Centos Based Certificate Authority For The VMware Lab

A useful thing for a home lab or VMware lab, is a certificate authority. There are Windows based CA’s as well as Linux based and many others. I wanted to take the Linux based …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 27 Jul 2020

Configuring Encrypted vMotion With PowerCLI

Encrypted vMotion is a feature available in vSphere 6.5 onwards. It is something that is always used to secure vMotions of encrypted virtual machines, its a required option, but is …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 9 Jul 2020

Exporting and Importing Active Directory OU Structures

Recently I needed to build out some test Active Directory Forests that resemble production in order to complete some testing. One of the forests contained a significant amount of …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 2 Jul 2020

Creating Virtual Distributed Port Groups Using PowerCLI

I recently needed to create a new Distributed Port Group and set a specific load balancing policy on an existing Distributed Switch. Nothing to exciting, but a task many have to …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 29 Jun 2020

VMWorld 2020 Registration is open!

This year, as much as we have lost the ability to travel and connect with people in person at this event, it has presented an opportunity for individuals to attend from the comfort …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 23 Jun 2020

vCenter Tag Administration Permissions

The use of VMware tags recently became a requirement for some of my colleagues in an environment that was inherited. They were faced with being unable to create Tags & Tag …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 19 Jun 2020

vSphere 7 / VCF4.0 HOLs now available

Want to get hands on with vSphere 7 and VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 (VCF4) but don’t have a either access to it or a HomeLab to install it? VMware have announced the …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 17 Jun 2020

Adding an Identity Source (LDAP) - Username Format Error

I recently needed to validate some permissions using LDAP as an identity source. I hadn’t actually had a need to add an identity source to my Lab until now, so I set about …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 16 Jun 2020

Deploying Custom Virtual Standard Switches for Management

I have been rebuilding my lab hosts a lot lately! Once because I fiddled too much with my vSAN cluster and killed it… Another more interesting occasion being the release of …

Posted by Stephan McTighe on 11 Jun 2020

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