In my environment I am using the Ansible vmware_guest module to deploy Windows Server VM’s on a vSphere platform. After using the module I should have a vm with a clean Windows Server installation which is automation ready. This works, however, the template was pretty static and kind of hard to maintain. Some necessary scripts […]
A little while ago I wrote part 1 of VMware Horizon View with Ansible and Powershell. The blog was about setting up a simple and scalable environment of FullClone VDI pools. In this post I will add some extra tasks and complexity to Horizon View with Ansible and Powershell. I will create a flow that […]
After battling Covid19 almost the whole of September I can say that I am back in business! In this post I want to show you how you can create a Horizon View Environment with Powershell and Ansible. This post will be one of three and will guide you in creating a simple and automated VMware […]
Last July I decided to pick up on the VCAP-DCV Deploy exam, again. This exam was actually a long time due for me. Almost two years ago I failed the 6.0 version of this exam. There were some serious problems with the exam delivery, but also, I had underestimated the exam. So, after a job […]
We probably all know this situation. You did a task in VMware vSphere or any VMware product and the task fails. The only feedback you get are generic errorsc and not much of a help at all. This can be very frustrating and sometimes infuriating, at least to me. What I didn’t expect was that […]
My previous post was about creating Ansible modules for NSX-v with Powershell. Today I will show how to skip Powershell and speed up the process significantly. I will do this by using the Ansible uri module and NSX-v RestAPI. Background Making your own Ansible modules with Powershell is pretty neat and cool. The big downside […]
About a year ago Ansible was still pretty new to me. At some point I got a question if I could automate parts of the NSX-v Distributed Firewall, prefferably with Ansible. So I started roaming the modules and found nothing. Then I roamed the internet and found little. Except for some Python tools, I found […]
Yesterday I attended my first full day online event. VMware Empower Europe Online. After attending the physical VMware Empower Europe 2019 event in Lisbon I was really curious how an online version would work out. In all fairness, an online event is not as vibrant and alive as the physical event. This shouldn’t come as […]
If you are a vSphere administrator managing environments with multiple clusters and vSphere Distributed Switches, then you are probably aware that naming portgroups can sometimes be quite a challenge.Especially when similar portgroups have to exist on more than one vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS), because you can’t have duplicate portgroup names within one vCenter. To avoid […]