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Articles on multi-cloud strategies and cloud migrations to provide greater flexibility within an IT organization.
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Articles on VMware NSX including architecture design decisions and implementation and operations guidance.
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Cloud Native Technologies
Articles on cloud native topics including Kubernetes, Docker, containerization, and more!
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Articles covering various Ansible playbooks for automating VMware technologies, including Tanzu Kubernetes, NSX SDN, and SDDC deployments.
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Prepare for the VCDX Certification.

The VMware Certified Design Expert certification is the culmination of years of hard work and effort by infrastructure and cloud architects. Take your career to the next level by earning the VCDX certification leveraging these resources

  • Structuring the design documentation
  • How to make and justify a design decision
  • Preparing for the VCDX design defense
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Open Source Projects

Open Source Software is an important part of Virtual Elephant, whethers it's orchestrating deployments of entire VMware SDDC environments, deploying a single vCenter appliance, or deploying Kubernetes to a virtualized environment. Check out my key projects below.

vSphere SDDC Automation

Using Ansible, deploy multiple components within a VMware SDDC environment.

Kubernetes on vSphere

Using Ansible, deploy Open Source Kubernetes into a vSphere SDDC environment.

TKG Bootstrap VM

Using Ansible, deploy, configure and update a Tanzu Kubernetes Bootstrap VM.

Elasticsearch on Kubernetes

Deploy Elasticsearch, Fluentd, and Kibana onto a Kubernetes cluster.

I have 20+ years experience in the Cloud & IT industry.

My career has been focused entirely on enterprise operations within large-scale data center and cloud environments. I hold multiple  industry recognized certifications including the VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX-257) and The Open Group TOGAF 9 Certified Enterprise Architect.

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Latest Articles

Automated Kubernetes Deployment with Ansible

Virtual Elephant now has a YouTube channel! With everyone locked away (to varying degrees) during this COVID-19 pandemic, I have

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Kubernetes with Cilium – Ansible Playbook

Hopefully by now you've seen the videos walking a user through the full deployment of Kubernetes inside a VMware SDDC

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Walkthrough – vSAN Performance Monitor

Monitoring vSAN is an important aspect of any operational team leveraging HCI within their environments. As such, there are multiple

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Walkthrough – Upgrade to NSX-T 3.0

The past few weeks have been a whirlwind of activity at VMware with the launch of the new vSphere 7.0

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Kubernetes with Cilium – Challenges

This is the third post in the Kubernetes with Cilium series that I am writing as I work towards running

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Kubernetes with Cilium & Hubble

The first post in the series showed how to deploy Cilium as the CNI plugin for a Kubernetes cluster. This

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Kubernetes with Cilium

The Home SDDC Lab is fully online and operational now, so I've begun deploying different Kubernetes clusters, leveraging different CNA

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AWS S3 Backups for vCenter Server Appliance

Update: Confirmed to work with vCenter Server v7.0. If you had previously configured the backups in vCenter Server v6.5 or

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