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…
Tag: automation
Basic Chef Workstation and Server Installation and configuration
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…
Automate Documenting Used IP Addresses on my Network
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…
Automate configuration of Thin and Zero Client with Praim ThinMan
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…
Runecast Analyzer VMware Best Practices new REST API Integration
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…
Automate Veeam Restores Using PowerShell
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…
Install VMware Pester PowerCLI Configuration Management
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…
Automate and Repurpose Old PCs into Thin Client VDI
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…
Automate VMware Best Practices with Runecast Analyzer
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…
Automate vSwitch and VMkernel configuration VMware PowerCLI
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…
