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VCSA 6.0 /storage/core 100% Usage
I ran into this issue recently when one of the vCenter appliances in my test environment triggered this alarm in the vSphere web client: Logging into the VCSA via SSH and running ‘df –h’ showed that...
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Replacing vRealize Operations Manager Certificates
I had a project recently to deploy a three node highly available vROPs 6.4 solution. This included the master node, a master replica and a remote collector situated in a different datacenter. Due to...
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vSphere 6.5 – Upload log bundles to VMware direct from the vSphere Web Client
I stumbled across this new feature recently when working on a SR with VMware. It’s now possible to upload log files requested by VMware support directly from the vSphere Web Client. To do so, click...
View ArticleVCAP6-DCV Design Journey – Objective 1.1 – Gather and analyze business...
This post is intended to address the VCAP design objective around gathering and analyzing business requirements. At the time of writing, the required ‘Skills and Abilities’ listed by VMware for this...
View ArticleVCAP6-DCV Design Journey – Objective 1.2 – Gather and Analyze Application...
This post is intended to address the VCAP design objective around gathering and analyzing application requirements. At the time of writing, the required ‘Skills and Abilities’ listed by VMware for this...
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Vagrant, vSphere and Photon OS
I wanted to have a look at using Vagrant with vSphere to help provision a dev environment, mainly for an excuse to have a look at Vagrant. This post will cover the steps I used to get Vagrant up and...
View ArticleVCAP6-DCV Design Journey – Objective 1.3 – Determine Risks, Requirements,...
This post is intended to address the VCAP design objective around determining risks, requirements, constraints and assumptions. At the time of writing, the required ‘Skills and Abilities’ listed by...
View ArticleUsing Vagrant to Deploy Multiple VMs on vSphere
I wrote an article recently looking at how to deploy virtual machines on vSphere using Vagrant. On that post I covered how to deploy a single Photon OS virtual machine using Vagrant. Here, I wanted to...
View ArticleVCAP6-DCV Design Journey – Objective 2.1 – Map Business Requirements to a...
This post is intended to cover the VCAP design objective around mapping business requires to a vSphere 6.x logical design. At the time of writing, the required ‘Skills and Abilities’ listed by VMware...
View ArticleVCAP6-DCV Design Journey – Objective 2.2 – Map Service Dependencies
This post is intended to cover the VCAP design objective around mapping service dependencies. At the time of writing, the required ‘Skills and Abilities’ listed by VMware for this topic are: Evaluate...
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Creating a new VPC on AWS – Walkthrough
I’ve recently been working towards AWS certification – and took the first step in passing the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam a few weeks ago. After a short break I now aim to take the...
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Testing AWS Auto Scaling Policies using Stress
After creating a new auto scaling group recently, I was looking for an easy way to test the auto scaling policies I’d associated with the group. This is just quick post to cover what I did as a quick...
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Building a Scalable and Highly Available Website with AWS EC2 AutoScaling
I wrote recently about testing AWS auto scaling policies. Before you can test auto scaling policies however, you need an auto scaling configuration to test! This post will look at building a simple...
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Installing and Configuring Ansible on Centos
I’m going to be doing a few posts over the coming weeks around using Ansible with AWS. As a starting point this is a quick post to cover getting Ansible up and running on Centos, with the aim of using...
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Creating a Simple Ansible Playbook
Following on from my previous post on installing and configuring Ansible, I wanted to do a quick follow up with a few more examples to show what Ansible can do. Ultimately, my aim is to get to doing...
View ArticleMastering the VM Tools Lifecycle Video
I found this video from last years VMworld recently when searching around an issue with VM tools. It’s got a lot of great info so thought I’d share. Everything you wanted to know about VMtools and...
View ArticleStudy Aid – AWS Cloudformation Limits Flashcards
I’ve created these flashcards on AWS Cloudformation limits as I’m currently studying for AWS certification – maybe useful to some as a study aid! All are accurate at the time of writing. Note that some...
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vSphere 6.5 – Upload log bundles to VMware direct from the vSphere Web Client
I stumbled across this new feature recently when working on a SR with VMware. It’s now possible to upload log files requested by VMware support directly from the vSphere Web Client. To do so, click...
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Installing Jenkins behind NGINX Reverse Proxy
In this post I’ll look at installing Jenkins on a Centos 7 box, and set it up behind an NGINX reverse proxy server. To start we need to grab the Jenkins repo, before we can download the Jenkins...
View ArticleVCAP6-DCV Design Journey – Objective 2.3 – Build Availability Requirements...
This post is intended to cover the VCAP design objective around building availability requirements into a logical design. At the time of writing, the required ‘Skills and Abilities’ listed by VMware...
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