VMware

Nested ESXi Templates

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Over the past week I have been working on a streamlined process to deploy nested ESXi 6.7 via automation tooling. Going through this I came across an issue w...

Ubuntu - VMware Template Cleanup Script

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Just sharing these scripts in case anyone ever needs/wants a quick way to prep an Ubuntu VM template with/without guest customizations. One script is just a ...

Migrating VMs from PF9 KVM to ESXi

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I have been doing some testing over the past few months of Platform9 running on top of KVM and I have to admit that it has been a very good experience. Howev...

Creating vSphere VMs using Ansible

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Refreshed June 2026: the original used the vsphere_guest module, the pysphere Python library, Ansible 1.8.4, and vCenter 6.0. All four are gone. vsphere_g...