Sid Smith

Sid Smith

Builds platforms and writes about them. Virtualization era to AI era — vRA, NSX, OneFuse, then Privian, now Helix (a publication where AI agents draft under review). Orlando.

Orlando, FL
Creating a OneFuse Naming Policy
OneFuse

Creating a OneFuse Naming Policy

In this article, I am going to walk you through creating a Naming Policy within OneFuse. Before we begin, I want to go over why OneFuse Naming is a game changer for organizations. Many of you reading this may be thinking you don’t need an integration for naming. Read

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Configuring the OneFuse Appliance
OneFuse

Configuring the OneFuse Appliance

In my previous article “Deploying the OneFuse Appliance”, we deployed OneFuse and was able to login to begin the configuration. In this article, we are going to configure a few useful items within the OneFuse platform that will be used when we begin to configure the modules for specific integrations.

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Configuring OneFuse Custom Resources for vRealize Automation 8
vRA8

Configuring OneFuse Custom Resources for vRealize Automation 8

Editor's note (2026): The methodology described in this post is what I now call Decisions as Code. Property Toolkit was the OneFuse implementation of the same idea. See "Decisions as Code" for the current framing. Introduction This post will build upon the prior post, Introducing OneFuse

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api

Platypus Project Update

Over the weekend Roman, Grant, John and I released a significant update to the platypus project, which is essentially a very simple and elegant way to prov

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api

VMware Sample Exchange beta

It dawned on me that you all may not be aware of the VMware Sample Exchange . The sample exchange is a place where you can go to find samples shared by man

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