by vMan | Dec 27, 2022 | Random, SOE
So you are back for more Automagical goodness? You loved the Poor Mans vRA post but now want to scale out with container goodness and still be the poor man? This post will cover how to setup / build the containers running Ansible for the Automated SOE. (Powershell...
by vMan | Nov 1, 2022 | Powershell, SOE, vCenter
Might this just be the poor mans vRA for server builds? In this post I will show you how to build an Azure Devops Pipeline to automatically deploy Windows Server SOE’s (Standard Operating Environment) onto vSphere using Azure Devops Agents, Ansible on Ubuntu 22.04 and...
by vMan | Oct 29, 2022 | Monitoring, Powershell, vCenter, vRops
This next post is just a update to DRS – Tracking changes & alerting through vRops Some minor tweaks to the script to support vRops Token based auth and also a minor bug fix to one of the collections. Make sure to check out the original post for the details,...
by vMan | Sep 13, 2022 | Powershell, vRops
So it’s been a while since my last post, I’m still alive!! It’s been a busy 17 months for my family, after getting stuck trying to relocate back to Australia from Europe during the Covid19 lockdown, changing jobs and all the stuff that comes with it doesn’t give...
by vMan | May 16, 2021 | Powershell, vCenter
So this next post covers how to automagically pull data from RVTools and push the results into a PowerBI Dataset. After spotting @Kim_Bottu post over at vmusketeers, I realised that maybe there would be some interest from the community in my script to push datasets on...
by vMan | Mar 12, 2021 | Powershell, Random
So I will keep this one short and sweet. It’s a simple script to run a webserver in Powershell which serves a file, hold on what? good gawd why, you say!?!?! because powershell that’s why! PS: It’s not my first rodeo with the light weight Powershell...
by vMan | Feb 25, 2021 | Powershell, vRops
So it has been a while since I wrote a blog post, unfortunately lock down has made it difficult to find time with work and family commitments. This does not mean I don’t have new content to post about… it just means I have no time to write posts! So this...
by vMan | Nov 14, 2020 | Random
This next one left me scratching my head… I was trying to put one of my hosts into MM for an NSX upgrade / patching and got the following error: Host cannot enter maintenance mode because it failed to enter Namespaces maintenance mode on the node. What is really...
by vMan | Nov 6, 2020 | Lab, Random
Quick little post around expanding storage on my SuperMicro sys-5028d-tn4t / device compatibility… I found a reasonably prices 2TB expansion for the homelab… While I know it’s not the best device / solution in terms of performance it is value for...
by vMan | Oct 20, 2020 | Random, vCenter
Avert your eyes people, no fix for this one in the post… (yet) I just wanted to inform the community about a little bug / error with the syslog service on vSphere / ESXi 7 which I stumbled on. I started a little thread over at the VMware community forums,...
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