Virtualization, Cloud, DevOps, Reviews
Automation is perhaps the most exciting and most desirable skill in today’s work of infrastructure operations. Today “infrastructure as code” is a buzzword you here everywhere. If you haven’t started…
When you are running quite a few VMs in your home lab environment, it can get tricky to keep up with the IP address that are in use and which…
When thinking about automating the provisioning of thin clients as well as Windows PCs, a large part of the automation on the front end that we would want to be…
As we have covered before, Runcast Analyzer for VMware vSphere is a tremendously powerful product to ensure the health and to automate best practices discovery for your environment. Runecast continues…
One of the powerful things that Veeam offers is the ability to use PowerShell to both backup and restore virtual machines. This makes for great ways to automate tasks either…
PowerShell can do so many cool things for us not just from an automation standpoint but also from a configuration management standpoint. I wanted to help give some visibility to…
In many enterprise environments that may have aging desktop hardware and who are looking to transition to a VDI solution for end users, there are often difficult fiscal decisions that…
One of the words that we typically hear a lot in the IT industry especially when thinking about configurations of hardware and software is “best practices”. It is certainly important…
As we have already detailed in this post about how we can configure VMware clusters with PowerCLI and the benefits of doing so, the sky is the limit in what…
As powerful as VMware ESXi is out of the box in a standalone single server format, we really don’t get all the benefits of running a hypervisor in a single…
