Packer Build Ubuntu 21.04 for VMware vSphere
If you aren’t already using Hashicorp Packer for automating builds of the various operating systems you use in your environment, you are missing out. Packer is a great tool that…
Year: 2021
StarWind HCI Evaluation Kit Released: Config Walkthrough
It is not often that you can fully try out an entire solution from a vendor in your own lab environment with all the management tools to get the full…
Terraform vSphere tutorial: Linux Virtual Machine Clone
Terraform is a great infrastructure as code (IaC) platform that allows easily spinning up and customizing infrastructure. The great thing is you can use it for many different environments, not…
New Windows Server 2022 Container Image Preview Install
Just a few days ago, Microsoft released news of the new Windows Server 2022 base OS container image preview. It is built from Windows Server 2022 with the Desktop Experience.…
Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) for ESXi 7.0 Update 2a Upgrade
VMware vSphere 7 Update 2 contains many great enhancements that I have written about here. Since Update 2 was pulled initially due to an error with the upgrade, VMware has…
VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 2a Released for Download
Well, we have been waiting for a few weeks now for the updated release of ESXi 7.0 Update 2 to drop since the first release of ESXi 7.0 Update 2…
Ubuntu Server CLI Cheat Sheet
One of the beautiful things about Linux is the power of the Linux CLI. This is what draws many to Linux to begin with. Granted, Windows has come a long…
StarWind SAN & NAS Free for VMware vSphere Released
StarWind has released a new and very exciting new solution that is based on their robust VSAN solution, called StarWind SAN & NAS Free. This solution offers the ability to…
Join Windows 10 Azure AD step-by-step
Today, organizations have evolved beyond using the simple on-premises infrastructure of traditional days. The traditional Active Directory domain that exists on-premises providing identity and access management services to all endpoints…
4 Reasons to Back Up Microsoft Exchange Online
Many organizations today are migrating business-critical data to cloud Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environments. Among these, Microsoft Office 365 is one of the most popular solutions available. Accelerated by the onset of…