Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F+ BIOS Password Bypass
Prelude (if you just want the “how-to” scroll down) Boy oh boy. As my lab grows and grows I was receiving “Fully-automated DRS-enabled cluster has CPU contention” messages from vROPS every night and occasionally during the day. Of course for a lab it doesn’t matter much, but I do have some workloads that I care about behind NSX-T which can be touchy with contention and can yield weird results. I am...
Creating vCenter Role/Permissions with PowerCLI
Hey all – been too long! Busy as usual, but wanted to make a quick post. I have been testing NSX-T extensively and have built several nested labs in order to do so. However, I like to build out the solution as I would in a production environment which means creating an Active Directory authenticated service account for NSX-T functions. Since I have been rolling this lab around a lot I figured I’d create the role for the...
vRealize Automation – Linux username/SSH key provision during request
I wanted to share this super simple Software Component in vRealize Automation that I came up with in order to better streamline Linux deployments to end-users/developers. My vRA Linux blueprints/templates all have an administrator username and SSH key setup, but require additional users be created or scripted with automation outside of vRA. Not a huge deal, but if you want a truly hands-off solution all within vRA then you...
Need to document your environment? Check out “As Built Report”
Documentation – ew, yuck. I know, I know. However, if you work in an environment with tight change control and validation requirements then this will strike your fancy. For the longest time I’ve combined bits and pieces of various scripts and utilities such as RVTools, Alan Renouf’s vCheck Report, some aspects of vDocumentation (thanks to Ariel Sanchez’s Philly VMUG session on the topic), along with...
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I am a Sr. Systems Engineer by profession and am interested in all aspects of technology. I am most interested in virtualization, storage, and enterprise hardware. I am also interested in leveraging public and private cloud technologies such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and vRealize Automation/vCloud Director. When not working with technology I enjoy building high performance cars and dabbling with photography. Thanks for checking out my blog! 
