automation

VCF 4.0 on VxRail 7.0.000 – rename cluster components with Ansible and PowerShell.

In this post, which is third of a number of posts on VCF 4 on VxRail, we wil rename default VxRail cluster components names before VCF bring-up. Once the VxRail cluster is installed and configured, a default names are assigned to the Datacenter, cluster, vDS, portgroups and vSAN Datastore in the vCenter Server inventory. Once […]

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VCF 3.9 – automate managing certificates for Cloud Foundation components using Ansible.

In VCF 3.9 we can manage certificates for all Cloud Foundation components, including configuring a certificate authority, generating and downloading CSRs, and installing them. In this post i will show you how to configure Microsoft certificate authority and create and install certificates for the following components: Platform Services Controllers vCenter Server NSX Manager SDDC Managee vRealize […]

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