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  • Create Your First vSphere Terraform Configuration

    calendarFeb 1, 2021 · 4 min read · IaC HashiCorp Homelab Samples Terraform VMware vSphere  ·
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    Create Your First vSphere Terraform Configuration

    To get started with HashiCorp Terraform, you can download the simple executable file from HashiCorp here. To understand the basics of Infrastructure as Code and Terraform, have a read of the post available here. Terraform configuration files are text files with a .tf file extension. To get started, create a new folder …


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  • vRealize Automation 8.x - Setup vSphere Cloud Account

    calendarMar 14, 2020 · 2 min read · Automation Getting Started Homelab VMware vRA vRealize vSphere  ·
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    vRealize Automation 8.x - Setup vSphere Cloud Account

    vRealize Automation 8.x can integrate with several cloud providers, and to do this for your vSphere environment, select Cloud Assembly > Infrastructure > Connections > Cloud Accounts and create each of the cloud integrations you require. For vSphere, enter the vCenter FQDN / IP address, the credentials to …


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  • vRealize Suite Announcement - March 2020

    calendarMar 10, 2020 · 4 min read · VMware vRA vRealize vRO vROps vRSLCM vSphere  ·
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    vRealize Suite Announcement - March 2020

    Today is a significant day for VMware with the announcements coming out primarily around vSphere 7 and the implementation of Project Tanzu. The vSphere client will now natively support running containers and VMs within the same unified console, the vSphere Client. One very interesting new feature is the VMware …


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  • Homelab Setup Part 3 - vCenter Install & Configure

    calendarSep 5, 2018 · 5 min read · ESXi Homelab vCenter VMware VMware vSAN vSphere  ·
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    Homelab Setup Part 3 - vCenter Install & Configure

    To setup the NUC and install ESXi, follow part one of this guide. To configure the basic vSAN configuration for deployments pre vCenter 6.7, follow part two of this guide. vCenter Appliance Installation With the Intel NUCs set up (and a vSAN datastore created if running pre 6.7 vCenter), it is time to install the …


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  • Homelab Setup Part 2 - vSAN Configuration

    calendarAug 28, 2018 · 3 min read · Homelab Intel NUC Storage vCenter VMware vSAN vSphere  ·
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    Homelab Setup Part 2 - vSAN Configuration

    To setup the NUC and install ESXi, follow part one of this guide. The following is the process to bootstrap loading the vCenter Server Appliance onto a vSAN datastore. This process was replaced in vCenter 6.7 which provides this capability natively through the installer. If you are deploying vCenter 6.7+, skip through …


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  • Get memory allocated based on OS

    calendarNov 23, 2017 · 1 min read · vCenter VMware VMware vSphere  ·
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    Get memory allocated based on OS

    The following Power-CLI command will evaluate a specific cluster and return the ratio of memory utilisation between Windows and Red Hat Linux virtual machines. 1# Variable settings 2$clusterName = "insert cluster name" 34$winVMs = Get-Cluster $clusterName | Get-VM | ? {$_.Guest.OSFullName -like 'Microsoft …


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  • Managing Snapshots with PowerCLI

    calendarMar 3, 2017 · 1 min read · PowerCLI Powershell Snapshot vCenter VMware vSphere  ·
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    Managing Snapshots with PowerCLI

    With access to vCenter or vRealize Automation comes great responsibility. Clients often require a quick and easy way to take a short term snapshot of a server so that they can quick and easily rollback application changes. VMware provides a robust snapshot function, however when things go well these snapshots are often …


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GaryFlynn.com started out in 2016 as a way for me to share my experiences working in IT across the UK and Australia with others. Consider this my brain dumping ground for anything I think could be useful. Find out more about the site here.

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