Dell ECS Recall Performance (from Dell PowerScale)

The Dell ECS is an object based storage platform, in our case we are using it as an archive layer to our Dell PowerScale platform; where it provides a single-namespace file-system allowing “cooler” data to be pushed to the “cheaper”, slower Dell ECS storage freeing up the front-end storage for new data that is “hot” […]

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VMware vCenter SSO Authentication via OKTA (with SCIM User Provisioning – Locally Driven)

VMware vCenter can use a multitude of authentication methods, such as LDAP, Active Directory and SAML (ADFS), however since vCenter 8.0 U1 the ability to integrate with OKTA for authentication has been added, which allows for adding MFA (multi-factor authentication) for enhanced security and detaching the vCenter appliance from Active Directory. When switching to use […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Network Bonding – Active/Standby

Setting up network bonding between two 10Gbit NICs within a physical machine; this assumes Active-Standby bonding so a link down event on one NIC will cause the other to become Active, no LACP or switch side configuration is required in this case. The documentation assumes you are running under root, stick sudo in front of […]

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VMware Host Profile and the the option “uservars.suppressShellWarning” or “UserVars.SuppressHyperthreadWarning”

We had some older VMware hosts where there is a warning about a host being vulnerable to a particular CVE relating to the processor type, in this case the fix was not possible, but we still wanted to suppress the warning. When applying the normal Host Profile it was grumbling about this shell warning, so […]

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VMware Ansible – Getting Started Examples

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is managing infrastructure using a DevOps type methodology. Where the current configuration of your infrastructure is represented in code, any additions, changes or deletions are also made through this code. There are various methods to codify your infrastructure, some proprietary like AWS Cloudformation, others are generic like Ansible or Terraform. The […]

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