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The automation solution focuses on two critical storage management challenges in a VMware ESXi environment. The first is automating the...

Generative AI is like super smart tech that can make text, images, and all sorts of stuff based on what it's learned. It helps with...

Idea behind this blog is to showcase all steps how we can easily migrate VMware based Windows and Linux servers to OCI native. Before we...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certificates provides organisations with certificate issuance, storage, and management capabilities,...

Deploying OCVS VM's using OCI vault secrets for credentials In this blog , i am going to deploy VM's on OCVS(Oracle Cloud Vmware...

In this Blog , we are going to use Terraform to deploy NSX-T in VMware environment. Here we first we need to prepare Terraform Environment : 1) Download Terraform : https://www.terraform.io/downloads 2) After downloading setup Terraform in Environment variable. In System path we need provide Terraform Utility path and restart windows machine after save. 3) Once we are done with above steps then we can run terraform from cmd directly. 4) First we need to create variable.tf fil

In normal scenario , we need to manually perform dell Idrac firmware upgrade on production servers or we have pushed firmware's from Dell open manager and then perform Esxi host reboot after putting in Maintenance mode and later once completed we have to exit Maintenance mode. This process is time consuming and here in this blog we are trying to automate this whole process using Python script. FlowChart Using this script we can upgrade Host Firmware with one click . Dependen

Problem Statement Our new Esxi's managment network not configured yet , only Idrac accessible and we need to ready install more than 100...

From Horizon 7.10 we are seeing Horizon REST API which is very useful in automation and reporting. Purpose of this Blog : => How to generate token in Horizon REST API => How to get information with the help of token's , this would helpful for reporting. => How to make changes using restful API's. Generate Horizon REST token: import requests requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings() import json url = "https://horzionserver/rest/login" data1 = { "username": "username", "pa

1. Monitoring of http://<license server>:7070/api/1.0/health of both the Primary and Secondary license server # Title : Python script for Monitoring NVIDIA license servers # Author : Nikhil Verma # Version : " v1.0" import requests requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings() import json url = ' http://<license server>:7070/api/1.0/health' data = [] data1 = [] response = requests.get(url,verify=False) data = response.json() data1 = data["LLS"] if response.status_code == 20

UAG appliance is used as reverse proxy for applications and provide secure connection. We can monitor UAG appliance either by API call scripts or you can create Custom monitor in AVI LB and set below python script. Here are steps to perform this : 1) Create Monitoring account in UAG's , since we have multiple UAG's so we have used script to create account in all UAG's. ==================================================================================== # Title : Python script

=> Type of Hardware. I have 4 Dell Poweredge R740 Rack server with given configuration: Intel Xeon Gold 6148 CPU. Memory Configuration Network Adaptors Attached storage NvidiaTesla M10 Graphic Card => Esxi Driver and Configuration Before Adding to Cluster Just make Sure following Firmware and Drivers up to date If your Drivers are missing , Create a Independent baseline. . Go to Update manager .Go to admin view . Select patch repository and add patch. . Then create Cust

Sometimes we have face this issue while creating instant clone pool. If you have already tried to set Esxi hosts in maintenance mode ,even set attribute instantclone.maintenance=2 but still you are facing same error. This KB if you have already followed : https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/60397 Then try this workaround : Power off your parent template , go to edit settings => VM options => Advanced => edit configuration => remove any value against this attribute "namespaceMgr.