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Nested vSphere Home Lab – Part 2 – Active Directory & Certificate Authority

Posted on April 23, 2023April 28, 2023 by virtualex

intro Welcome back! In my previous post, I covered the deployment and configuration of a virtual Sophos XG Firewall router appliance to provide routing services for the nested lab environment. Active Directory Next, I will cover the way I like to quickly configure my Active Directory Server and respective services.  Typically, I leverage Windows Server…

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Nested vSphere Home Lab – Part 1 – Sophos Firewall

Posted on April 23, 2023April 26, 2023 by virtualex

intro Welcome to Part 1 of my Nested vSphere Home Lab Series.  In my previous post, I went over the gist of what I plan to do for my nested Nested vSphere Home Lab.  In this post, I will cover the setup and configuration of a Sophos XG Firewall Home Edition which will serve as the…

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Nested vSphere Home Lab Series 2023

Posted on March 24, 2023April 23, 2023 by virtualex

intro Hey there!  I’d taken a hiatus from writing as my personal life got in the way…got married, had a child, and changed employer(s), just to name a few! But now I am back, I’ve rejoined VMware now as a Technical Account Manager, and I am looking forward to publishing some new content for the…

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vRealize Suite 2019 – Part 3: Installing vRealize Automation

Posted on January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 by virtualex

Intro In my previous post, I covered the configuration of VMware Identity Manager in preparation for what I will cover in this post, the installation of vRealize Automation 8.0!  This new release is a complete redesign of the product and now uses a similar codebase to vRealize Automation Cloud (formerly known as Cloud Automation Services),…

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vRealize Suite 2019 – Part 2: Configuring VMware Identity Manager

Posted on January 5, 2020January 6, 2020 by virtualex

Intro In my previous post, I covered how to install vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.0 and in the process it also deployed an instance of VMware Identity Manager aka Workspace One Access, which is a requirement for installing vRealize Automation 8.0.  I opted to skip the deployment of the latter as to keep focus on…

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vRealize Suite 2019 – Part 1: Installing vRealize Lifecycle Manager

Posted on January 4, 2020January 4, 2020 by virtualex

Intro Welcome to Part 1 of my vRealize Suite 2019 Series.  In my previous post, I went over the gist of what I plan to deploy in my nested Home Lab.  In this post, I will cover the installation of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager using the new vRealize Easy Installer released with the v8.0 of the solution….

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vRealize Suite 2019 Series

Posted on January 4, 2020January 17, 2020 by virtualex

Intro Hello, and thank you for visiting my blog! I’d decided to take some time away from writing in order to focus on my role as a Solutions Engineer at VMware, and enhance my skillset by getting more acclimated and accustomed to some of the most utilized solutions by VMware customers.  Almost one full year…

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NSX-T Home Lab – Part 6: Upgrading NSX-T

Posted on March 21, 2019March 21, 2019 by virtualex

Intro Welcome to Part 6 of my NSX-T Home Lab series.  In my previous post, I covered how to configure NSX-T networking to be able to start migrating and running workloads on the NSX-T fabric. In this post, I am going to cover the process of upgrading to the newly released version of NSX-T 2.4….

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NSX-T Home Lab – Part 5: Configuring NSX-T Networking

Posted on February 19, 2019February 22, 2019 by virtualex

Intro Welcome to Part 5 of my NSX-T Home Lab series. In my previous post, I went over the lengthy process of configuring the NSX-T fabric. In this post, I am going to cover the process of configuring the networking so we can get the logical routers and logical switches in place and ready to…

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NSX-T Home Lab – Part 4: Configuring NSX-T Fabric

Posted on February 15, 2019February 18, 2019 by virtualex

Intro Welcome to Part 4 of my NSX-T Home Lab series. In my previous post, I covered the process of deploying the NSX-T appliances and joining them to the management plane to have the foundational components ready for us to continue the configuration. In this post, I will cover all the configurations required to get…

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