vRealize Automation 8.1 Highlights
My journey with VMware vRealize Automation already started in the early 6.x-Days. Even then, I was absolutely thrilled by the flexibility and added value of this product. In the …
vRealize Orchestrator 8.1 Highlights
It’s been a while since I published anything about vRealize Orchestrator here. Besides Ansible and PowerCLI, the vRealize Orchestrator is still my first choice for the reliable automation of …
Script – PowerCLI VM Disk Report
Recently I had to create VMware vSphere VMs with a whole bunch of virtual disks. The application running inside of the virtual machines required a special disk layout and …
Veeam Availability Suite 10 unattended installation
Since Veeam has recently published the Veeam ONE 10 and Veeam Backup & Replication 10 RTM Build for Partners and Service Providers, I wanted to get my Veeam Availability …
PRTG Veeam Sensor – Retrospective
In 2016 I never thought that almost four years later I would still be working on my PowerShell script for a PRTG Veeam Sensor. But even shortly after the …
Set persistent scratch location with PowerCLI
In common server configurations for VMware ESXi Hosts, the boot device is usually an SD-Card or a USB stick. These devices are cheap, require very low-maintenance and have a …
NetApp NFS Export with Ansible
For some time now I have been focusing more on NetApp Data ONTAP again. As usual, automation is a spotlight of my interest. NetApp offers a lot of options …
Veeam ONE unattended installation with Ansible
My new hobby project, Veeam ONE unattended installation with Ansible, was pretty interesting for me because of two reasons. First of all, I’ve never taken a closer look at …
Veeam and vSphere Tag Integration with Ansible
VMware vSphere Tags are a great tool to build a deep integration with other VMware or third-party products. Veeam already could use vSphere Tags as a backup object in …
Ansible Veeam Modules Preview
Creating an initial set of Ansible Veeam modules has been my goal for a while. It was clear that this had to be possible with the Ansible concept of …
Veeam unattended installation with Ansible
There are already a lot of great projects out there for the Veeam unattended installation. One of the most advanced projects is for sure the Chef cookbook for Veeam …
vSphere VM Security Configuration with Ansible
Since security is a requirement for the complete infrastructure stack, we will cover the vSphere VM Security Configuration with Ansible in this article. One of my prior posts has …
CA signed vCenter Certificate from XCA
For a small lab or test environment is a full CA setup far too much effort. So, I have decided to create a new root and intermediate CA with …
VMware ESXi Security Configuration with Ansible
If you read the vSphere 6.7 Update 1 Security Configuration Guide you will agree that the security configuration of VMware ESXi hosts is mostly about managing services, advanced options, …
My Ansible Development Setup
A few weeks ago I started digging into the Ansible universe. One of the first things I learned was the need for a proper Ansible Development Setup. My common …