Ansible Username Password Prompt with vars_prompt
If you have been following my Ansible demonstrations, you will see that authenticating to my NetApp…
Getting Started with Terraform and VMware vCloud Director
If you have heard the announcements earlier this year and at VMworld 2019, you will know…
Creating NetApp Root Load-Sharing Mirrors with Ansible
Who loves creating root load-sharing mirrors (LS-mirrors) ? If you manage 1 Ontap system with 1…
NetApp Auto Aggregate Volume Evacuation With PowerShell
Have you ever had to perform a large number of vol moves in order to evacuate…
Creating Multi-Part Ansible Playbook With Variables – NetApp and VMware
If you followed my last post where I created an Ansible Playbook to complete a full…
How To Automate NetApp Installations With Ansible
Last month, I decided it was time to get my hands dirty and jump right into…
NetApp Ontap 9.6 Simulator Upgrade
Today has been the release of NetApp Ontap 9.6 RC2 and what better way to get…
How to Create VMware vSphere 6.7 Lab On Home PC
In this video tutorial, I walk you through how to set up a fully functional VMware…
Cisco UCS FI 6332 Bootflash has unrecoverable error
Last week I was testing a Cisco UCS migration from fabric interconnect 6248UP to 6332. Upon…
Automating The Installation Of VMware ESXi With PowerCLI
I saved a tweet a while back from William Lam about the ability to send keystrokes…
VMware VCSA 6.7 Backup Error Invalid vCenter Server Status
I came across this error the other day in my lab and luckily there is a…
How To Use The New vCenter 6.7 Update 1 Dark Theme
Today I wanted to bring you a quick video to wish you all a very Merry…
How to upgrade VMware ESXi 6.5 to ESXi 6.7
Within this video tutorial, I guide you through how to upgrade an ESXi 6.5 host to…
How To Successfully Upgrade vCenter Server 6.5 to vCenter 6.7
Upgrade vCenter Server 6.5 to vCenter 6.7 With the release of vSphere 6.7, quite a few…
Update VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.7 VCSA to Update 1
How to update vCenter 6.7 Appliance to Update 1 VMware vCenter 6.7 Update 1 has been…
VMworld 2018 Day 1 Announcements
VMworld 2018 Day 1 What’s New VMworld 2018 Day 1 started off with some exciting announcements…
NetApp Ontap 9 Configure Advanced Drive Partitioning
I recently tweeted out about the awesome boot menu option that NetApp has introduced in Ontap…
NetApp – Sense Data SCSI:aborted command
NetApp scsi.cmd.checkCondition Warning A quick blog post to highlight an EMS event that we have encountered…
Netapp Ontap 9.3 Simulator
Since my last twitter post on Netapp Ontap 9.3, a few people have asked me how…
VMware vCloud Director Custom System Roles Not Working
Within VMware vCloud Director it is possible to create custom system roles to create different levels…
Cryptocurrency Cloud Mining with Hashflare
By now most people have heard about the evolution of cryptocurrency, including bitcoin, ethereum, dash, litecoin,…