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
Using Ansible to Update ESXI VIB’s and manage vCenter at scale. Read More »
Need to create a bunch of VM’s at once in your VMWare vSphere environment? You can use the below script to do so. Just fill in the blanks in the $vmlist variable (A hash table in this case) to define the IP of the machine in question, as well as a corresponding name value. You
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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
Creating a portable VMWare Autodeploy instance on vCenter 6.5 appliance with PowerCLI Read More »
I encountered a few issues earlier today when trying to use the VMWare migration tool to move from a Windows vCenter 6.0 to a VCSA 6.5 appliance. The migration first failed with a error that was helpfully detailed by another person here “If you were monitoring the source vCenter server, during the export process, one
Windows VMWare vCenter 6.0 to 6.5 VCSA Migration Issues Read More »