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Continuing the work on the phpipam integration with vRA from Part 1, this post will walk you through what I did to “unwind” the process. Or rather, the retirement and recovery of IP Address(es). Use Case Review Let’s review the use case once more. I wanted to automatically allocate and assign the next free IP […]
This article will cover my process of providing an IPAM integration to my vRA 8.3 homelab deployment. For most of my customers, they have commercial grade IPAM solutions, like Infoblox, Bluecat, etc, that provides DDI services. (I will say that while I have seen the acronym DDI repeatedly, I took the time to look it […]
This part of my homelab rebuild will touch on something interesting… storage options. Knowing that my lab is going to be a couple levels of nesting, I wanted to look at the different options that are out there. For years, I have had and use a Synology DS 1512+ storage array. This thing has been […]
First, I would like to declare: “vCloud Director is NOT dead!” I can say emphatically, this product did not die, never died, and I don’t believe that it is going to die! It is still actively being developed by VMware. With this clarified, let’s move on to getting vCD stood up. Again, I followed along […]
While I am an avid supporter of encryption and security, I do have to admit… getting the dreaded HSTS error within the Chrome browser sucks. When this happens, one of the quickest easiest “hacks” (tips!) to bypass it is to just type “badidea” on your keyboard. And voila! HSTS is bypassed. I learned of this […]