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Deploying a Windows VM using vRealize Automation & configuring with SaltStack Config – Part 2

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The first blog post of this two part series covered getting our vRealize Automation and SaltStack Config environments prepared, a Windows Server template prepared, and a testing a successful deployment that has the SaltStack minion installed. In this second part, we’ll now focus on setting up out state files to configure the Windows Server to … Continue reading Deploying a Windows VM using vRealize Automation & configuring with SaltStack Config – Part 2 →

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Deploying a Windows VM using vRealize Automation & configuring with SaltStack Config – Part 1

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In this two-part blog post series, I’m going to detail what I consider a basic customer use case when deploying new Windows Servers in their environment. Deploy a Windows Server Virtual Machine Add to the Active Directory Domain Install software Configure some system settings To achieve this, I’m going to use vRealize Automation to deploy … Continue reading Deploying a Windows VM using vRealize Automation & configuring with SaltStack Config – Part 1 →

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A debugging example of Salt Win-Repo issues

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The Issue I was hitting issues when trying to use the Salt Win-Repo to install software. Below is a copy of my state file. ensure_malwarebytes_installed: pkg.installed: – pkgs: – malwarebytes It would fail with the below helpful error messages. But most importantly, I’d check the minion, to find the software was actually installed. { “return”: … Continue reading A debugging example of Salt Win-Repo issues →

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VMware Cloud on AWS – Managed Tanzu Kubernetes Grid with Tanzu Mission Control

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In my previous blog post, I detailed a full end to end guide in deploying and configurating the managed Tanzu Kubernetes Service offering as part of VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC), finishing with some example application deployments and configurations. In this blog post, I am moving on to show you how to integrate this environment … Continue reading VMware Cloud on AWS – Managed Tanzu Kubernetes Grid with Tanzu Mission Control →

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CloudHealth – Configuring vRealize Operations cost visibility for your private datacenters

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In this blog post, we are going to synchronise our vRealize Operations costing information with CloudHealth, to provide the ability to have true multi-cloud cost reporting, that includes our on-premises VMware Datacenter. Configuring the CloudHeath Integration Pre-Requisites Your vRealize Operations instance will need to have the basic cost settings configured, I have written a deep … Continue reading CloudHealth – Configuring vRealize Operations cost visibility for your private datacenters →