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Using Ansible to Update ESXI VIB’s and manage vCenter at scale.

Recently I’ve been using Ansible to push out updates to vSphere environments that have a lot of hosts, but no working installation of VMWare Update Manager available. During the creation of the below playbook, I found a few interesting caveats to using Ansible to manage your ESXI hosts and vCenter. To resolve this, I’ve created …

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Creating a portable VMWare Autodeploy instance on vCenter 6.5 appliance with PowerCLI

Autodeploy is a great tool that is integrated with VMWare vCenter and is available for your use if you have the proper licensing levels. There are a few ways to utilize Autodeploy, and this guide will focus on using the “stateful” (Install to disk) deployment method. I’ve put together the steps needed to deploy this …

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