How to install pip on RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 ?
Pip is a platform independent package management software. Pip stands for “Pip Installs Packages”. The Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) maintains many of the python relevant projects. The software...
View ArticleOrigin (OpenShift) Deployment in VM – All in One for LAB
How to Deploy Openshift in VM quickly? Is it possible to configure all the Openshift components in one node? How to experience the real Openshift web UI? Openshift is one of the Kubernetes’s variants...
View ArticleAnsible – Executing sequence of commands using Shell Module
How to execute a sequence of ansible commands in a single task using shell or command module? Its quite often needed to run a sequence of commands irrespective of the results. If you would like to...
View Articlegovmomi – Installing and configuring govc-cli for vSphere
govmomi is a “Go” library for interacting with VMware vSphere APIs (ESXi and/or vCenter) and it’s built using VMware vSphere SDK. govmomi project has more than 1000 GitHub stars and used by many...
View ArticleJenkins- Ansible -Authenticate Server using Protected Passphrase
Ansible is the most widely used configuration management tool. A recent challenge was to authenticate the servers using a protected passphrase. We have a set of servers which can be authenticated only...
View ArticleHow to Boost Ansible playbook Speed ?
How to increase the ansible playbook execution speed? One who is running the playbook against more than 100 hosts could witness the slowness if it’s not fine-tuned. Ansible has few configurable...
View ArticleVMware vSAN Lab – How to Create Fake SSD on VMware workstation?
VMware vSAN is a hyper-converged, widely used software-defined storage for a VMware vSphere environment. Using Nested virtualization, Many of us will try to practice vSAN Lab on VMware Workstation. In...
View ArticleVMware vSphere – How to Remove Host from HA ?
How to remove ESXi node from vSphere HA? VMware vSphere HA (High Availablity) enables a server administrator to aggregate physical servers on the same to create a logical group called a high...
View ArticleAnsible reboot module – Shutdown Command Not found on Linux
Ansible is a widely used configuration management tool. Opensource community and RedHat aggressively developing to create modules for each task. In Ansible 2.7, reboot module is responsible to reboot...
View ArticleVMware vSphere – How to Change VCSA 6.x IP address ?
How to change VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance) 6.x IP address? VMware vSphere 6.7 U1 is the last version which offers Windows-based vCenter Server. Going forward, we must start adapting in-house vCenter...
View ArticleVMware vSphere 6.x – Remove node from vSAN cluster
How to safely evacuate the node from the vSAN cluster on VMware vSphere? VMware vSAN is one of the low-cost storage solutions for startups and mid-size companies. vSAN eliminates the need of Fibre...
View ArticleVMware vSphere – How to break VCSA 6.5/6.7 root password ?
How to recover the lost vCenter Server Appliance(VCSA 6.5 & above) root password? The vCenter Server Appliance is a preconfigured Linux virtual machine. vSphere 6.7 U1 is the last release to...
View ArticleVMware vSphere – How to identify Distributed Switch ID / Portgroupkey ?
VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) provides a centralized interface to manage the virtual machine’s network for the entire datacenter. Unlike vSphere Standard Switch (VSS), Distributed Switch...
View ArticleRVTools 3.11.9 – Simple VMware vSphere Reporting Tool
RVTools is one of the promising reporting tools for VMware vSphere since 2008. It’s a windows based tool which requires .NET 4.6.1 framework to pull the virtual environments information using VI SDK....
View ArticleVirtualization & Hypervisor – Basic Interview Questions
Virtualization helps to decouple the Operating systems and applications from the hardware layer. Virtualization is the process of creating a virtual or software-based representation like a virtual...
View ArticleGlobal Business Intelligence Market to be Worth $147.19 Billion in 2025
Global Business Intelligent Market A recent report from insight generator Market Watch predicts that the global business intelligence market will enjoy a compounded annual growth rate of 26.98% in the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure – Install and Configure Azure CLI on Redhat/CentOS
Microsoft Azure is one of the leading cloud service providers in the market. Azure is an industry leader in IaaS and PaaS service cloud. Azure CLI is a command-line interface for managing most of the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure – How to Access Windows Servers Console ?
How to access Windows servers console on Azure Cloud ? We had challenge to get the instance’s console on Azure in the past. Now, Azure offers text-based console for windows server instances using COM1...
View ArticleAzure – How to Convert disk from premium to standard SSD – Vice-versa
Azure offers four disk types of managed disks and we can choose any type based on the business needs. Azure provides an option to switch between the three GA disk types premium SSD, standard SSD, and...
View ArticleAutomation – Add DNS A Record using Ansible Playbook
DNS resource records added automatically when windows instances is registered on domain. For Linux instances, you have to add the records manually on DNS server. Let’s explorer that how to create A...
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