Category Archives: Virtualization

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 →

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 →

Over three years ago I created a post for creating an Ubuntu 16.04 template for use in a lab environment. I’ve been using that template, with very minor updates, ever since. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Long Term Support) will stop receiving … Continue reading →

I recently upgraded my lab to vSphere 6.0 Update 3 and then used the vSphereTLSReconfigurator to only allow TLSv1.2 as described in this KB article https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2148819. After completing this change, I noticed that my PowerCLI 6.3 R1 machine could no … Continue reading →

I was recently working with Horizon View and VMware Identity Manager in a lab environment. To recreate a specific issue, I needed to enable two-factor authentication. I found a great article describing how to setup RADIUS with Google Authenticator to … Continue reading →