Vagrant Series » Synced Folders (Part 4)
Developing with local tools (IDE, Sublime/Coda/etc) but testing code on a remote machine or local VM can be painful because of the effort required to push the updates to the machine running the...
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Vagrant Series » Project Setup, Vagrantfiles, and Boxes (Part 3)
In the previous post in this series, I looked at how to provision an Ubuntu box with Vagrant in a matter of moments. Now that the process is understood and the power of Vagrant has been seen, it’s time...
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AutoLab 2.6 on Ravello – Build the vCenter & Hosts (Part 3)
Part 3 of this series has been a long time coming. I’d been running into some serious problems getting vCenter to build properly, and then I ran out of hours on my promotional hours allotment from the...
View ArticleVagrant Series » Multi-Machine Environments (Part 6)
Vagrant is neat if you need a whip up a machine to quickly test a script or check compatibility on an operating system that is different than what you normally run. And the value of that isn’t to be...
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Backing up vPostgres Database
Something I have learned over my career as a consultant is to back up everything before performing an upgrade, and then back it up again another way There’s nothing worse than an upgrade going sideways...
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Horizon Workspace and SAML 2.0 with External Applications
With the Horizon Suite 6.0/6.1, it’s awesome to be able to use Horizon Workspace as a ‘dashboard’ of sorts to give access to published applications (via RDSH), full desktops, and user files. Since the...
View ArticleVagrant Series » Installation and First Vagrant Up (Part 2)
Installing Vagrant came with a decision for me: use the free VirtualBox integration (which is probably sufficient, but feels a bit disloyal to me!) or pay $80 for the VMware plugin that would allow...
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Vagrant Series » Introduction (Part 1)
I’ve been hearing about Vagrant for well over a year now, but until this point I haven’t had a requirement to dig in. Vagrant seems to come up in the same conversations as configuration management...
View ArticleVagrant Series » Networking (Part 5)
Your use case for Vagrant will determine what sort of networking setup is appropriate. The good news is that there are plenty of options. Vagrant defines three high-level options for networking that...
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Fixing iDRAC Viewers on Mac with Hazel
In my lab, I’ve got a couple of PowerEdge R610’s that include iDRAC interfaces for lights-out management. Unfortunately, the remote console is Java-based. They’re older servers (using the iDRAC 6...
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