Author: John Dias
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Repairing a Tandy CM-2 RGB Monitor
Last week I finally received a Tandy 1000A and CM-2 monitor from an eBay seller. Unfortunately, it wasn’t packed with the best care and both took some damage. I particular, the monitor was showing only a vertical line across the middle. With some suggestions from persons wiser on the Tandy Discord, I popped the cover…
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Repair and Refurb Atari Paddle Controllers
A while back I picked up a set of Atari paddle controllers at a second-hand store. When I got home, I tested them and found they weren’t working. I think there are only about 40 or so games that use paddles, but still I wanted them to add to the collection. The controllers are pretty…
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“Boot” From (V)HD in the trs80gp Emulator?
Recently I discovered a fantastic TRS-80 emulator from George and Peter Phillips. I’ve been playing with it, while trying my hand at BASIC after about, I dunno, 40ish years? Anyway, it’s much easier to write code on an emulator – particularly since you can use a modern editor like Atom to work with longer code…
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Well, it is gumbo after all…
If, for some strange reason, my blog is still in your feed after 4 years of inactivity and you happen to read this I want to explain what’s going on. About 4 years ago I took a new position at VMware in Technical Marketing for the Cloud Management Business Unit. Hooray, right? As such, my…
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vROps and Service Discovery – A New Dashboard for Troubleshooting Service Discovery
While working with the new vRealize Operations Service Discovery Management Pack in the Tech Marketing lab here at VMware, I built a dashboard to help troubleshoot service discovery issues. I am sharing this in case others find it helpful. There are a few things that can lead to service discovery failures: Version of tools older…
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The Self-Healing Data Center Part 5: Configure an Alert to Trigger the vRO Workflow
Now that we have configured the Translation Shim and vRealize Orchestrator the next task before testing is to configure vR Ops to send an alert to the shim. This will be the final post in this series and when you complete this, you will be ready to apply this solution to automate any alerts you…
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The Self-Healing Data Center Part 4: Configuration of the vRO Example Workflow
So far we have discussed the reasoning behind the Translator Shim, installed it, configured it, started and tested the shim server. In this blog post, we will set up things on the Orchestrator side so that the workflow is ready to go when an alert is fired from vR Ops. This blog post assumes you…
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The Self-Healing Data Center Part 3: Configuring and Testing the Orchestrator Translation Shim
So far, we’ve walked through installing the Translation Shims. In this blog post we’ll configure the Orchestrator shim for use. The Orchestrator shim is but one of the handful of shims included in the solution. More are being added via the community. Participation is encouraged!
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The Self-Healing Data Center Part 2: Installing the Translation Shims for Automating vR Ops Alerts
In the previous post, I explained some of the capabilities and limitations with vR Ops alert notifications for automation of alert notifications via the REST Notification Plugin. I also introduced the Translation Shims for Log Insight and/or vRealize Operations Manager Webhooks as a solution to these current limitations. By the way, as the name indicates, this solution…
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The Self-Healing Data Center Part 1: Using vR Ops with vRO to Automatically Remediate Alerts
If you are a user of vR OPs, you know that it can monitor your infrastructure, server OS, applications and more. But as this commercial suggests, monitoring is only part of the answer. Wouldn’t it be much better to have vR Ops attempt some simple fixes before giving up and calling for human intervention? In…