: Fedi Summer The following is an email sent to all vmst.io members on July 3, 2023. Hey there, vmst.io Member! …
: Micro.blog After decommissioning the vmst.io WriteFreely instance last week, I moved my blog back to Ghost. But …
: Sleep Apnea I went to an ENT a few weeks ago because I have been getting tonsil stones for a few years now, …
: Write(less)Freely On Friday, the vmst.io team made the decision today to sunset our WriteFreely offering for vmst.io …
: Classic Ordering Elan Hasson asked in a Matrix chat group of Mastodon admins how he should go back and watch classic …
: Netlify More We’ve been using Netlify for the docs.vmst.io site for a while now, but it wasn’t until recently I …
: Instance Purge This morning I removed just over 3000 dead instance connections from vmst.io. I know Mastodonizens …
: Blue Green I've doing some blue/green (maybe it's just A/B) testing on vmst.io this week with server updates …
: Virtually Federated I've been doing things with computers, since last October. In addition to launching a Mastodon …
: January Infrastructure One of my core beliefs about Mastodon and the Fediverse is that there needs to be transparency in …
: December Infrastructure I wanted to provide a round-up of some changes to the vmst.io infrastructure since it went live last …
: Registration Numbers I’ve had a few thoughts rattling around about registration numbers on vmst.io, vs instances that are …
: November Infrastructure This post is a rollup and expansion of a set of Toots around the new vmst·io infrastructure that …
: Still Here Honestly just making sure my site still works 🤭 Considering the news of the day, maybe I'll just …
: Gravity Updated Just under a year ago I started working on a side project, which I talked about here, called Gravity …
: Gravity Sync I just got on the Pi-hole bandwagon a few weeks ago, and boy do I love it. Really, who doesn't love …
: Interesting Enough Greg Morris writes: … I do suffer quite a lot with imposter syndrome. The great thing is, I have …
: Universal TAM This video from Atlassian was shared internally at VMware a couple of weeks ago, and my initial …
: Project Nautilus Introducing VMware Project Nautilus: Project Nautilus brings OCI container support to Fusion, …
: Resume Deletions There are some things that just aren’t worth putting on your resume. This was the reminder that came …
: Veeam Team The first time I used Veeam's backup software was in 2010. Up to that point I'd had experience with …
: Delicious Strategy I don't know who Peter Drucker is, but Matt's quote attributed to him, is sound: "Culture eats …
: Skip Day It turns out that finding something to write about every day is really hard. Shocking, I know. You …
: Outlook Overload For the last couple weeks I’ve been confused why Microsoft Outlook on my Mac would start consuming …
: Nonsense Awareness Jessica Joy Kerr in her blog post titled “Open your eyes to the nonsense” has a great anecdote from …
: Thirty Eight K I've historically been pretty terrible at two things: negotiating salaries, and promoting to my own …
: Resolution Delusion I'm not one for making new years resolutions. They always get broken, and then you're disappointed …
: Feeling Helpless For a while, what transpired in the aftermath of that night, left me feeling betrayed by some people …
: Gigacast Appearance I was recently a guest on Gigacast, along with Cody de Cody De Arkland and Al Rasheed, to discuss …
: Kernel Panic I’ve been thinking for over two years about how to talk about this, how to talk about the day I …
: Excess Battery I recently picked up an iPhone XS Smart Battery Case, for my iPhone X. I’ve previously owned the 6S …
: Revisting Essential Back in July 2017, I wrote about my 10 essential iOS applications. I thought now that we’re reaching …
: About My name is Michael Stanclift 👨💻 I work for VMware 🐢 I live in Kansas 🌻 I'm married to Sadie 🦸♀️ …
: Privacy Policy Who we are This is Virtually Benevolent, the personal website of Michael Stanclift. Our website …
: Certified Expert I’m pleased to announce that yesterday I passed the VCAP6.5-DCD exam, thus earning the VMware …
: VMware TAM I have accepted a job with VMware, as a Technical Account Manager (TAM). To say I’m excited about …
: Blueberry Lover Occasionally I’ll wear my “blueberry” VMware certification shirt to work. Some people in the …
: Doorbell Tweets I received a lot of feedback from my tweet about ditching a new Ring for Nest Hello. I think my Nest …
: Define Essential Two weeks ago, after regretfully trying to use the iOS 11 developer betas on my primary devices, I …
: Reasonable Salary The process of looking for a new job is stressful. If you already have one, you’re a bit like a …
: Beginnings End This morning I gave two weeks notice to my current employer, a Kansas City based VAR, where I have …
: Choosing Electives I’m going to start this by saying something that might seem strange for a post like this, but is no …
: Neowin Retrospective Most of the people who know and interact with me professionally, or on social media know me as …
: Enough Windows I’ve not been a true “Windows user” on a daily basis since the glorious afternoon my first MacBook …
: Leather Wrapped I have an on-again, off-again relationship with iPhone cases. I put them on. I take them off. I …
: Pant Lover I have some strict requirements around work pants. My wife hates the “I can see your socks while …
: Securely Obscure A couple of years ago, one of our network security architects at work told me that I was in the …
: VCSA Migration Last night I did my first customer migration from a Windows based vCenter to the VMware vCenter …
: RAID Crash Recently I had two VMware Horizon View proof of concept setups for work, where we designed an all in …
: Stronger Together I wasn’t going to get sucked into the 2016 election, then Donald Trump ran for President I’ve …
: 16GB Problems For many years, 16GB devices have been an issue for Apple and its users. However Apple fixed this in …
: Mobile Advantaged You know you have a problem when you get excited about plan changes on your cellular provider. …
: Blue Harvest I’ve long been annoyed with copying files to a USB stick, and then handing them to a Windows user …
: Apple TV When the 4th generation Apple TV was announced a few weeks back, my initial response was basically …
: Size Matters My original bout with the 4.7” iPhone 6 lasted almost seven months to the day. I remember this …
: Data Lake 2.0 Data Lake 2.0 is the next generation of the EMC Isilon portfolio. Isilon is EMC’s scale-out network …
: Neil McNeill Neil McNeill was the most interesting man in my world. Neil knew something about everything and had …
: Rash Judgement A couple of months ago I noticed a rash on my wrist, under my Apple Watch. I didn’t put a lot of …
: Java Jive Yesterday my local paper posted an article about a new coffee shop that has opened up near my house. …
: Uber Annoyed This afternoon, this image and rants from angry Kansans hit my Twitter timeline. I didn’t even …
: RPA Factory Reset I ran into a situation recently where the need arose to effectively “factory reset” an Generation 5 …
: Apple Watch After months of industry speculation, Apple today released pricing for the new Apple Watch. As a …
: Blog Engineering I spend a considerable amount of time and effort considering the infrastructure and engine that …
: Fewer Fucks Pardon my language, or don’t. Last weekend in my Instapaper Weekly email, was a link to a fantastic …
: Bird Bath This is the turkey brine receipe I’ve been using, adapted from this one by Traeger. The first time I …
: Still Migrating My second day transferring my iPhoto library to iCloud Photo Library seems to be going very well. …
: Migrating Photos When I saw the new iCloud Photo Sync demo at WWDC, I was in love. Photo storage and syncing has been …
: iPhone 6 My iPhone 6. 4.7”, silver/white. 64GB. AT&T. This iPhone is the first iPhone I didn’t …
: Guidance Change A few months ago I wrote about the VMware View optimization script breaking Internet Explorer and …
: Meraki Certified Wednesday I had the chance to spend the whole day soaking in knowledge. Always a welcomed event. …
: Tweet Sweep I’ve been trying to determine the best way to link the blog and my Twitter account together. …
: Jabber Persona I just got finished with a customer issue who had deployed Cisco Jabber along with VMware View, …
: Desktop Tested Yesterday I sat for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional in Desktop Administration exam. While …
: Facebooked Out Almost exactly one year ago, I wrote: I’m taking a Facebook Vacation. I’ve logged out from every …
: Partner Board I just flew back from Palo Alto where I’ve been attending the VMware Partner Technical Advisory …
: Guided Powers Power… it is the only thing that you will find more prevalent in a datacenter than racks, yet many …
: VNXe Thoughts I had some thoughts after reading Chad Sakac’s blog entry about the new VNXe 3200. The original …
: Broken Security I’ve been using the Windows Optimization Guide for View Desktops guide on the VMware website for a …
: Great Success There is a bug in Windows Server 2012 R2 in the volume license activation wizard, that if you don’t …
: NIC Life Life is rough for a ESXi network card these days, both pNIC and vNIC. It’s especially bad if you’re …
: FQDN'ed Up I ran across this little interesting tidbit in an EMC Support article that I wasn’t aware of …
: Advanced Administrator On Friday, February 7, I sat for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional, Data Center …
: Upgrade Lottery Over the weekend I facilitated a customer upgrade that involved: In place upgrade of Windows Server …
: Objective Complete The Cisco Data Center track has been around since November 2012, and when they announced it I knew …
: Associated Objectives For the next two weeks, while I’m on vacation and enjoying the holidays, I’m also going to be heads …
: New recruit(er) Historically, finding employment has not really been particularly difficult for me. When I’ve …
: Solutions Specialist Last week, I passed the EMC Implementation Engineer, Isilon Solutions Specialist exam. I actually …
: Longer Titles There is no other purpose for this entry, except for some shameless self promotion. I’m pretty …
: Fearful Coaching Something stood out from an article on the Birth Without Fear site that Sadie sent me earlier …
: Round Robin So you want to set your datastores to Round Robin, but you’ve got multiple hosts, dozens of …
: Facebook Vacation I’ve logged out from every device, removed the apps, the bookmarks, integration to operating …
: Big Data The civil libertarian in me is appalled at the NSA phone records from Verizon (and likely others) …
: vExpert 2013 Earlier today, John Mark Troyer announced the 2013 vExpert list. Shockingly, I made the cut, and I’m …
: Changing Things VMware has updated its certification names logos and logos, again. I guess nothing lives forever, …
: Oracle VM Oracle VM 3 improved a lot, they are not close to Microsoft or VMware, but it is pretty good if you …
: Using CDP The other day I was tasked with adding a new VLAN to a customer’s vSphere cluster. The existing …
: Host Memory Memory utilization is important in VMware, most of the time it’s the most limiting factor in the …
: Little Megabits You really should never use 100mb networking with VMware for much of anything. I’m not even sure …
: View Borked I’ve been on a View 5.1 deployment with a customer all week, and part of the project involved …
: VMUG Conference I used to go to a lot more of the Kansas City VMUG meetings back before I became a consultant (and …
: Steve Jobs One hundred years from now, people will talk about Steve Jobs the same way we do of Alexander Graham …
: AT&T Fun I’ve had AT&T’s U-verse service since October 2009, the day we moved into our house. At it’s …
: Phone Stress The boys who cried wolf (AKA The Wall Street Journal, et al) are all indicating that Tuesday will be …
: Last Passed If the recent Gawker password breach (re)taught us anything, it’s the old and valued lesson of …
: Evernote Mostly I’m a huge fan of Evernote. It ranks right up there with Gmail in terms of applications I live my …
: Gates Job If you’re an Apple fanboy you already think Microsoft just rips off Apple’s ideas. However, David …
: Commitment Issues I’ve never been one to have commitment issues. But my decision to move from the iPhone 4 to the …
: After iOS As I explained in a previous entry on Tuesday, I’ve made the decision to leave the world of Apple …
: Switch Hitter Ever since the iPhone supported Exchange, I’ve been a huge supporter. I’ve spent two good years on …
: Lazy Explorers The number of businesses still using Internet Explorer 6 is painful to see. Coupled with the fact …
: Local Admin A recent email discussion over a education security listserv got me thinking about the topic of …
: Snow Lacking Noted Apple security analyst Charlie Miller, author of The Mac Hackers Handbook and two-time winner …