Ansible Playbook: ESXi Maintenance Mode and Reboot

Ansible Playbook: ESXi Maintenance Mode and Reboot

In Ansible, you can run multiple tasks by grouping them under a single play. A play is a collection of tasks that target a specific set of hosts and are executed in order. In this article I would like to share couple of my Ansible Playbooks for ESXi Maintenance and Reboot. All Ansible Playbooks [..]


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What is Ansible Inventory and How to Add ESXi

What is Ansible Inventory and How to Add ESXi

Ansible Inventory is a hosts file which contains every server that is managed by Ansible. Inventory file is located in /etc/ansible/hosts on your Ansible VM. Once you add server in hosts file, you need also to establish an SSH connection using SSH key. In this article I will show you how to […]


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Part 3: Using HashiCorp Packer to build a…

Part 3: Using HashiCorp Packer to build a…

HashiCorp Packer.exe is an open source tool for building identical Virtual machine golden images for various platforms from a single source configuration. This is last and final (3rd) part of How to use HashiCorp Packer to automate and create a Windows Server Virtual Machine template on VMware […]


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Configuring VMware NSX Multi-Tenancy – nsxbaas

Configuring VMware NSX Multi-Tenancy – nsxbaas

Overview Multi-tenancy is the ability to offer NSX networking and security services to multiple tenants completely isolated from each other. Every tenant will also have its own RBAC configuration and can be assigned quotas to limit the number of objects that can be created inside a tenant.


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