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Renewing the STS cert in VCenter
The STS cert is used by vcenter to authenticate against external SSO targets, such as Okta or ActiveDirectory, and it’s a key service for various other services – like the Web UI! The fun part about STS is that it’s autogenerated at some point (probably during install or upgrade), and it will expire 2 years…
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Creating a new VM on ESXi
Creating a new VM on ESXi is pretty easy! I love the web-based client that’s available on 6.7.0, so that’s where we’ll go. I do realize the product is also called vSphere Hypervisor, but it used to be, and in a few places, is still called ESXi, so I’m going to stick with that name…
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Getting started with ESXi
In this longer post, we’ll get started with ESXi, how to install it and login. ESXi is meant to run as the OS, and to be very minimal so there’s as much resources as possible available for the guest OS’s. Even the install is very spartan! Lucky for us, however, it is fairly straight forward…
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Getting started with VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a great virtualization tool if you plan on running VMs on your regular desktop. For this post, we’ll get started with Virtualbox by creating a new VM and booting off of an ISO. As a preparation for a future post, I’m actually going to install ESXi within VirtualBox. ESXi is meant to run…
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Getting started on my mini-lab
As part of my motivation to do more, I’ve started on my new home-lab. As mentioned on a previous post, this is all running off of an inexpensive Dell desktop! You really don’t need much hardware to start with, just enough to run 2-3 vms (or even just one!). It kind of depends on how…
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Not a minute to waste!
Ok, so I’ve been really excited about this “deployment automation” stuff! That’s not really new, though. I’ve been trying to implement some form of database source control for a few years now, with minimal success. The reasons are various: The tools aren’t all that great. That’s not really their fault, though. There’s not really a…