My Terraform adventures continue! In my last post, I covered how to provision a VM on vCloud Director with the help of Terraform. I’m just at the beginning of my IaC journey, but I already see the benefits of using this method to deploy infrastructure. The main advantage of using IaC is that you easily can re-use the code on multiple similar projects. When you start a new project, it’s just a matter of copying your codebase and modifying it to fit the current project.
One of the things I enjoy the most in life is to learn new exciting stuff, the part I like the most is how to create. Whether it’s in the physical world such as carpentry or homebrewing(I love to brew beer!), or if it’s in the virtual computer world where I like to create infrastructure. On the other hand, I also enjoy sharing that knowledge with other people! In this post, I’ll share how to create a virtual machine in a software-defined data center(running vCloud Director) with the help of Terraform.
You are a VMware Administrator. In your data center, there’s a vSphere 6.0 cluster running rock-solid! But, with the 6.0 end of support coming up March 12, 2020, you’re forced to look into the newer version of vSphere. You may have noticed that there’s been a couple of improvements and new features since 6.0 came out. In this post, I’ll walk you through the feature called Proactive HA, released in 6.
If you’re like me, eager to learn and absorb all of the knowledge, you need to have a couple of useful blogs to follow. In this post, I list 5 of my favorite NetApp blogs that I follow regularly.
IOPS.ca This blog by Chris Maki is easy to consume with it’s relatively short and relevant posts. This blog focus on NetApp products and features.
Why do you like WAFLs? This blog is, in my opinion, the best place to learn fundamental concepts of SAN, NAS & ONTAP.
A couple of days ago, the yearly NetApp partner event in Sweden took place. When I got the invitation, I immediately accepted. But, days before, my kids got both chicken-pox and otitis at the same time, I was forced to cancel.
The day after the event took place, I got an email from one of the organizers that I did win the “Influencer of the Year”-award.
Although I’m regretful that I couldn’t attend, I’m incredibly grateful to be recognized for my efforts!
First of all, I would like to thank everyone that attended our first VMUG event in Sweden. Also, a BIG thank you to our sponsors!
At first, I was troubled that everyone would be no-shows. Then, I got overwhelmed at how many that showed up! When we had our first meeting planning the event, we had a plan and conference room for about ten people, but we were roughly 35 attendees!
I’ve stepped out of the certification room, super excited to have passed the NS0-509 exam. It was a challenge! I did pass the NCSA (NS0-160) exam before the summer, so I had some experience in how the NetApp certification program works. I’ll share my experience with the NS0-509 exam in this blog post.
Let me give you some background about myself. I started working with storage in about 2015 as a VMware admin.
I am proud to announce myself as a VMUG Leader in the Sweden Community! The journey has just started, and we’ve planned our first event in October! I’m super excited to be a part of the community and to lead the local group forward!
Read more about the event at the community event page.
Yesterday I received the welcome package from VMware, and I’m happy to share with you what I got!
When you’ve configured your vCenter Server Appliance to be a subordinate certificate authority, the VAMI interface at https://vcenter:5480 doesn’t use the new certificate, and it uses a self-signed certificate. In this post, I show you how to resolve this.
First, SSH into the vCSA and locate the certificate file you signed at your CA for the vCSA appliance, it should be named something like vmca.crt or vmca.cer.
Copy and rename that file:
Often when we set up vSphere environments, there are already some things running. Sometimes it may be an Active Directory domain with DNS, NTP, CA, and all that setup. However, if you’re setting up a completely new environment, none of that may exist. What should you do then? We’ll cover all of that in this post.
People often discard the importance of core services. For example, they install vSphere with static entries in the host file instead of using a DNS server.
