This post is a quick update to let anyone who’s following my blog (other than my mother) that I’m taking a few days off this week to digest all the interesting stuff that comes out of VMworld 2015 US.
If you’ve been following my series on VMware vRealize Automation or are a fan of the Wednesday Tidbit, rest assured they’ll be back soon.
Stay tuned!
Recently I built a Windows Server 2012 R2 Failover Cluster to run my SQL, file services and Certificate Authority workloads. For a number of reasons (mentioned in the article) I decided to build it on the Server Core edition of Windows.
Whilst this offers numerous advantages, simplicity isn’t always one of them. One example of this is patching. Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago VMware released the PowerCLI Extensions Fling. This gives users early access to experimental PowerCLI functionality in the form of modules.
Whilst the highlight of the release was undoubtedly Instant Clone (aka VMFork), a bunch of cmdlets appeared for configuring vFlash on hosts. Fortunately for me, I recently had cause to use them.
When it first came out last year, I installed Microsoft SQL 2014 and configured an Availability Group to host my vCenter database (despite it not being supported).
Unfortunately it has never worked perfectly, and today I decided it was time to do the job right. I still need high availability for my SQL Server, and Microsoft Clustering Services would be ideal. Continue reading
In part 10 we configured the vRealize Automation default tenant for our lab. We decided against using multiple tenants as the lab is only hosting one organization, and business groups utilizing it will be defined using other means.
In this part, we configure the blueprints which will make up our service catalog. Continue reading
Recently I signed up with VMware vCloud Air, as I want to use it as an endpoint for machines provisioned in the lab by vRealize Automation. Before I could get to that, I need to link my vCenter to vCA, which turned out to be trickier then I first imagined… Continue reading
If you have been following my series on vRealize Automation then you will have noticed I have not posted anything in the last week.
This is due to an error I’ve encountered whilst trying to add a licence for the IaaS components. Once I have resolved this (or pulled out all my hair and called VMware!) I will continue on with the series.
Thanks for checking back.
In part 9 we installed and configured the IaaS platform for our lab.
In this part we discuss tenants. We configure the default tenant, and explain why you might need more than one. Continue reading
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