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vCloud Director is no more... Long Live vCD! [VMware Cloud Director Service for VMC]
There was a very significant announcement at VMworld Barcelona overnight, with the unveiling of a new service targeted at Managed Service Providers. VMware C...
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Public Beta - Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v4
Overnight at Microsoft Ignite, we announced availability of the Public Beta for the next version of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365. This is again a mu...
Quick Post: Using Terraform to Deploy an Ansible Control Node on vSphere
In the continuing spirit of Terraforming all things, when I started to look into Ansible I wanted a way to have the base Control Node installed in a repeatab...
Quick Fix: Deploying Multiple Ubuntu 18.04 VMs From Template with DHCP Results Same in IP Allocation
In the continuing work I've been doing with Terraform, i've come across a number of gotchyas when working with VM Templates and deploying them on mass. The n...
There is still a Sting in the Tail for Cloud Service Providers
This week it gave me great pleasure to see my former employer, Zettagrid announced a significant expansion in their operations, with the addition of three ne...
Using Variable Maps to Dynamically Deploy vSphere VMs with Terraform
I've been working on a project over the last couple of weeks that has enabled me to sharpen my Terraform skills. There is nothing better than learning by doi...
Veeam Vault #11 - VBR, Veeam ONE, VAC Releases plus Important Update for Service Providers
Welcome to the 11th edition of Veeam Vault and the first one for 2019! It's been more than a year since the last edition, however in light of some important ...
Quick Fix - OS Not Found Deploying Windows Template with Terraform
During the first plan execution of a new VM based on a Windows Server Core VM Template, my Terraform plan timed out on Guest Customizations. The same plan ha...
Assigning vSphere Tags with Terraform for Policy Based Backups
vSphere Tags are used to add attributes to VMs so that they can be used to help categorise VMs for further filtering or discovery. vSphere Tags have a number...
Deploying a Kubernetes Sandbox on VMware with Terraform
Terraform from HashiCorp has been a revelation for me since I started using it in anger last year to deploy VeeamPN into AWS . From there it has allowed me t...
Quick Fix - ESXi loses all Network Configuration... but still runs?
I had a really strange situation pop up in one of my lab environments over the weekend. vSAN Health was reporting that one of the hosts had lost networking c...
The Separation of Dev and Ops is Upon Us!
Apart from the K word, there was one other enduring message that I think a lot of people took home from VMworld 2019 . That is, that Dev and Ops should be co...