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My Automated Lab project: #5 Deploy a Linux vSphere VM with Terraform and custom disks

Luca Dell'Oca, October 17, 2023October 17, 2023

After deploying a Windows VM in the previous article, this time I will deploy a Linux VM to be used as a Veeam Hardened Repository. Since I need some more space for storing the backup, I will use this opportunity to create the VM with a additional disks.

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My Automated Lab project: #4 Deploy the VMs from templates using Terraform

Luca Dell'Oca, October 10, 2023October 6, 2023

After I have created my templates with Packer in the previous posts, I can now use them every time as a quick source for creating my own virtual machines. Thanks to Terraform, I’ll be able to deploy each new vm in a matter of minutes, and also to customize each of them as I need.

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My Automated Lab project: #3 Create a Windows Server 2019 template in VMware vSphere with Packer

Luca Dell'Oca, October 3, 2023September 26, 2023

In my previous post I’ve created a Ubuntu template into VMware vSphere using Packer. Time to build now a Microsoft Windows template.

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My Automated Lab project: #2 Create a Ubuntu template in VMware vSphere with Packer

Luca Dell'Oca, September 26, 2023September 23, 2023

In my previous post I explained the tools I use in my lab automation. Today, we’ll talk about creating Ubuntu templates into VMware vSphere. For this, I will use Packer.

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My Automated Lab project: #1 Install and configure the needed tools

Luca Dell'Oca, September 19, 2023September 18, 2023

Raise your hand if you love to rebuild everytime your home lab manually! Noone, right? you either end up trying to not breaking it, thus defeating the purpose of the lab, or you spend insame amount of hours to fix it everytime, or to rebuilding it from scratch. So, automation in our home labs has always been a huge topic, and there are around many posts in these regards. So, why my own version? Because I found around some posts that I used to create my own automation, but none of them was perfect for my needs. I love beers, so let me use this example: like an home brewer (which I’m not, by the way) during this year I made my own recipe. It may not be the best one around, but it’s my own personal recipe. If you find it useful too, be my guest!

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Calculate space savings of a XFS volume with reflink and Veeam fast clone

Luca Dell'Oca, May 30, 2023May 28, 2023

One of the most common questions I get in regards to Veeam and the usage of XFS filesystem with its reflink capabilities is “how do I measure the real used space?”. There are some techniques and some blog posts around, but I noticed that none of them were written with operations in mind. Time to fix this.

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A new whitepaper: Veeam Backup & Replication V12 enhanced security and scalability with object storage Secure Mode

Luca Dell'Oca, May 4, 2023November 18, 2024

I just published a new whitepaper: Veeam Backup & Replication V12 enhanced security and scalability with object storage Secure Mode. Check it out!

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Enable EVC mode in an existing vSphere Cluster with VCSA and VSAN in it

Luca Dell'Oca, April 26, 2023April 21, 2023

In my home lab I did the usual mistake of forgetting to enable EVC mode before adding my second NUC to the VSAN cluster. I got stuck for a day trying to find a solution for it, but I finally managed to solve it. Here’s how.

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