The Small Human Cloud

Virtualisation and General Technology Thoughts

VCF - I've Deployed it, What's Next? - London VMUG 2023

I was recently lucky enough to have the opportunity to present a session at the London VMUG #LonVMUG with friend and colleague, James T. The session was based on bringing awareness …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 9 May 2023

vSAN Storage Policy Summary using PowerCLI

I recently came across a need to review the Storage Policies in use within a vCenter environment and how many objects or virtual machines where using each policy. I saw this as an …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 26 Feb 2023

Deploying vSphere Templates with Packer &amp Azure DevOps

Ever since starting out on my learning journey with Packer and writing my ‘Getting Started’ blog series, I have not stopped learning and developing my templates. I have …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 13 Dec 2022

NSX-T Edge Node 3.2 Upgrade Issue - Hugepage Support

I recently did the first NSX upgrade in my Homelab! My Lab is running older hardware, HPE DL380 Gen8’s to be exact and this lead to an upgrade issue when attempting to …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 21 Jun 2022

Configuring vSphere 7 Auto Deploy

Whilst continuing to prepare for my VMware Certified Advanced Professional Deploy Exam, I have been configuring vSphere Auto Deploy. As with my blog post on vCenter Profiles, I am …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 26 Apr 2022

Client SMTP Email Submission & Graph API - Azure

I recently began playing with Azure DevOps Pipelines as a way to automate various aspects of my lab. As part of this I wanted to send email notifications that I could customize the …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 15 Mar 2022

Different Tools; Same Result – vSphere Tags

Following the last blog post on create vSphere Port Groups, let’s take a look at creating Tags and Tag Categories. Let’s first look at the process via the GUI, in this …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 15 Feb 2022

vCenter Server Profiles

Whilst beginning preparations to take the VMware Certificated Advanced Professional Deploy exam, I have started to look into the features and topics that I’m not overly …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 1 Feb 2022

Auto Connecting Devices to a VMware Workstation VM

As part of my latest homelab setup, I run my vCenter Server VM and Domain Controller VM on VMware Workstation Pro 16 and not on an ESXi host. This is mainly so I don’t have …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 11 Jan 2022

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