automation
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Automation
Automated Windows 10 Installation with AutoUnattend and Packer
Not too long ago, I covered in a post called Create Unattend Answer File for Windows Server 2019 Automated Packer Installation. In carrying this further with continued automation of Windows machines for lab environments, I wanted to put together a…
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Automation
Use Ansible to Update OUI tables in Arpwatch
As most of you are aware, I have written a few posts about Arpwatch and the great value it provides in a network for visibility. It can help to uncover not only network issues that may exist, but also potential…
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Automation
Getting Started with Packer and VMware vSphere
Automation is the key to success in today’s fast paced world of hybrid infrastructure. Gone are the days of spending hours or days on build processes and infrastructure engineers holding up any part of the development pipeline. Today’s world of…
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VMware PowerCLI
PowerCLI Mass Clone and Rename VMware VMs from One vCenter Folder to Another
Automation is king of IT operations today. It is extremely cool and rather fun to be able to hack out a few lines of PowerShell or PowerCLI code in the vSphere realm and perform massive operations that would possibly take…
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Backup Software
Top 5 Considerations for Site Recovery
Disaster recovery is one of the most important aspects of IT operational planning and in thinking about business continuity. Organizations today are very data driven with the need for always available data driven infrastructure as is often found in today’s…
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VMware PowerCLI
Automate VMware vSphere Documentation with PowerShell and PowerCLI
Let’s face it, documentation is something that none of us get too excited about. We all know it is a necessary evil, and you are glad when you have it, but if you are like me, you hate to have…
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VMware PowerCLI
VMware HTML5 Web Client Fling PowerCLI Code Capture
Recently, I had seen a seen a blog post on the VMware PowerCLI blog about a new feature found in the latest release of the VMware HTML5 Web Client Fling that allows capturing PowerCLI code from your actions in vCenter…
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Backup Software
Configuring NAKIVO Backup and Replication Automated VM Failover Feature
Disaster recovery is one of those things that no one really wants to think about until they have to. Unfortunately, only thinking about the details of disaster recovery and failover when those events occur leads to much longer RTO’s than…
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Automation
Basic Terraform Installation and VMware vSphere Automation
One of the great tools in automation and DevOps today is Hashicorp’s Terraform. Terraform is a great way to provide powerful automation in most any environment spanning on-premise infrastructure to public cloud environments. One of the many advantages of utilizing…
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Automation
Manage and Configure Windows Servers with Ansible Tower
Ansible Tower provides a really nice GUI interface to managing an Ansible deployment. Additionally, it provides the ability to create job templates, scheduling, and notifications which definitely add to the power of Ansible Tower in configuration management. Ansible Tower is…
