Category: Vmware
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VMware To Proxmox VE Migration Via Ansible And Ascender
Once we choose a system, we often feel married to it. The idea of migrating our infrastructure often seems more expensive than the new price the vendor just handed us for what we are using. I’ve felt/seen this with software, cloud providers, and hypervisors. While this can be the truth at first glance, automation can…
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Automating VMware Alternatives With Ansible And Ascender
Automating VMware Alternatives With Ansible And Ascender I have personally used and had good success with VMware for nearly two decades. While it is a good product, I occasionally have folks talk about some alternatives, and how viable they are. For this article/demo I’m going to use Proxmox VE, which is a competent/user friendly hypervisor.…
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“Build And Replace” Linux Migration Via Ansible, Ascender, AWX, AAP
Migrating from one Linux major version to another never seems to be a simple task, but through the magic of automation, it can be a lot simpler and reproducible. I’m going to cover the Ansible playbooks I created to do the work, then I’ll execute it using our enterprise automation platform called Ascender. Our recommended…
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Nexus 9K or NXOS 9000 failed. trying to read config file from on VMWare
When trying to load a Nexus OVA in my lab VMWare cluster I was getting the “failed. trying to read config file” every time I reloaded the switch. I figured out I needed to add a single line to the config: boot nxos bootflash:/nxos.9.2.4.bin My full base config is: hostname nexus9k-template no password strength-check ip…
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Resize Windows Disk On VMWare Via Ansible Automation Platform
I really like having little bite sized demos, though some argue telling a big story works best…I suppose a mix of the two is likely the real solution. This demo shows the Ansible Automation Platform(AAP) connecting to VMware Vcenter to expand a disk on a windows host. AAP then connects to the disk and expands…
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CI/CD With VMWare And Ansible
My colleague and good friend, Jimmy Conner, gave me a demonstration on CI/CD with VMWare, so I did the only logical thing…and copy his presentation. He also contributed some of the playbooks to make it all happen, so big thanks to him! What is CI/CD and why should I care? I’ll keep this short as…
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ServiceNow Orders VMWare VMs Via Ansible Tower
This is a quick demo that orders a server in ServiceNow, then once approved it calls Ansible Tower which then provisions VMs in VMWare. This is built using this ansible blog post that shows how to tie together ServiceNow and Ansible Tower. Video Demo ServiceNow First thing to do is create the OAuth connection between…