2018 on iThinkVirtual™

Achievement Unlocked!...vExpert 2018!

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:59:41 -0400

I am extremely humbled to have been awarded the VMware vExpert 2018 award for the 3rd consecutive time and am honored to be amongst the likes of some of the smartest and passionate individuals in the vCommunity! I’m vExpert #1301 as per my public directory page.

VMware Software Manager: The Good...The Bad...The Alternative!

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 18:00:51 -0500

In this post, I am going to discuss a little, “not-so-well-known” utility, called VMware Software Manager. This little “beast” was first released as v1.0 back on 2015-03-12, and its most current release, v1.5, came out on 2016-08-25. So as you can see, it’s been quite a while since this tool has seen a new update release. The problem now is that this utility seems to have been forgotten and/or neglected by VMware, but I will get into more of that a little later. Let’s start off with the positive stuff.

Install PowerShell and VMware PowerCLI on Ubuntu

Sun, 04 Mar 2018 20:55:41 -0500

Just a few days ago, PowerShell Core v6.0 was released for Windows, Linux, and macOS systems. Alongside this release came the release of VMware PowerCLI 10.0.0.78953 which is VMware’s own “PowerShell-like” utility.

Install PowerShell and VMware PowerCLI on CentOS

Sun, 04 Mar 2018 18:27:18 -0500

Install PowerShell and VMware PowerCLI on macOS

Sun, 04 Mar 2018 05:57:43 -0500

Deploy A Virtual Appliance Using PowerCLI

Sun, 04 Feb 2018 22:53:08 -0500

Hello all and thank you for visiting my blog! In today’s post, I am going to cover how to deploy a VMware virtual appliance (.ova) using PowerCLI. “Why?” you asked? Well, because scripting and automation via PowerCLI is fun and awesome! Sure, it’s simple enough to deploy an appliance natively within the vSphere Web Client by selecting the .ova that you’d like to import, press a few mouse clicks, enter some info, and off you go! But who wants to do stuff the easy way? It takes the fun away!

vSphere…Synology…NFS v4.1

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 03:39:14 -0500

Welcome, and thanks for visiting my blog!

In this post, I am going to cover how to enable NFS v4.1 on a Synology device and then mount and NFS v4.1 datastore in VMware vSphere 6.5. By default, Synology devices support NFS v4 natively, and although they can also support NFS v4.1, it is not enabled. Well, not to worry because I am going to show you just how to enable the feature on your device.

Homelab Makeover 2.0

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 01:20:14 -0500

Hello and first off, thank so much for visiting my blog! If you have followed any part of my “Homelab” series, you will be familiar with the components that make up my home “Datacenter”. If not, take some time to catch up on those posts!