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vSphere API Example for Testing Guest Credentials
While experimenting with the vSphere API using the Python pyvmomi SDK, I was wondering if there is any way to test guest credentials after I have reset a user password, so the main idea is to automate...
View ArticleChanging the vSphere Web Client Display Language – English
Almost everyone in the technical field is comfortable with using the English language for their daily tasks. As you know, managing future version of VMware vSphere will only be possible with the Web...
View ArticleStart-ttys main process (8475) terminated with status 1
I had a trouble with a Linux box after we lost access to our storage array, the system switched to a read only file system. Everything stopped working, no command was recognized, no possibility to...
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Zoning an ESXi to an XtremIO Storage Array
The task is relatively easy if you have some background on storage but I wanted to take note of it in this blog post as I don’t do this on a daily basis. Once you connect your ESXi to the storage array...
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Honored To Be Awarded a vExpert 2017!
Well I wasn’t expecting this one! For me it’s an honor to be awarded a VMware vExpert 2017. I’m taking it as an encouragement to continue and provide great work for the community, with a busy schedule...
View ArticleHow To Change The CPU governor
Performance tunning is one of the most exciting and complicated subject at the same time, it’s complicated because if you change one setting it might affect the others so you must have a deep...
View ArticleHow to Use Special Characters on a Virtual Machine Console
The virtual machine console won’t allow you to write some special characters using some keyboard layout. As stated by this VMware KB 2071245. On my French keyboard, I was able to bypass this limitation...
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Password Complexity and Account Lockout
This will be a brief blog post on how to use pam module on CentOS or Red hat 6.x to enforce password complexity and account lockout, the account locking will also be enabled through ssh. You can use...
View ArticlePowershell/PowerCLI: using filter to disconnect all attached cdrom
Here is a simple and effective PowerShell/PowerCLI script to extract all virtual machines that have an iso attached to their cdrom and then disconnect them. I have used a filter on the first part of...
View ArticleEX436 Exam Experience: Red Hat High Availability Clustering
Well, I successfully took my Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in High Availability Clustering exam (EX436) on 10 November to renew my existing RHCE certification. Through this post I will share my...
View Article[ Script ] How To Backup and Restore Directory Permissions on Linux Machines
There is many ways to backup and restore on Linux machines, but when you have a specific need you must use some sort of scripting, don’t rely on tools because i think this get you stuck in thinking...
View ArticleSetting Delegation on Active Directory OU
While working on one of my project about automating SQL AlwaysOn cluster installation and configuration, i come across a requirement where I needed to setup a delegation for the group that contain the...
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Removing an Element from an Array
In PowerShell, you can’t remove an element from an array even if the array object have a method remove, if you try to do it anyway, it will throw a NotSupportedException. The solution is to use...
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How Much Complexity Can You Handle With Calm?
It’s power in its simplicity, simple to use doesn’t mean it can’t handle complex automation scenario. Think of this, you use some automation tool to deploy some resources, most of the case, you deploy...
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Avi Network Integration With Nutanix Calm
This will be a short blog post that show how easily you can integrate Avi Network solution (Avi Vantage) with Nutanix Calm. I also provide a video demo and the source code used at the end of this...
View ArticleCould not detect which major revision of yum is in use
If you are working with Ansible and trying to run a playbook on a remote Linux machine, you may get the following error: ..... fatal: [***.***.***.***]: FAILED! => { "changed": false, "msg": [...
View ArticleAWX Installation: Failed to import the required Python library
During AWX installation (which is the equivalent of tower for managing Ansible using the graphical interface) I got stopped with the following error: TASK [local_docker : Start the containers]...
View ArticleUnable To Remove a Bridge From an AHV Host
Incorrect bridge configuration on an AHV host can break a lot of functionalities, even if your cluster show nothing abnormal and all data replication is OK. If you go through the Prism interface and...
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How To Synchronize Your Forked GitHub Project
In this short video, I’ll explain how to update/synchronize you forked project with an upstream repository. Sometimes, you would like to keep some libraries up-to-date from the source project while...
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What is a VPC Interface Endpoint
In this video, I’ll explain: The concept of an AWS VPC interface endpoint How to create an endpoint How to use it for secure communications. My objective is to simplify the concept as much as...
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