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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 […]
If you haven’t made the jump to vSphere 5.1, then you may want to try this new fling out (vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check Script) from Alan Renouf before upgrading. (*description borrowed from the Fling’s website) This fling is a PowerShell script that when run will help customers validate their environment and assess if it is […]
Last week I had performed a semi-automatic (scripted) turn key installation. Before going out to the customer site, I had set the install script to set the SATP and the PSP for an Equallogic Array (SATP = VMW_SATP_EQL, PSP = DELL_PSP_EQL_ROUTED) during the installation. Unfortunately, I found out after the fact, that they had a […]
Each Saturday my company does a refresh of a few different machines. This refresh consists of cloning a couple of production machines into our lab environment for development. It’s a very tedious process that takes the entire day to do. Until recently, this process has been done manually. I’ve been working on a script to […]