Hey everyone, it’s been a while since I’ve posted something. But I was busy preparing myself for the VCAP deploy exam. With this post, I want to share how I prepared for the exam. Exam prep At first, I have to admit, that I really didn’t have any clue on where to start for this … More My preparation for the VCAP – DCV Deploy 2020 exam.
For me personally, it wasn’t really clear how you needed to reboot your vRA environment. Also when I followed the procedure I always had issues during startup.So to clarify the process, I’ll write an article about it, that always helps myself to better understand it (or at least I hope so 🙂 ) This is … More Rebooting your vRA environment
After you deployed your vRA environment you can start configuring it. However I would suggest to check your deployment first to see if everything is working fine. This is also a good way to determine a baseline of your environment. In case you missed my first part about the deployment you can find it here. … More Deploy vRealize Automation with Lifecycle Manager (part2) – check your deployment
Hey VMware enthusiasts, this post will show you how you can deploy vRA 7.4 with LCM 2.0Yes I know, I hear you thinking, why are you still using old versions while vRA 7.6 & LCM 2.1 is already out. Well due to a dependency on SRM I could only deploy vRA 7.4 and I wanted … More Deploy vRealize Automation with Lifecycle Manager (part 1)
Today, in part 4 we will create our ESX’es. 1. Go to the tab VMs. You need to click on the “+ sign” if you don’t see a list of available VMs to add. 2. Click on the “+ sign” next to the “Empty ESX”. 3. In the general tab we update the Name & … More How to build my ESXi Home lab in the cloud (part4) – Deploy ESX’es
In this 3rd episode we will configure our shared storage for our home lab.We will take care of that with a FreeNAS VM which is available in the Ravello repo => linkSearch for FreeNAS and click on “Add to Library”. 1. Create the FreeNAS VM 1. We go to the tab VMs. You need to … More How to build my ESXi Home lab in the cloud (part3) – Deploy FreeNAS
In this second part of my blog we’ll configure our networking and build our first windows server that will function as our DC / DNS / NTP / …. 1. Create an application 1. In your Ravello dashboard you go to Applications and click on “Create application” 2. You give your application a name and … More How to build my ESXi Home lab in the cloud (part2) – Deploy DC
Finally, I decided to get a home lab to prepare for my VMware certifications and to play around with upgrades and features. But then I realized it’s just the start of my journey. So many questions that suddenly pop-up. What do I get? How big is my budget? Do I want to pick and choose … More How to build my ESXi Home lab (part1)
A while ago I promised an article about the deployment of Lenovo Xclarity Integrator. The added value of deploying this Integrator is to do rolling firmware upgrades on your Lenovo hardware. This allows you to upgrade a complete cluster without the need to constantly check the deployment in the Xclarity Administrator. It will automatically take … More Implementing Lenovo Xclarity Integrator
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