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Lightweight DNS Server for Home or Test Lab

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Details: Published: Friday, 06 July 2018 14:15; Written by Burke Azbill

A power outage recently made a mess of my home lab due to a resulting issue with VSAN. As a result, I needed to setup a fresh Virtual Center Server Appliance (VCSA), but my DNS server was on the VSAN! vCenter now requires working DNS resolution during install... What to do??

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Please share your code at the Sample Exchange

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Details: Published: Monday, 19 March 2018 20:11; Written by Burke Azbill

Last week, I was leading discussions at a Technical session for VMware's internal TechSummit event in Toronto, Canada. During one of the discussions, we ended up on the topic of where and how we were storing workflows and packages we had developed. I was a bit surprised that people in the room had workflows and packages in GitHub repos but weren't aware of some aspects of the Sample Exchange at the VMware Code site!

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How to create a Microsoft DNS Dynamic Types plug-in ?

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Details: Published: Wednesday, 01 November 2017 15:14; Written by Christophe Decanini

On the VMware blog I have explained how vRealize Automation Anything as a Service (XaaS) work with Orchestrator and how a vRO plug-in works.

In this tutorial I will walk you through how I managed to implement Microsoft DNS as a service I used for the screenshot examples on that blog including:

The Microsoft DNS dynamic types plug-in
DNS record as a service in vRA
DNS record as a blueprint component

This is the first public tutorial on how to create a Dynamic Types plug-in from scratch and the overall methodology used applies to other integrations.

How to update a Resource Element Script's Contents using curl

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Details: Published: Sunday, 16 April 2017 09:30; Written by Burke Azbill

In a previous article, I taught you How to retrieve a script Resource from vRO via curl. That can be helpful to some people, but how about updating that script? Easy! Read on...

How to retrieve a script Resource from vRO via curl

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Details: Published: Friday, 14 April 2017 02:11; Written by Burke Azbill

I recently spent time with a customer doing a vRO workshop with them. During the course of the workshop, I was asked how you could retrieve a script that had been stored as a resource element on a vRO server using curl. Well, I had never done that before so I set out to figure it out and was able to provide the solution before I left! Throughout this article, I will be using a vRA 7.2 embedded vRO. The biggest difference here is only the port that we use to access the API. For embedded, it is 443 and standalone vRO uses 8281.

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Nuc Nuc Nuc - vSAN !

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Details: Published: Wednesday, 28 December 2016 21:40; Written by Burke Azbill

In a previous article, I noted that I had won an i3 NUC at VMworld in Barcelona. After playing with that for a few days and helping Alan Renouf test his Home Lab Deployment script, I decided I wanted to have a full 3 node cluster - but with the i5 Processor ... so, I went shopping!

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How to Disable Storage I/O Stats Collection with PowerCLI or vRO

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Details: Published: Thursday, 08 December 2016 18:17; Written by Burke Azbill

I recently came across a thread asking about how to disable Storage I/O Statistics Collection using PowerCLI. The thread referenced this article by Michael Webster: Disable SIOC IO Metrics Collection For Auto Tiering Storage Systems . In one of the comments, someone asked about using PowerCLI.. Unfortunately there was no answer there so I thought - I might be able to figure this out! With regards to checking that box, I can't say whether it's a good idea or not, my purpose here was just to illustrate how to do it via PowerCLI and vRO.

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Lightweight DNS Server for Home or Test Lab

Please share your code at the Sample Exchange

How to create a Microsoft DNS Dynamic Types plug-in ?

How to update a Resource Element Script's Contents using curl

How to retrieve a script Resource from vRO via curl

Nuc Nuc Nuc - vSAN !

How to Disable Storage I/O Stats Collection with PowerCLI or vRO

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