Blog about Cloud and Career
Unlock the Full Potential of Microsoft Copilot with Prompt Engineering Techniques Introduction: This blog post accompanies the talk I delivered at the M365 GenAI conference on Sunday, the 31st of March 2024. The discussion aimed to demystify the art of crafting effective prompts, a topic that’s becoming increasingly relevant as AI technologies like Microsoft Copilot … Read more
Introduction While listening to the Joe Rogan podcast, I first heard about Steven Pressfield’s book ‘Do the Work.’ This book is a powerhouse that metaphorically grabs you by the collar and says, ‘Hey, if you want to accomplish something, you need to battle through the obstacles holding you back.’ Pressfield focuses on identifying what he … Read more
Introduction What motivated me to document my professional journey and share it with others? I’ve navigated through a significant life crisis and struggled with the process of transitioning into product management. The subsequent move ‘backwards’ away from it caused considerable emotional stress and peer pressure. If I can assist anyone who finds themselves in a … Read more
Always blaming the network team first is tried and true common knowledge in the cloud industry. As an alumni CCIE, I would like to avoid this tendency, but reality raises its ugly head more often than not. I have encountered a frustrating problem with a customer using a vCenter converter to migrate(P2V) old physical servers … Read more
Why would you like to improve vCenter administrator expirience with roles and permissions in VMC on AWS? You would like to invest in Improving the vCenter experience with roles and permissions in VMC on AWS, as the administration experience can be slightly confusing. The confusion is caused by the default roles and permissions model of … Read more
I’ll describe in this blog how to monitor vSAN events in Slack with VMC on AWS. Creating a Slack notification alert of vSAN threshold exceeding, using vRLIC (vRealize Log Insight Cloud). Background Why do you need to monitor on Slack vSAN threshold exceeding events in VMC on AWS? Monitor vSAN events are one of the … Read more
In this blog post, I’ll describe how to to use AWS Directory service as an identity source for VMC on AWS vCenter. Background VMC on AWS default setup VMC on AWS by default has a single cloudadmin account named cloudadmin@vmc.local. You cannot add users to the vmc.local domain by default. To add users you need … Read more