Martez Reed- 06 Sep, 2023
VMware NSX+ Overview - Tech Field Day Extra
VMware recently presented at the Tech Field Day Extra event during VMware Explore 2023. The presentation covered VMware’s networking and …
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Martez Reed
- 27 Aug, 2021
VMware vSphere VM iPXE Boot without DHCP
Network booting operating systems isn’t a new concept and has been around for years. Bare metal deployments are typically where network booting is …
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Martez Reed
- 12 Feb, 2021
Creating a VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) Golang Function
The VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) fling is a really interesting project that enables administrators to take advantage of event driven …
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Martez Reed
- 26 Nov, 2019
Puppet Bolt Vault Inventory Plugin
In this blog post we’ll look at the HashiCorp Vault plugin for Puppet Bolt that enables authentication credentials for Bolt to be retrieved from …
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Martez Reed
- 06 Aug, 2019
Advanced VMware vSphere Template Orchestration
Template management is a critical facet of infrastructure management and traditionally one of the more challenging operations there is. The advent of …
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Martez Reed
- 13 Oct, 2017
vSphere Immutable Infrastructure with Terraform
What is immutable infrastructure? Immutable infrastructure is the concept of utilizing an infrastructure component in an ephemeral manner. This means …
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Martez Reed
- 30 Jun, 2017
vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) and PostgreSQL Database SSL
In a previous post we walked through configuring a PostgreSQL database server as the external database for our vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) cluster. In …
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Martez Reed
- 26 Jun, 2017
vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) Cluster with a PostgreSQL Database
In this post we’re going to build out a two node vRealize Orchestrator cluster with a PostgreSQL database. VMware is deprecating support for …
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Martez Reed
- 26 May, 2017
vRA 7.2 dynamic property list from REST API
In this post we’re going to walk through how to dynamically populate a vRA request field using values retrieved from a REST API using vRO. A …
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Martez Reed
- 01 May, 2017
vRealize Automation 7.2 hardening compliance with vRO and Splunk
In this post we’ll walk through how we can utilize vRealize Orchestrator and Splunk to determine how compliant our vRA appliance is with the …
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Martez Reed
- 07 Apr, 2017
vRO - Building a dynamic drop-down for vSphere tags
A recent blog post by Rob Nelson about using vRO to provision VMs with vSphere tags …
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Martez Reed
- 17 Feb, 2017
vRA7 Chatops with StackStorm
ChatOps is a pretty cool and still emerging technology that allows users to initiate actions on external systems from within a messaging platform such …
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Martez Reed
- 09 Feb, 2017
Puppet Policy Based Autosigning with vRA7
What is Policy Based Autosigning A critical aspect of any Puppet deployment is determining how we want to allow nodes to get their certificate signed …
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Martez Reed
- 03 Feb, 2017
vSphere Alarms with Slack and StackStorm
Being notified of when something happens in your environment has always been important and has evolved over time from basic emails to IM messages via …