Using FreeNAS as a DNS Server for your VMware vSphere Virtual Lab
This guide will show you how to install Dnsmasq on FreeNAS and configure it so that your Virtual Lab can resolve hostnames to IP addresses.
By Tony Mackay
ESXi
Install FreeNAS on VMware Fusion for use in your vSphere Virtual Lab
This guide will show you how to create a FreeNAS VM with VMware Fusion and configure it to work with ESXi so that you can test features like VMotion in your virtual lab. We will also setup multipathing and make sure failover works when an iSCSI NIC or switch fails.
By Tony Mackay
How to Deploy a VM from an OVF on ESXi 6.7
This tutorial will show you how to import an OVF onto an ESXi 6.7 host using the web client.
By Tony Mackay
How to Export a vSphere ESXi 6.7 Virtual Machine
This tutorial will show you how to export a VM as an OVF file so that you can import it into another ESXi host or system.
By Tony Mackay
Using telnet to Connect to the Serial Port of an ESXi 6.7 VM
Some virtual machines like router/firewall appliances can be configured with telnet by connecting to the serial port of the VM. This post will demonstrate how to connect to the Serial Port of a Juniper VCP appliance running on ESXi 6.7.
By Tony Mackay
Building a VMware vSphere Virtual Lab with VMware Fusion - Part 8
This is the last part in a series of tutorials on how to build a VMware vSphere Virtual Lab on a Mac with VMware Fusion. In this tutorial, we'll create a virtual web server and use pfSense to forward traffic to it.
By Tony Mackay
Automate Let's Encrypt Certificate Install on VMware vSphere ESXi
This post will show you how to use Ansible to generate a Let's Encrypt certificate and deploy it to multiple ESXi hosts in your cluster with one simple command.
By Tony Mackay
How to Connect to an ESXi host with Ansible
This guide shows you how to prepare an ESXi host, so that Ansible can be used with SSH Key-Based Authentication to automate administration tasks.
By Tony Mackay
Building a VMware vSphere Virtual Lab with VMware Fusion - Part 7
This is the seventh part in a series of tutorials on how to build a VMware vSphere Virtual Lab on a Mac with VMware Fusion. In this tutorial, we'll create a vSphere Distributed Switch and migrate port groups from a standard vSwitch to it.
By Tony Mackay
Building a VMware vSphere Virtual Lab with VMware Fusion - Part 6
This is the sixth part in a series of tutorials on how to build a VMware vSphere Virtual Lab on a Mac with VMware Fusion. In this tutorial, we'll configure vMotion and enable DRS.
By Tony Mackay