Daniel Micanek virtual Blog – Like normal Dan, but virtual.
I love writing automation, especially for deploying a consistent and repeatable environment for testing or learning purposes. I recently deployed the latest Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.14 (formally vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager or vRSLCM) manually using the graphical Easy Installer method [..]
Take a look at the @VMware #vSphere 8 STIG Readiness Guide to get pertinent information about technical, standards-based hardening guidance:
Thanks for all the feedback, the #vSphere Metrics book, 3rd edition, is finally released. The book remains free, and no, I don’t want your email address or your credit card number 😉 . Simply download from […]
I recently had a customer inquiry where they were interested in automating the certificate replacement for vCenter Solution Users when using the /usr/lib/vmware-vmca/bin/certificate-manager CLI, which is found within the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). Note: One important thing to understand […]
Back in 2012, a VMware Fling was released called VIB Author, which allowed users to create their own custom vSphere Infrastructure Bundles (VIB) that typically would include configuration changes that was not possible when using the vSphere API such as enabling custom ESXi firewall ports or […]
On occasion, you might find yourself needing to take multi-level VM snapshots for various testing or development purposes, not an uncommon task for IT administrators. In the past, if you needed to move the VM and preserve its snapshot hierarchy, it was usually difficult and involved manual tasks […]
VMware vCenter Server and VMware ESXi are attractive targets for ransomware attacks. In this session, we show you how to proactively protect the VMware vSphere platform against ransomware and detect attacks before they encrypt your ESXi hosts and VMs. Using experiences and examples from multiple …Read More
While updating and testing my Automated Lab Deployment Script for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), I often found myself checking whether the bringup process has completed or not using the Cloud Builder UI. Ideally, I could configure some type of notification that would alert me immediately when […]
Slow but steady. That’s how I would describe the pace and progress around making SDDC.Lab version 6 the new default and recommended version of the project. If you’re not familiar with the SDDC.Lab project, it’s a collection of Ansible Playbooks that perform fully automated deployment and […]
Continuing with my Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam preparations we’re now going to take a look at upgrading a Kubernetes cluster.
