Background I had a requirement to implement Multi-Factor Authentication for external access to a Horizon View environment. External connections are already handled by a VMware Universal Access Gateway so it is a pretty easy task to include and enable the integration with a radius service to enable MFA. This guide […]
Background A company I was working with had a requirement to change the top-level domain of all of their public-facing presence from company.co.uk to company.com. This meant their website, Exchange e-mail and a few other bits. One of the services in the mix is an Office Online Server hooked into […]
Background When Veeam Backup and Replication 9.4 U4 was released in January 2019, it brought with it a new licensing model called Instance licensing. The marketing machine at Veeam would have you believe this is a great thing and possibly a money saver as well as getting better value from […]
Background Following an upgrade to Veeam 9.5 U4, some of my back jobs started to fail with the error, “Error: Failed to find crypto key” Solution There was not much info on the old interwebs about this, but I did stumble across a solution in this Veeam Forum post (Thanks […]
Before we begin If you have not checked out what this series is about then please take a look at the previous parts below. Part 1: Planning Part 2: Ancillary Services Part 3: Management Cluster “Hardware” Part 4: Management Cluster Software Software Defined DataCentre Manager deployment The aim of this […]
Background Whilst deploying bare metal ESXi host workloads on Oracle Ravello, I always thought it odd that you could only specify single core processors per server which results in a 4 CPU system consuming 4 socket license for VMware. When you are limited to 16 socket licenses with vExpert license […]
Before we begin If you have not checked out what this series is about then please take a look at the previous parts below. Part 1: Planning Part 2: Ancillary Services Part 3: Management Cluster “Hardware” Management Cluster Software Management cluster ESXi host install If you made it this far, […]
Before we begin If you have not checked out what this series is about then please take a look at the previous parts below. Part 1: Planning Part 2: Ancillary Services Management Cluster “Hardware”. Part way through writing this blog series, VMware released version 3.5 of VCF. From this point […]
Before we begin If you have not checked out what this series is about then please take a look at the previous parts below. Part 1: Planning Ancillary services? These are the components that are required to make VMware Cloud Foundation work but are not going to be managed by […]
Background If you have read any of my previous blog posts, you may have seen I have run a few different workload types on top of Oracle Ravellos public cloud infrastructure. As a vExpert, a nice little perk available from Ravello is 1000 CPU hours per month, for free, to use […]