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Deploying and Configuring a vCenter Appliance using Terraform

by admin December 7, 2020

Following on from this post covering how to deploy vSphere virtual machines using Terraform, I thought I’d take a look at how I could deploy vCenter itself, with the aim…

VCAP-DCA 5 VMware

How to Troubleshoot vSphere Private VLANs – PVLANs

by admin October 3, 2020

What is a PVLAN ? Private VLANs or PVLANs provide layer 2 isolation between ports/devices in the same broadcast domain. There are three types of private VLAN ports (or in…

VMware

vSphere 7 Upgrade – How to Upgrade to ESXi 7 Using LifeCycle Manager

by admin May 15, 2020

I recently wrote about how to upgrade vCenter to version 7. Following on from that, this article will take a look at how to upgrade ESXi hosts to ESXi 7…

Virtualization VMware

vSphere 7 Upgrade – How to Upgrade vCenter

by admin April 27, 2020

Following the recent release of vSphere 7, I thought it was time to take a look at how to do a vSphere 7 upgrade in my lab environment, taking it…

DevOps Virtualization VMware

vSphere 7 – What’s in the New Version of vSphere

by admin March 23, 2020

vSphere 7 has been announced, as part of a number of new product offerings as part of a portfolio of products designed to offer a comprehensive stack for modern applications.…

DevOps Virtualization VMware

Install Powershell Core and Running PowerCLI on CentOS

by admin January 23, 2020

Due to the release of Powershell Core, you can install powershell core and run PowerCLI commands on a Linux host. This will be a quick post to cover the steps…

DevOps Linux Virtualization VMware

Building vSphere Virtual Machines with Terraform

by admin March 13, 2019

I’ve used Terraform extensively with AWS and Azure, but hadn’t yet spent much time exploring what it is capable of with vSphere. With that in mind, I set out to…

AWS VMware

VMware Cloud on AWS Documentation Download

by admin March 11, 2019

Just a quick post to share a simple powershell script which will download all the current VMware Cloud on AWS documentation, found here, without having to click through the pages.…

Virtualization VMware

Upgrade a Standalone ESXi Host to ESXi 6.7

by admin February 6, 2019

I wrote an article not too long ago on how to update to ESXi 6.7 using update manager. But what do you do if you have a standalone ESXi host…

Virtualization VMware

Upgrading VCSA to version 6.7 from 6.5

by admin June 28, 2018

I finally got around to updating my home lab to vSphere 6.7, so thought I’d put together an article on the process of upgrading a 6.5 VCSA to the new…

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