Author Archives: brian.wuchner

Lightweight VM for testing – TinyCore Linux

Posted on February 29, 2020 by brian.wuchner

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 … Continue reading →

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vRealize Operations Alerts using Rest Notification Plugin

Posted on February 2, 2020 by brian.wuchner

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, … Continue reading →

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Using Log Insight Agent to find insecure LDAP binds

Posted on February 2, 2020 by brian.wuchner

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 … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 18.04 Grow Filesystem

Posted on January 26, 2020 by brian.wuchner

In a previous post we created an Ubuntu 18.04 template that only has a 16GB disk. The template is fairly lean, without many packages installed, but the root filesystem is already at 21% full. For many applications this will be … Continue reading →

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Deploy Ubuntu 18.04 from Template

Posted on January 26, 2020 by brian.wuchner

In a previous post we created an Ubuntu 18.04 template. When that template is deployed, we need to make a few changes to customize the VMs personality. To assist with that we’ll create a customization specification from Menu > Policies … Continue reading →