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Automating The Installation Of VMware ESXi With PowerCLI
I saved a tweet a while back from William Lam about the ability to send keystrokes to a VM via PowerCLI. The first thing that popped into mind is “Automating a nested ESXi installation”. As you could...
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Cisco UCS FI 6332 Bootflash has unrecoverable error
Last week I was testing a Cisco UCS migration from fabric interconnect 6248UP to 6332. Upon testing I noticed straight out of the box that the 6332’s had the following error: ERROR: bootflash: has...
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How to Create VMware vSphere 6.7 Lab On Home PC
In this video tutorial, I walk you through how to set up a fully functional VMware vSphere 6.7 Lab within your home pc utilizing VMware Workstation. This is the exact way I started with my home lab...
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NetApp Ontap 9.6 Simulator Upgrade
Today has been the release of NetApp Ontap 9.6 RC2 and what better way to get familiar with it than to run it up in the lab as a simulator. The simulator is not yet available via the NetApp Support...
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How To Automate NetApp Installations With Ansible
Last month, I decided it was time to get my hands dirty and jump right into learning some Ansible Automation with NetApp. I bookmarked a link to a blog article that was posted on NetApp.io (The Pub)...
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Creating Multi-Part Ansible Playbook With Variables – NetApp and VMware
If you followed my last post where I created an Ansible Playbook to complete a full setup of a NetApp simulator, you would have seen that it was one gigantic playbook. Working with one gigantic...
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NetApp Auto Aggregate Volume Evacuation With PowerShell
Have you ever had to perform a large number of vol moves in order to evacuate or decommission an aggregate? This week I had to evacuate about 50+ volumes from an aggregate that is being decommissioned....
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Creating NetApp Root Load-Sharing Mirrors with Ansible
Who loves creating root load-sharing mirrors (LS-mirrors) ? If you manage 1 Ontap system with 1 SVM you may enjoy it, but if you manage multiple systems with many SVM’s then you may not enjoy it as...
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Getting Started with Terraform and VMware vCloud Director
If you have heard the announcements earlier this year and at VMworld 2019, you will know that VMware is embracing Terraform for VMware vCloud Director. This means that your Automation for VMware...
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Ansible Username Password Prompt with vars_prompt
If you have been following my Ansible demonstrations, you will see that authenticating to my NetApp simulator I had the username and password embedded into the variables.yml file. Like this: # ONTAP...
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How to Upgrade Your NetApp Simulator to ONTAP 9.7
In this article I’m going to walk you through the steps I used to upgrade my NetApp Simulator from ONTAP 9.6 to the new ONTAP 9.7 RC1 Warning: This is strictly performed on the NetApp simulator. Do...
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How To Join Existing vCenter Servers By Enhanced Linked Mode
Last month I was asked to join two existing VMware vCenter Servers each with embedded platform services controllers, in enhanced linked mode. Additionally, this will create one SSO domain and enable...
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How To Easily Create An AWS EC2 Linux Instance
This is a beginner’s guide to creating your first Amazon AWS EC2 Linux Instance in one of the world’s largest hyper scalers. Before Getting Started If you are just starting out with Amazon AWS, I...
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This Is How To Create An AWS Windows EC2 Instance
In last week’s post I went through how to create an Amazon AWS Linux EC2 Instance. Within that tutorial, we created a Linux web server and used an automated script to install the httpd service which...
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The New Powerful Veeam V10 VM And NAS File Backups
Veeam V10 was recently released and I was keen to get this deployed in the lab and check out some of the new features this awesome product has to offer. As a Cloud Service Provider, we heavily rely on...
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Veeam Backup and Replication V10 – VM and NAS File Restores
Previously, in part 1 of Veeam Backup and Replication V10, we created a virtual machine and NAS file-share backup. The virtual machine backup was configured to backup to our ReFS scale-out backup...
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Learn How To Configure Windows Server 2019 Active Directory
A few comments came in via my Youtube channel requesting a new Active Directory setup tutorial. Especially with some of the VMware Center tutorials requiring some form of DNS. As a result, here we are...
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Creating NetApp Root Load-Sharing Mirrors with Ansible
Who loves creating root load-sharing mirrors (LS-mirrors) ? If you manage 1 Ontap system with 1 SVM you may enjoy it, but if you manage multiple systems with many SVM’s then you may not enjoy it as...
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Getting Started with Terraform and VMware vCloud Director
If you have heard the announcements earlier this year and at VMworld 2019, you will know that VMware is embracing Terraform for VMware vCloud Director. This means that your Automation for VMware...
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Ansible Username Password Prompt with vars_prompt
If you have been following my Ansible demonstrations, you will see that authenticating to my NetApp simulator I had the username and password embedded into the variables.yml file. Like this: # ONTAP...
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