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Writing notes

Infrastructure modernization, resilience, automation, and hybrid cloud notes.

Field notes and essays on enterprise infrastructure transformation, written from a senior technical leadership perspective.

2026

4 articles
  1. Infrastructure modernization is not only cloud migration#Infrastructure Modernization#Hybrid Cloud#Strategy
  2. Modernizing infrastructure without replatforming everything#Infrastructure Modernization#VMware Transformation#Hybrid Cloud
  3. Designing an ESXi-Based Homelab as a Portfolio Platform for Hybrid Infrastructure, Modernization, and DR
  4. Deploying a Highly Available K3S Kubernetes Cluster in my Homelab

2025

2 articles
  1. Moving from On‑Prem Virtualization to Cloud: Why It’s the Right Move#Uncategorized#azure#cloud
  2. vCenter upgrade fails at 97%#Uncategorized

2023

3 articles
  1. How to Create Local ESXi Account and Assign Permissions Using PowerCLI#powercli#vcenter#vmware
  2. Single ESXi infrastructure upgrade: how to#powercli#vcenter#vmware
  3. ESXi Logs: How to Fix the hbr-agent Issue!#vmware#esxi

2022

1 article
  1. Missing linked vCenter#vcenter#elm#enhancedlinkmode

2021

2 articles
  1. vSphere CSI - remove orphan CNS volumes from GUI#kubernetes#powercli#govc
  2. Raspberry Pi ddns#raspberrypi#Sytem Administrator#ddns

2019

5 articles
  1. [VMwareLAB] - 3.the design#Uncategorized#vmware#vmwareLAB
  2. [VMwareLAB] – 2.hardware#Uncategorized#vmware#vmwareLAB
  3. [VMwareLAB] - 1.first thoughts#Uncategorized#vmware#vmwareLAB
  4. VCSA filesystem is out of disk space#Uncategorized
  5. Horizon: one golden image multiple desktop pools#Uncategorized