphere Environment from Ransomware Part 3 of 3: Rubber Meets Road

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on March 26, 2022

I am hoping that you have recovered from the scare I gave you in Part…

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AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam: The Experience

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on February 27, 2022

Who has two thumbs and passed the AWS Cloud Practioner Exam? It was a nerve-racking…

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  • Bryan's Take
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vSphere Cluster Service: My Crisis of Confidence

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on February 17, 2022February 17, 2022

When I was a wee VMware Engineer (let’s say it was the year . .…

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Securing Your vSphere Environment from Ransomware Part 2: Rubber Meets Road

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on January 31, 2022

In Part 1, I may have scared the crap out of you introduced protecting your…

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  • automation
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Securing Your vSphere Environment from Ransomware Part 1: It’s Worse Than You Think

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on January 6, 2022

TL;DR – Jump down to the Action Items: Where to Start section. I am averse…

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Happy Holidays . . . and . . . Why You Should Never Be a Fanboi/gurl of Anything Ever

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on December 16, 2021

This is the last post before Christmas, so Happy Holidays! Quick: Name something that you…

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Building Kubernetes-enabled Tower/AWX Execution Environments Using AWX-EE and ansible-builder

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on December 7, 2021

Disclaimer: this post is a bit more on the intermediate/advanced side, but you can always…

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  • AWS
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A Rant About Bad Blogging and A (Former) Paper Tiger’s Advice on Passing IT Exams

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on November 15, 2021

TL;DR If you’re just looking for the “Studying Exams” part, skip down to, “And Now,…

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Your Friendly TOC Blogger Gets Real: Did You Spot My Master Plan?

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on October 30, 2021

Have an open mind on this one . . . this post may not be…

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  • Containerization
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I’m a Contributor Now: What I Learned from My First Public GitHub Pull Request (and What You Can Do With It)

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on October 20, 2021October 19, 2021

I’ve made it. I can now say I have done a PR on github on…

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  • Cloud
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Why VMware Engineers Tell You to Right-size Your VMs: Becau$e Co-$top Will Co$t You Money

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on October 6, 2021October 7, 2021

A Scenario: Ever wonder why we VMware Engineers always try to explain to you why,…

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  • Bryan's Take
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A Plethora of Questions: The Value of Reverse Engineering (and a Primer)

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on September 7, 2021September 5, 2021

This post has everything: Borg Assimilation Cubes, no less than 2 Alec Baldwin movie references,…

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  • TOC Updates
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TOC Update: For the Shareholders!

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on June 9, 2021

I will come right out and say it: I am taking a break for two…

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A Primer on Migrations with Zerto and Inspecting the Zerto REST API

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on June 5, 2021

TL;DR – If you want to get straight to the API part, skip in down…

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  • automation
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Zerto’s Continuous Data Protection for Kubernetes, Part 2: The Hands-On Part

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on June 1, 2021

TL;DR: If you really want to get my deeper commentary on the value of what…

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  • Containerization
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Containers 101, Part 2: Building a Container with “docker build” and Pushing it To a Docker Repo for Use with Kubernetes

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on May 19, 2021

How’s that for a searchable title? In your face, SEO consultants! In Part 1, we…

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  • TOC Updates
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TOC May 2021 Update

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on May 12, 2021

Hey everyone. Thanks for reading. I have at least two posts in the hopper but…

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  • Bryan's Take
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Zerto’s Continuous Data Protection for Kubernetes, Part 1: What is It?

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on April 29, 2021

In the interest of full disclosure, TOC-ers, I am getting paid for this blog post.…

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Ansible Tips and Tricks: –list-hosts and/or Forcing People to Use –limit

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on April 19, 2021June 17, 2021

As much as I would like to think that I am careful when running Ansible…

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  • Containerization
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Containers 101, Part 1: Containers Defined and How to Run Them

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on April 13, 2021

I have published no less than two Kubernetes Series posts and not once did I…

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  • Kubernetes
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Late-to-the-Table Kubernetes Part 5: Installing Applications on TKG Workload Clusters

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on March 30, 2021March 30, 2021

For those of you paying attention, you may be aware that I am changing the…

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  • Bryan's Take
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My “Side Project” “Comedy” Podcast – Bicoastal Boozecast

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on March 16, 2021March 16, 2021

Hey all. Bryan here. I hope you are enjoying my most recent post on Kubernetes…

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  • Kubernetes
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Late-to-the-Table Kubernetes Part 4: Yet Another Tutorial on Installing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on March 14, 2021March 29, 2021

So here we are. Part 4. Parts 1-3 go through a definition of what Kubernetes…

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  • Kubernetes
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Late-to-the-Table Kubernetes Part 3: Yet Another Explanation of Kubernetes

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on February 21, 2021February 23, 2021

For Whom The Post Tolls, The Post Tolls for Thee1 In Part 1, I made…

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Me = vExpert 2021

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on February 12, 2021

I am honored to be a first-time vExpert here in the year 2021. I have…

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  • automation
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The Fallacy of “Just Getting it Done”: Economics and the Use of Automation

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on February 6, 2021October 9, 2021

TL;DR Work smarter not harder by calculating opportunity costs. Yeah I know. Another opinion post.…

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  • automation
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IT Reality Podcast – Season 2 Episode 4 Appearance

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on January 29, 2021January 29, 2021

Forgive me for the not-so-creative title on this one, but the good people over at…

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  • automation
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The Six Year Rule: Keeping Your Skills Relevant in a Sea of Technology

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on January 27, 2021February 27, 2021

I am not sure I have ever gone into detail about my career history so…

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  • Every Foundation Needs a Home: My VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0.1 Home Lab Build

    November 10, 2025
  • Dear (Hack) Tech Pundits: Please Stop Saying “Containerizing Workloads is a VMware Replacement”

    March 28, 2024
  • See You at VMware Explore 2023

    August 14, 2023
  • A Treatise on Resolving Complex Outages: Engineer for the Unknown Unknowns

    July 11, 2023
  • One Year Later: How Sales Engineering Started vs. How It’s Going

    June 28, 2023

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