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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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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 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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Achievement Unlocked!…vExpert 2019!

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

Wow!  This is an extremely long overdue post but better to get it out than never!! Just wanted to quickly say that I’m extremely humbled to have been awarded the VMware vExpert 2019 award for the 4th consecutive time and am honored to be among the likes of some of the smartest and passionate individuals…

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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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NSX-T Home Lab – Part 3: Deploying NSX-T Appliances

Posted on February 12, 2019February 15, 2019 by virtualex

Intro Welcome to Part 3 of my NSX-T Home Lab Series. In my previous post, I went over the process of setting up the Sophos XG firewall/router VM for my nested lab environment. In this post, we’ll cover the process of deploying the required NSX-T Appliances. There are 3 main appliances that need to be…

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NSX-T Home Lab – Part 2: Configuring ESXi VMs

Posted on January 21, 2019February 18, 2019 by virtualex

Intro Welcome to Part 2 of my NSX-T Home Lab Series.  In my previous post, I went over the installation and configuration of a Sophos XG firewall for my nested NSX-T Home Lab.  In this post, I will cover the setup and configuration of the ESXi 6.7 VMs. I recently wrote a post on how…

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NSX-T Home Lab – Part 1: Configuring Sophos XG Firewall

Posted on January 21, 2019February 15, 2019 by virtualex

Intro Welcome to Part 1 of my NSX-T Home Lab Series.  In my previous post, I went over the gist of what I plan to do for my nested NSX-T Home Lab.  In this post, I will cover the setup and configuration of a Sophos XG firewall Home Edition which will serve as the router…

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