In my previous NetApp blog post, I demonstrated how to use Active Directory (AD) Authentication on my NetApp ONTAP OTS tightening up Security. A prerequisite is to have Administrator Privledges to Join vCenter to your Windows Active Directory (AD) and its a good practice to have / create a Security Group ‘VMwareAdmins’ From the Home… Read More »
In a previous blog post, I demonstrated how to deploy vCenter for my HomeLab using both a manual, along with an automated method using Ansible. To recap, my Home Lab consists of some Intel NUCs that are running NetApp Ontap Select (OTS) for storage. Make sure to check my blog on steps to build your… Read More »
One of the many benefits of having a home lab is you get to tinker and try new things. If you are like me and have had to start over from scratch, you are not alone. I can’t tell you how many times I have had to re-deployed VMware vSphere and vCenter in my lab… Read More »
I recently re-deploy my ‘Home Lab’ and decided to document the entire process. I realize there are several deployment guides on the InterWebs, but here I will be sharing some of the post-installation tasks I do after the basic install of vCenter. My Home Lab consists of some Intel NUCs that are running NetApp Ontap… Read More »