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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
Some time ago I have moved one of my PowerShell projects to a new Atlassian Bitbucket server with Bamboo connection for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. To continue using …
With all the Cmdlets for the new features in Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4 and the additional ones for exiting features, the number of Cmdlets of the …
With the release of the vRealize Operations Manager 7.0, VMware has changed the capacity planning behavior of the product. The vRealize Operations Manager 7.0 does not anymore make the Host vCPU …
A few weeks ago I started to write a PowerShell Function that creates an optimized VMware vSphere NetApp NFS Volume and mounts this new volume to all VMware ESXi hosts …
Most of the time does a high security standard not make you daily operation tasks easier, but anyway, a high security standard is necessary for a VMware Enterprise Environment. You …
As Runecast Analyzer 2.0 was mentioned in a lot of discussions I had and blogs I appreciate, I wanted to give myself an impression of the latest release of the product. …
Beside vRealize Operations Manager 7.0 has VMware also released the vRealize Operations Tenant App 2.0 and the vCloud Director Management Pack 5.0. These three releases form together with the NSX Management …
Within a past project I was working on a topic that was covered by Daniel Paluszek in his blog post Security Compliance – Pre-configure your vApp firewall rules inside vCloud Director …
A few weeks ago I did an Update of the Veeam Backup & Replication environment in my Lab. After the update I wanted to make sure everything went fine and …
This is the first article of my VMware NSX Troubleshooting series. I am aware that already a lot of other blog post around this topic have been published, but …
Last Week I had to analyze a huge VMware vSphere environment regarding configuration issues and risks. One of the challenges was to Compare installed VMware ESXi VIBs, to make sure …