I was recently showing someone my homelab and they noticed that I had templates for multiple Linux distributions including Ubuntu Server, Photon OS, and Tiny Core, as well as different versions of each. They asked why I didn’t standardize on just one Linux distribution or version. The version issue is…
Most of the time we want our virtual machines to run as optimally as possible. We don’t want to see CPU contention or high memory conditions. However, on occasion we may want to have some stress to see what that looks like in monitoring tools like vRealize Operations. I created…
I’ve often found the need to have a very small VM for testing. Some use cases would be testing if a DHCP scope was working, to verify if a VM port group was correctly configured, to confirm if a site-to-site VPN tunnel was up/passing traffic, to deploy/modify with PowerCLI, and…
I have created several vRealize Operations (vROps) alerts in the past, mainly using the Log File Plugin and Standard Email Plugin. However, I recently had someone ask for more information on using the Rest Notification Plugin. I hadn’t used this, so I started looking for more detail on how to…
I recently read an interesting article on the vSphere Blog: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/01/microsoft-ldap-vsphere-channel-binding-signing-adv190023.html, which states Microsoft is making a change to the default behavior of LDAP servers that are part of Active Directory. This change will require secure LDAP channel binding by default, and is scheduled to be implemented in March 2020.…