Automating ESXi installations eliminates manual configuration errors and accelerates data center scaling. By embedding a Kickstart (KS.CFG) file into your ISO, you achieve:
Zero-touch deployments: Install ESXi with preconfigured network settings, passwords, and disk partitioning.
Consistency: Enforce identical configurations across hosts…
Upgrading your VMware vCenter Server is a crucial part of maintaining a secure and efficient virtualization environment. In this guide, we’ll walk through the process of upgrading a vCenter Server using VMware Lifecycle Manager (vLCM), highlighting each key step with screenshots and best practices.
First, log in to the vSphere Client and navigate to…
Managing server power states manually is time-consuming, especially in large-scale environments or remote setups. For IT administrators overseeing Dell PowerEdge servers, automation is key to efficiency. Enter iDRAC (Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller) and the Redfish API—a modern RESTful standard for systems management.
In this guide, you’ll learn how to automate server power managem…
While managing large Broadcom VMware environments, understanding how multiple Virtual Machines virtual disks are mapped across datastores, SCSI controllers, and guest partitions is critical for performance tuning, troubleshooting, and capacity planning. Doing this manually is time-consuming and error-prone—especially when you're dealing with multiple VMs and complex storage configurations.
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The provided code snippets demonstrate a robust CI/CD pipeline for deploying notepad++ using Ansible and GitHub Actions. This setup enables automated deployment of software applications on a Windows virtual machine (VM).
Key Components
Ansible Playbook: The playbook defines tasks for deploying Notepad++ on a Windows VM. It uses the win_shell module to execute PowerShell commands, which map a n…
In this article, we will explore how to configure Ansible to manage Windows servers using OpenSSH. This approach is particularly useful when WinRM is blocked or not feasible due to organizational policies.
Prerequisites
This is a second part of OpenSSH Server configuration for Windows. In this part I am generating private and public keys, which will be used to login into Windows OpenSSH server. When using key based authentication on OpenSSH, you don't need to provide a password to connect Windows Server over OpenSSH (This is for Linux SSH server as well).
To start configuring password less OpenSSH server o…
I had a requirement to test configuring OpenSSH server on Microsoft Windows and connect it through OpenSSH client. Using given below steps in this article we can setup OpenSSH server on Windows server and connect through Linux SSH client.
First go to Settings >> Apps & features >> Optional features >> Add a feature >> Search openssh >> Select checkbox on OpenSSH Server >> and Click Install bu…
This article is demonstration on how to connect to Nutanix using PowerShell and fetch virtual machine inventory. This is the view of Nutanix prism central portal and on the dashboard I can see all the information related to Nutanix objects.
In this prism central I can see virtual machines. My task was to fetch this inventory information details using PowerShell.
Below is the PowerShe…
This article is a revised article of Create CPU quota usage alerts for subscription using Azure ARM templates. Initially, I encountered a challenge while attempting to incorporate ARM variables or parameters into Kusto Query Language (KQL) within an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template. Despite the rest of the template functioning as expected, the hard-coded KQL value used for defining alerts p…
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You code doesn't seem to work on Windows 11. I am seeing an error message
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I just wanted to say thank you very much for the excellent instruction guide!
It's my first time using Packer and I had no problem creating a new Windows 2022 VM using the information here, after tweaking the scripts.
