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…
Tag: automation
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
