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September 28, 2020

SDDC.Lab v2

Back in April I published a post about my GitHub repository containing Ansible scripts that perform automated deployment of nested vSphere/NSX-T lab environments. A lot has happened during the last 5 months and now that we’re close to making version… Continue reading

July 27, 2020

Automate Ubuntu Server 20.04 Installation with Ansible

And now something completely different. Recently, while working on a project, I had to come up with a way to automate Ubuntu Server 20.04 VM installations on vSphere. Utilizing Ubuntu’s new autoinstall method together with some Ansible code I managed… Continue reading

April 19, 2020

NSX-T 3.0 RBAC With Active Directory Identity Source

It’s finally here. NSX-T 3.0 adds support for Active Directory identity sources to be used with NSX-T role-based access control. This will make life a little easier for many customers. Previously, a separate VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) virtual appliance was… Continue reading