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Patching windows servers with Ansible

Luca Dell'Oca, October 18, 2016December 4, 2016

After I configured my Ansible server to manage my windows machines in the previous article, one of the first tasks I planned to automate was patching. Patching is one of those extremely boring but needed activities, and in any environment, even with a small amount of server, automated patching may be a savior. As long as proper data protection is in place, like a daily backup of the involved virtual machines, we can safely plan automatic updates, and if anything goes wrong, we just need to revert the virtual machine to the previous state.

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HP StoreVirtual Failover Manager stops working after vSphere 5.0 is upgraded to 5.1

Luca Dell'Oca, October 10, 2013December 4, 2016

Recently at a customer I upgraded a vSphere 5.0 cluster to 5.1. The update itself was quick and smooth, but I had a problem with HP StoreVirtual Failover manager, or FOM for short. The HP StoreVirtual FOM (or LeftHand, if you are nostalgic of the old name) is a small…

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vSphere 5.5 available for download… hold!

Luca Dell'Oca, September 23, 2013September 23, 2013

Yesterday, on Sunday 22nd September VMware released in its website the new vSphere 5.5 suite, just like vCloud 5.5. Many guys already started to download the new software. For sure it’s a good time to test the new versions in a test or pre-production environment, so to verify all the…

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Quick Update: VMworld US 2013 and some NDAs

Luca Dell'Oca, August 16, 2013August 15, 2013

Hi all. I know I’m not writing anything new on this blog since some weeks. I’m not in a writer’s block, on the contrary I’m writing a big amount of new stuff. Problem is, almost all these writings are about new softwares and technologies still under NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement),…

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ESX 4.0 Update 1A…

Luca Dell'Oca, December 11, 2009December 10, 2009

… ovvero vale sempre il vecchio adagio “lascia passare qualche tempo prima di avventarti su un service pack, lascialo installare ad altri, lascia che siano loro a bloccare i sistemi, lascia che risolvano eventuali bug prima che sia tu a soccombere alla smania di installare” Ecco, esce la versione 1A,…

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Aggiornare ESX 4.0 a Update 1 con agenti di terze parti

Luca Dell'Oca, December 2, 2009December 4, 2016

Può capitare di avere installato nei server ESX degli agenti di terze parti: sistemi di monitoraggio, controllo remoto, backup centralizzati… Se vi trovate in questa situazione e dovete aggiornare ESX 4.0 col nuovo Update 1, assicuratevi di aver letto bene l’articolo KB1016070, dove vi verrà spiegato come dovrete agire. L’alternativa…

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vSphere Update 1

Luca Dell'Oca, November 24, 2009November 22, 2009

Venerdì scorso è stato rilasciato il primo aggiornamento per vSphere. Oltre al supporto per View (bisogna infatti installare questo update per poter utilizzare la virtualizzazione dei client), ci sono alcune interessanti novità: – supporto ufficiale per Windows 7 e Windows 2008 R2, sia 32 che 64 bit – il driver…

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Aggiornare un ESXi standalone da 3.5 a 4.0

Luca Dell'Oca, June 19, 2009December 4, 2016

Dave Mishchenko nel suo sito vm-help ha pubblicato un chiarissimo e preciso articolo su come effettuare un aggiornamento di ESXi da 3.5 a 4.0, in caso questo sia stato installato in versione standalone o in ogni caso senza l’utilizzo di vcenter. Dedicato a tutti gli utilizzatori “poveri” di esx :-)))…

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