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In my environment we have had some serious changes that are getting a little bit hard to keep track of. We have had quite a bit of Cisco gear getting moved around and new gear getting added. [Read More]

My environment has been subject to some complexity creep. We have multiple people building / deploying production or proudction-like VMs from templates. In my efforts to get closer to the One Deployment tool for all environments (Dev, QA, Production, etc.), I had to overcome a challenge. The challenge was that... [Read More]

Getting back to my current thoughts on deploying ESXi hosts, see my article Beyond user driven ESXi installs here, I wanted to go a little deeper into the Kickstart realm. [Read More]

I work for a company, on a team Architects which recently started to deploy servers with VMware ESXi and VMs for production builds on a larger scale. The way we install is by ISO on USB or by ISO from iLO virtual CD. This is not a bad way to... [Read More]