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Nested vSphere Home Lab – Part 4 – VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Deployment & Configuration

Posted on January 12, 2025January 12, 2025 by virtualex

Download the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle product binaries from the Broadcom Support portal. Mount the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Installer. Launch the installer (InstallerLite.exe) from the <Drive_Letter>:\vrlcm-ui-installer\win32-lite directory. When the VMware Aria Easy Installer launches, click INSTALL.  On the Introduction tab, click NEXT. On the End User License Agreement tab, select the checkbox to accept the…

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Nested vSphere Home Lab – Part 3 – vSphere 8.x Lab Deployment

Posted on January 6, 2024January 8, 2025 by virtualex

intro Welcome back! In my previous post, I covered the deployment and configuration of an Active Directory and Microsoft Certificate Authority server(s) for the nested lab environment. Next, I will cover the steps used to deploy the nested lab via William Lam’s Automated Nested Lab Deployment script.  This script makes it easy to deploy a…

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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

Posted on March 24, 2023January 8, 2025 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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