With vRO 8.1 and newer we can use Powershell as the runtime language for scriptable tasks and action. Let's take a look at how to assign and use variables with Powershell

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See how we can use vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager to scale an existing vRA installation from a single instance to a three-node cluster with a Load Balancer in front

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In this post we'll take a look at how we can run the light-weight and efficient Alpine Linux OS on a ESXi host running on a Raspberry Pi

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Finally the highly anticipated ESXi on ARM is available! In this post I'll run through the steps needed to get ESXi installed on a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB

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With VMworld 2020 kicking off there will be news. Some of it might be old news, but still there's news. This post will cover some of the new stuff coming to the vRealize universe and the vRealize Cloud Management platform

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In this post we'll see how we can configure our InfluxDB server to use https and how to secure the database with some authentication. We'll also update the configuration in both Telegraf and Grafana to reflect the InfluxDB change

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This post will present some finished Grafana dashboards built by using the vSphere performance data pulled by Telegraf into InfluxDB

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In this post we will take a look at rows and repeating which both is great tools for creating dynamic and interactive dashboards

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The InfluxDB query builder in Grafana is an easy way to build out queries for your graphs and panels, but there might be times where you need to dig a bit deeper and construct a more complex query. To do that you'll switch over to the Text edit mode and write your own query. Let's see how that's done

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This is a write up of the steps needed for setting up a simple Kubernetes cluster on VMs which I'm using for preparations towards the CKA exam

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