Random Technology thoughts from an Irish Virtualization Geek (who enjoys saving the world in his spare time).
In Part 1 of this post I covered setup of the environment, creating the nested host VMs themselves and configuring kickstart. Basically we did everything in purple in this workflow. In this post I'll cover the last three steps required to get these nested hosts deloyed and prepped for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) bringup or... Continue Reading →
Update: I decided to revise this post as despite it showing the kickstart aspect pretty well, I felt it didnt showcase the use of multi-threading as well as it could have. As a more tangible use case for my recent post on reusing functions in multi-threaded PowerShell scripts I thought I'd share some recent work... Continue Reading →
I had a use case where I wanted to deploy and configure multiple virtual machines in parallel. Each virtual machine required the execution of a number of existing functions to complete the task, and a series of variables to be passed to each function to accomplish that. There is not a lot of good information... Continue Reading →
As part of some recent testing, I had the need for a quick and easy backup tool for creating imaged-based backups of my various virtual machines and appliances. To get moving quickly I decided to use a little tool called ghettoVCB created by William Lam (https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2015/05/ghettovcb-vib-offline-bundle-for-esxi.html). It's easy to install, has a near zero learning... Continue Reading →
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