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VMware PowerCLI what is it and how do I use it? You have undoubtedly heard all the buzzwords like automation, scripting, and coding. Probably even seen some really cool demos which opened your eyes to the endless possibilities only limited by your imagination. Ok, great! But how do you even get started, what do you…
The world of software is a vast and complex one, often too difficult to easily assess by human intuition alone. Which is why detailed and accurate measurements of software behavior are essential in helping us understand and gauge how well our applications perform. The Snap Store has a fair share of productivity tools and utilities,…
The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Meet the team Hi, I am Carlos Wu. I work for the Webteam as a web developer, and I just recently reached 1 year at Canonical! Read moreKali Linux 2021.4 Release | Kali…
“The King is dead, long live the King.” It might be my french roots speaking, but it seems that actual use cases are replacing King Edge, and it might be for the best. Warning; do not read this blog if you’re particularly sensitive about edge computing (and if you don’t know what this is about,…
Tech innovators use Linux to create intelligent devices for homes, factories, buildings, cities or vehicles etc… These things are deployed at the edge, in privacy sensitive or business critical environments. They require ever more compute to run ever smarter applications. A Linux distribution engineered for embedded devices running highly intelligent applications at edge scale is…
5th November, 2020: MOSCOW, Russia – MTS (NYSE:MBT; MOEX:MTSS), Russia’s largest mobile operator and a leading provider of media and digital services, announces the selection of Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack to power the company’s next-generation cloud infrastructure. MTS plans to leverage Charmed OpenStack’s advanced lifecycle management capabilities and flexible cloud-native architecture to better enable multi-vendor and…
According to leading independent researchers teknowlogy | PAC, open source platforms – and Kubernetes in particular – are central to the future of digital factories. The PAC RADAR report offers a detailed market analysis of industrial digitalisation trends, and it predicts that Kubernetes-based platforms that bring together edge and cloud technologies will soon dominate the…
Email marketing is still in great health and is still a very powerful way to reach out to new prospects. Key to that is the efficient management of those emails and all the onerous tasks most smaller businesses and some medium-sized ones simply don’t have the time or energy to perform manually. All things Sendinblue…
A few comments came in via my Youtube channel requesting a new Active Directory setup tutorial. Especially with some of the VMware Center tutorials requiring some form of DNS. As a result, here we are with what the followers have requested. Utilizing Microsoft Windows Server 2019. This video did take a little longer to make…
If you have been following my Ansible demonstrations, you will see that authenticating to my NetApp simulator I had the username and password embedded into the variables.yml file. Like this: # ONTAP Cluster Login clusterip: 192.168.1.50 user: ansible pass: Password123 https_option: true validate_certs_option: false Let’s face it, adding the username and password into the YAML…
If you have heard the announcements earlier this year and at VMworld 2019, you will know that VMware is embracing Terraform for VMware vCloud Director. This means that your Automation for VMware vCloud Director just got a whole heap simpler saving you time and money. What I’d like to demonstrate in this blog post is…
Have you ever had to perform a large number of vol moves in order to evacuate or decommission an aggregate? This week I had to evacuate about 50+ volumes from an aggregate that is being decommissioned. Instead of typing out the vol move command 50+ times I decided to automate it with NetApp Powershell module….
If you followed my last post where I created an Ansible Playbook to complete a full setup of a NetApp simulator, you would have seen that it was one gigantic playbook. Working with one gigantic playbook can be a little overwhelming, a little bit messy and as a result, makes it hard to reuse certain…
Last month, I decided it was time to get my hands dirty and jump right into learning some Ansible Automation with NetApp. I bookmarked a link to a blog article that was posted on NetApp.io (The Pub) that guides you through installing Ansible, updating NetApp Modules, understanding Playbooks, creating your first playbook, and lastly a…
I saved a tweet a while back from William Lam about the ability to send keystrokes to a VM via PowerCLI. The first thing that popped into mind is “Automating a nested ESXi installation”. As you could imagine this would be extremely convenient in spinning up a new VMware Lab. Last weekend was the day…