automation
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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…
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Automation
Configure Ansible Windows Server Kerberos authentication in Ubuntu
Managing Windows Servers with Ansible is a powerful way to perform configuration management and to remediate configuration skew in a server environment. As we have already explored basic Windows Server automation with Ansible and how to bootstrap Windows Server configuration…
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Automation
Bootstrap Windows Server Configuration with Ansible Playbooks
In our previous Ansible post covering basic Windows Server automation with Ansible, we looked at how to get an ansible server up and running as well as how to get the Ansible server connected to a Windows Server that we…
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Automation
Basic Windows Server Automation with Ansible
We have already looked at installing Ansible Tower for GUI administration of Ansible which we will go back to. I want to back up a little bit and cover working with Ansible from the command line, showing how easy it…
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Automation
Install and Configure Ansible Tower in Ubuntu Server
One of the goals that I have set for 2018 is learning more automation skills and employing these both in the home lab as well as with employers. The days of pointing and clicking to get things done are no…
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Automation
Automating a Home Lab Windows Server with Chef
In a previous post, Basic Chef Workstation and Server Installation and configuration, we took a look at how to get up and running in a basic sense with a working Chef server as well as a management workstation running the…
