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To kick things off, I will quickly cover the prerequisites for proper server configuration and preparation. In this guide, System Center Configuration Manager will be installed on Microsoft Windows Server 2016 running as a VMware virtual machine. This server will need to be joined to a domain, and my domain controller is also running on […]
Welcome everyone, and thank you for visiting my blog. In the following series, I am going to cover the installation and configuration of System Center Configuration Manager (Current Branch) along with some of the most common roles used within SCCM. Just to give a little background as to why I decided to create this guide, […]
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. […]
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. In my previous posts (here and here), I covered how to install those on to a macOS 10.13.x “High Sierra” system and […]
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. In my previous post, I covered how to install those on to a macOS 10.13.x “High Sierra” system. In this post, I […]
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. In this post, I am going to show how to install both on to a macOS system. Let’s get to it! There are […]
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 […]
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. […]
Yesterday morning I discovered that my Synology NAS had an unexpected shutdown in the middle of the night while my homelab VMs/workloads were still running. This caused both of my Domain Controllers databases to become corrupt resulting in being unable to boot those machines. When attempting to boot them, they would get stuck in a BSOD […]
