automation
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vSphere 6.7
Update VMware ESXi Hosts with Ansible
Ansible is a great tool to perform various automation tasks quickly and easily. I really enjoy using it in the home lab to automate various tasks. Have you ever wanted to update multiple standalone ESXi hosts in an automated way?…
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home lab
Prevent Domain Trust Relationship Failed with Snapshots in a Lab
If you have ever worked in a lab environment for any time period, VMware snapshots are a great feature to leverage for quick rollback and testing. As most of you already know, snapshots allow you to have a “picture” of…
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vRealize Suite
vRealize Automation Easy Installer LCMVRAVACONFIG590003 Error
In working with vRealize Easy Installer in the lab environment recently deploying vRealize Lifecycle Manager, vRealize Identity Manager, and vRealize Automation 8.0.1 I ran into an issue with the easy installer once it got to the point of installing vRealize…
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Automation
vRealize Orchestrator 8.0 Download Install and Configuration
Performing all the tasks associated with daily IT administration today in a manual way can be time consuming, tedious, and down right impossible. Automation is king when it comes to getting things done in a timely and efficient manner. VMware…
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Automation
Deploy Windows Updates with PDQ Deploy
If you are like me, keeping your hosts updated can be one of the most cumbersome and tedious tasks that you have to carry out in your environment. However, as has recently been shown with numerous security scares already to…
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DevOps
Terraform for Azure Tutorial
Modernizing the way IT operations is able to provision, manage, and provide the needed resources for development necessitates the need to automate processes. This is especially true in cloud environments like Microsoft Azure. Terraform is gaining wide adoption as the…
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vRealize Suite
vRealize Automation 8 Install and Configuration
VMware is doing great work to consolidate many of the new cloud-centric technologies and solutions with the on-premises versions and bringing these features and interfaces to a unified stance. The new vRealize Automation 8 is a great example of this…
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Automation
Automate Windows Server 2019 Core Installation and Deployment
As detailed in the previous post yesterday, Windows Server 2019 Core edition is gaining momentum among customers as the go to Windows edition for installation in their environments. Due to great new tools and extensions such as Windows Admin Center…
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Backup Software
Protect VMs at the Site-Level with VM Replication
We have covered various aspects of protecting your valuable business data, including effective backups as well as both VMware vSphere and Hyper-V backup best practices. By thinking about your data, and best practices for protecting it in these two very…
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VMware
Automate and Manage Capacity and I/O Across VMware Datastores with Storage DRS
If you manage multiple single LUNs in production or perhaps in a lab environment, you may find it difficult to continually balance out storage either based on capacity of the LUN or the I/O performance you are looking to balance…
