If you have a lot of configurations in a lab the way we do in VMware, then most of them are using private networks that are not even routable inside your company, let alone the internet. So you can very quickly get into a nested rathole of RDP/SSH sessions from your terminal to a jump-box... Continue Reading →
PowerShell Snippet: vRealize Automation Entitlement Utility
Here's a little something I found in my folder of scripts that someone else might find useful. I created it to backup vRealize Automation Entitlements for Catalog Items and Resource Actions. Originally it was needed to ensure we could retain the correct entitlements during an upgrade of Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, but it can be used... Continue Reading →
PowerShell Snippet: Manage your Cloud Management Platform
As part of building, testing (and breaking!) Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, we had the need for reusable, virtual instances of the entire vRealize stack and all the supporting components both beneath it (vCenter, PSC etc) and above it (Avamar and such). So we made extensive use of VMware vCloud Director (vCD) to create templates we could... Continue Reading →
