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Automation
VMware Event Broker Appliance VEBA tutorial: How to create an email notification
Among the really cool projects I have stood up in the lab as of recently is the VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA). If you have not heard about VEBA and you are looking to take your vCenter notifications and automation…
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Kubernetes
Create Kubernetes Cluster with Rancher and VMware vSphere
How is your Kubernetes journey kicking off in 2022? While Kubernetes is already wildly popular it is feeling more like 2022 and beyond is going to be the year that modernized applications are going to really take off in the…
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Kubernetes
Rancher connect to existing cluster
One of the challenges with working with plain Kubernetes is the number of low-level management tasks that must be handled using the command line, specifically with the kubectl command. While I am a huge fan of the command line and…
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Kubernetes
Terraform vSphere Kubernetes automated lab build in 8 minutes
While Kubernetes has been wildly popular for quite some time now, I think many are just starting their journey of learning Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. If you are like me, you have goals of sharpening your Kubernetes skills in 2022.…
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Security
Patch two new Active Directory privilege escalation bugs
If Log4j wasn’t enough, Microsoft has upped the alert on two new Active Directory bugs that now have a PoC tool in the wild. What are the new Active Directory bugs that need attention from enterprise customers? Let’s take a…
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Security
Easy vCenter Server two-factor authentication without ADFS
One of the new features added in vSphere 7 is the new identity federation component that allows organizations to point vCenter Server to an external identity source for the authentication workflow. This adds new possibilities for multi-factor authentication. However, currently,…
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Security
VMware Horizon Log4j patch workaround
The fallout from the Log4j vulnerability continues to make ripples across organizations at the time of year when the last thing many want to hear about is a major security bug. Nonetheless, businesses are having to scramble to remediate and…
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Security
VMware vCenter Server Log4j patch script remediation process
In case you haven’t heard, Apache Log4j is arguably the biggest vulnerability found across the board since Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities were disclosed, due to the sheer scope of the vulnerability. It is found everywhere and unfortunately, is found across a large…
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Software Defined Storage
DIY fibre channel SAN with High Availability using StarWind VSAN
Many organizations have long used fibre channel as their preferred storage platform of choice. While iSCSI and other protocols have dominated markets over the past decade or so, fibre channel is still alive and prevalent in many enterprise datacenters. Many…
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Security
Configure Pi-hole SSL using a self-signed certificate
I have been playing around a lot with Pi-hole lately. If you are new to Pi-hole and what it can do, take a look at my blog post here on how to Install Pi-hole in Ubuntu 21.04. If you are…
