vCloud HCL generator for Terraform
vCloud Director is one of the VMware products which help service providers with the public cloud delivery. As with the most VMware products, developers can communicate with it by API. Continue reading
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“Unable to expire password for root” – Debian 9 in vCloud Director
Debian 9 was released on 17th of June 2017, and for me, it was not only the information about the arriving upgrades. Also, it was the sign of the new Continue reading
Cannot customize CentOS on vCloud Director
Last week I spent some time creating and updating vCloud Director templates. It’s a very long process if you want to do everything perfectly. You know, one mistake and you Continue reading
Using Terraform to deploy VM with an additional disk in vSphere
Some time ago I wrote a post, which explains how to deploy VM in vSphere using a Terraform. It’s something like a universal Terraform configuration for vSphere. You don’t need Continue reading
PowerCLI in the PowerShell Gallery – how to and why?
PowerCLI is the best managing and automation tool for vSphere environments. I cannot imagine my work without this fantastic thing. The only one inconvenience I see in the PowerCLI is an Continue reading
Alias for Connect-VIServer arguments – PowerShell functions
I think most of you agree with me when I say that typing “Connect-VIServer -Server name-of-server” is very annoying. Especially when you have many vCenter Servers to manage. First thing Continue reading
Fun with PowerCLI – how to get Windows VMs in vCloud Director
Honestly speaking, I’m in love with PowerCLI. I know that VMware admin cannot optimize his job without PowerCLI, but in my case it’s a higher level of scripting love. At Continue reading
Deploying vSphere VM with Terraform
This article is outdated! Unfortunately, this article is outdated, so please be careful when you will implement this solution! Do you know when infrastructure deploying was revolutionized? It was the Continue reading
ESXi upgrade permission denied
There are many bad things which can happen during the infrastructure upgrade. Sometimes it is caused by a sysadmin mistake, sometimes it may be a software bug, but it really Continue reading