Veeam Backup and Replication
The New Powerful Veeam V10 VM And NAS File Backups
Veeam V10 was recently released and I was keen to get this deployed in the lab and check out some of the new features this awesome product has to offer.
Amazon AWS Posts
This Is How To Create An AWS Windows EC2 Instance
In last week’s post I went through how to create an Amazon AWS Linux EC2 Instance. Within that tutorial, we created a Linux web server and used an automated script to install the httpd service which then displayed a web page of the server’s internal IP, external IP and DNS name.
Amazon AWS Posts
How To Easily Create An AWS Linux EC2 Instance
This is a beginner’s guide to creating your first Amazon AWS EC2 Linux Instance in one of the world’s largest hyper scalers.
Vmware Posts
How To Join Existing vCenter Servers By Enhanced Linked Mode
Last month I was asked to join two existing VMware vCenter Servers each with embedded platform services controllers, in enhanced linked mode. Additionally, this will create one SSO domain and enable vCenter Enhanced Linked Mode.
Netapp Posts
NetApp ONTAP 9.7 Simulator Upgrade How To
In this article I’m going to walk you through the steps I used to upgrade my NetApp Simulator from ONTAP 9.6 to the new ONTAP 9.7 RC1
Netapp Posts
Ansible Username Password Prompt with vars_prompt
If you have been following my Ansible demonstrations, you will see that authenticating to my NetApp simulator I had the username and password embedded into the variables.yml file. Like this:
Vmware Posts
Getting Started with Terraform and VMware vCloud Director
If you have heard the announcements earlier this year and at VMworld 2019, you will know that VMware is embracing Terraform for VMware vCloud Director.
Netapp Posts
Creating NetApp Root Load-Sharing Mirrors with Ansible
Who loves creating root load-sharing mirrors (LS-mirrors) ? If you manage 1 Ontap system with 1 SVM you may enjoy it, but if you manage multiple systems with many SVM’s then you may not enjoy it as much.
Netapp Posts
NetApp Auto Aggregate Volume Evacuation With PowerShell
Have you ever had to perform a large number of vol moves in order to evacuate or decommission an aggregate? This week I had to evacuate about 50+ volumes from an aggregate that is being decommissioned. Instead of typing out the vol move command 50+ times I decided to automate it with NetApp Powershell module.
Netapp Posts
Creating Multi-Part Ansible Playbook With Variables – NetApp and VMware
If you followed my last post where I created an Ansible Playbook to complete a full setup of a NetApp simulator, you would have seen that it was one gigantic playbook.