Removal of NSX-T 4.2 from vSphere 8
Kad I want to remove NSX-T from my environment the tricky thing here is the NSX-T agent is installed on each esxi host and also this is a non VCF environment.…
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Setup vSAN file service on vSphere 8 for NFS
The vSAN file service creates a share on vSAN so that clients can connect to a SMB or NFS share. For a stretched cluster you need to create affinity rules…
Ansible AWX using surveys to answer questions in playbooks “Virtual machine snapshot example”
You can use surveys in awx as a front-end for users to answer questions in playbooks in the from of variables. In this example I will ask a question on…
Error message – Power On virtual machine vmname Navigates to Virtual machine macaddress is not an allowed VPX-assigned Ethernet address. It conflicts with VMware reserved MACs for other usage. Failed to start the virtual machine. Module DevicePowerOn power on failed. Could not set up “macAddress” for ethernet0. Invalid MAC address
I got the following error message when trying to turn on virtual machine as I have a manual mac address added – Power On virtual machine vyos1 Navigates to Virtual…
Deploying a whole development environment ready using VMware templates and Ansible
In this blog I will explain how I was able to deploy a whole ready environment ready to use as people like to call it “On-demand environments”. I was able…
Installing VMware Tools the different methods
This blog is showing the number of methods to install vmtools Cluster wide vmtools update vmtool update through virtual machine settings vmtools updates through powershell vmtools upgrade through upgrade options…
VM Customization specifications walk-through and setup
The VM Customization specification is good when you’re deploying a new vm from template you can use a custom options to configure your vm. VM customization specification can be used…
Updating virtual machine templates in vCenter
High-Level Steps: Convert the template to a Virtual machine Snapshot virtual machine for safe restore Power on the Virtual machine Update VMware Tools, windows patches or anything else you need…
Ansible with VMware – Getting started with AWX gui – Part 22
AWX provides a web user interface to run playbooks and api’s and built on top ansible. Below guide is the initial setup after been deployed and connecting to vcenter, please…
Ansible with VMware – AWX injecting a username and password when running a playbook – vm from template – Part 21
I don’t want my password in clear text in playbooks so this how to encrypt the password in AWX and injecting into the playbook. AWX is similar to ansible tower…