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 […]
Background. Veaam announced their upcoming Nutanix Acropolis Hyper-Visor support a few months ago and since then there have been various internal betas available for testing, one of which I demoed in this online presentation. The latest Beta is near feature complete so I thought it would be great to share what […]
Background. I recently moved my vSAN 6.6 cluster from VCSA 6.5 to VCSA 6.7 which I detailed in this blog post. The next item on the list was to upgrade to the latest version of vSAN, 6.7. My lab is overly simplified compared to most production environments, so it would […]
Background. A little bit of background for you folks, I wrote a blog post a little while ago on how to deploy a 6.5 VCSA appliance onto Oracle Ravello bare metal. On the back of this, I followed the vMusketeers excellent guide on creating a vSAN cluster on Oracle Ravello. […]
Background. If you are not familiar with the concept of an application in Ravello, it is a grouping of virtual machines that run in a defined region (notice I avoided saying container there, could become even more confusing). A region is a geographic location where there are compute resources available. Pretty […]