VMware vSphere Infrastructure build completed, tested and ready for workloads. What’s next? Right, it’s time to create bunch of Windows and Linux VMs for customers! Fastest way to do so – prepare VMware PowerCLI / PowerShell script. In my case as part of the project I had to build 200+… Continue reading
In this post I provide several examples of how Ansible URI module can be used to automate REST API, and specifically VMware NSX-T REST API. Continue reading
Do you want to test or start learning Ansible and you have only Windows 10?
Following steps will help you to install and configure Ansible in Windows Subsystem for Linux. Continue reading
Part 2 This is Part 2 for the article “Export / Backup VMware NSX ESG/DLR configurations with PowerNSX (part 1, ESGs)”. I’m going to show how you can export configuration for DLRs in your environment. How to use this script The way to use script is the same as in… Continue reading
Why do you need this. If you work with VMware NSX on daily basis you should care about Backup & Restore procedure. According to VMware you can schedule NSX Manager backup and think you are on safe side but restore procedure requires to perform full NSX Manager restore and then… Continue reading
Summary Those of you who deal with FW rules creation on daily basis already know how boring could be to create 20-100 FW rules. And what if you need to repeat this task next day or next week again and again. In this case you need to automate this process.… Continue reading
We are using AppVolumes Manager on several environments together with Horizon View. When we were deploying the first AppVolume Manager I was asked to provide permissions for AppVolume Manager to local ESXi hosts to avoid using root permissions. There are guides which you can use to setup all required permissions… Continue reading
Some time ago I published a post on creating Linux OVF template, apparently people liked the idea because I was asked to do same for a Windows 2016 Server image. If you are a Windows guy, you for sure know that there are millions of ways to deploy customised Windows… Continue reading
In previous article at Runecast.biz I’ve described a use case for consuming the Runecast Analyzer REST API from vRO to remediate specific KB. It’s a valid option, but I felt there was too much overhead – adding REST endpoint, adding REST operation, taking care of each request and parsing the… Continue reading
Good Sys Admin is the lazy Sys Admin. Step by step IT automation is making its way in our daily activities and I like to use it as much as possible. Saving time and reducing human errors are obvious advantages, but I also like to watch how the magic happens.… Continue reading
