Before we begin If you have not checked out Part 1 of this series, please click here to see what this project is about. Ancillary services? These are the components that are required to make VMware Cloud Foundation work but are not going to be managed by the Software Defined […]
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 […]
Background I have been evaluating Multi-Factor Authentication solutions recently and came across Duo on my travels. One of the things that grabbed my attention with Duo, in particular, was the free access tier for up to 10 users for personal use. Great! I have also had a niggling issue with my […]
Say what now? What I don’t want this post to come across as is a Hey look at me type of post. It is not. Instead, I want to share my journey into the vCommunity over the last couple of years and share with you some of the great groups and resources […]
Background Now let me start with this. Yes, this is another one of those upgrade blogs, yes I updated to 6.7U1 on day one of the release. This update is however in my lab environment. I do not care if it breaks, its a lab after all. Do not blindly […]
Background Once upon a time, you were able to download a nice MSI distributable of Azure AD PowerShell module, but alas this has since been pulled in favor of downloading the modules directly in PowerShell. There are a few items to consider though before you can install AzureAD PowerShell module. […]
Background I recently expanded my Veeam for Office 365 deployment to protect additional organisations but it struck me that I had no idea how much data I needed to protect from Office 365! If this was on-premises Exchange or SharePoint data, I could have looked at the database sizes to get an […]
Protecting Office 365 A common misconception when moving resources such as Exchange e-mail or SharePoint to Office 365 is that the Microsoft will take care of the data backups for you. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Yes, Microsoft will have you covered if they have an issue with their […]
Background After the initial install of a couple of the vRealize products, Log Insight, and Operations, I wanted to remove the annoying warning about the default self-signed certificates not being trusted. I am running a Windows PKI, so will use this to issue replacement certificates. Both Log Insight and Operations follow […]
Background. Some of you may have read my guide on deploying Nutanix CE 5.5 onto bare metal Oracle Ravello. Well as tends to happen, software is updated and now is the time to look to upgrade to the next Nutanix CE release which is based on Acropolis Operating System 5.6. I […]