Ansible Playbook: ESXi Maintenance Mode and Reboot Ansible Playbook: ESXi Maintenance Mode and Reboot In Ansible, you can run multiple tasks by grouping them under a single play. A play is a collection of tasks that target a specific set of hosts and are executed in order. In this article I would like to share couple of my Ansible Playbooks for ESXi Maintenance and Reboot. […]

What is Ansible Inventory and How to Add ESXi What is Ansible Inventory and How to Add ESXi Ansible Inventory is a hosts file which contains every server that is managed by Ansible. Inventory file is located in /etc/ansible/hosts on your Ansible VM. Once you add server in hosts file, you need also to establish an SSH connection using SSH key. In this article I […]

Leveraging NFS Storage in VMware Cloud on AWS – Part 2 (Flex Storage) Leveraging NFS Storage in VMware Cloud on AWS -… In my latest post, I have covered how to supplement a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC deployment with Amazon FSxTM for NetApp ONTAP. In this blog post, I am going to present the similar option delivered by VMware called Cloud Flex Storage. #nfs […]

How to Deploy Ansible to Manage VMware Infrastructure How to Deploy Ansible to Manage VMware… Managing a virtual infrastructure can be a challenging task, especially when you have a large number of virtual machines or ESXi hosts to manage. In order to manage these virtual machines, you need a tool that can automate the process and provide you with a single interface to manage all […]

Google Coral USB Edge TPU Accelerator on ESXi Google Coral USB Edge TPU Accelerator on ESXi Several weeks back, I came across a really strange post on the VMTN communities asking how to change the Device ID (DID) and Vendor ID (VID) for a USB Device that has been passthrough to a VM from ESXi? The device in question is the Google Coral USB Edge […]

How to Configure Shared Storage for ESXi Hosts in Home Lab #Community #Homelab #vExpert How to Configure Shared Storage for ESXi Hosts… If you’re using vCenter with multiple ESXi hosts in your home lab, it’s a good idea to set up shared storage. This allows you to test many features such as vMotion, vSphere HA or DRS. Shared storage is desirable in almost every vSphere […]

NSX VIB’s cheat sheet NSX VIB’s cheat sheet After the installation process, you will discover the following VIBs (VMware Installation Bundles) installed on the ESXi host: nsx-aggservice: This service operates on management plane nodes and retrieves the runtime state of NSX-T components. […] VMware Social Media Advocacy

CMTY Podcast #643 – VMware vSphere’s 22nd… Catch the latest VMware Community Podcast as hosts Eric Nielsen and Corey Romero discuss automating 2200 VMs deployment in 22 hours! Guest Mohamed Jamal-Eddine talks about this unique 22nd birthday gift to VMware vSphere! VMware Social Media Advocacy

Update to my TAP installation scripts: TAP 1.5 supported + TLS + Scanning + Test… Update to my TAP installation scripts: TAP 1.5… I am maintaining a set of scripts that I use to deploy Tanzu Application Platform to (test) environment. With the recent release of TAP 1.5, it’s time again to update and re-evaluate my scripts: […] VMware Social Media Advocacy

How to Patch vCenter Server Appliance How to Patch vCenter Server Appliance Patching vCenter Server Appliance looks different than upgrading. As you probably already know, an upgrade is a completely new version of the software, and a patch is a new release of the current version with the latest fixes. I have already described the vCenter Server Appliance upgrade in […] VMware Social Media Advocacy