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Rudolf Kleijwegt

I am an experienced IT professional with over 20 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and maintaining IT infrastructure in both enterprise and service provider environments. My skills span across Linux and Windows and a multitude of server applications, allowing me to excel in a wide range of IT roles. Currently, my primary focus is on Software Defined DataCenter and DevOps. I am passionate about staying up to date with the latest trends in the industry to achieve superior outcomes.
VMware

Provision vSphere VMs using Terraform

Recently I got asked to provision a number of identical VMs. Now usually I resort to PowerCLI for this task, but this time I thought it would be nice to get out of my comfort zone and try something new for a change. Since I was experimenting with Packer in Read more…

By Rudolf Kleijwegt, 5 yearsApril 12, 2019 ago
PowerCLI

PowerCLI function to increase VM storage capacity

We recently had a customer that we onboarded for a managed service. Part of this service is that we monitor the OS and it turned out there were a LOT of VMs that had very little free disk space left. Now this seemed like a perfect opportunity to apply some Read more…

By Rudolf Kleijwegt, 5 yearsApril 9, 2019 ago
VMware

Creating a nested ESXi server in vCloud Director

Back in 2018 William Lam released a special virtual appliance version of the ESXi 6.7 image as an OVA. Now you might wonder why would you need a special virtual appliance for a nested ESXi server? The most essential components are already there especially with ESXi 6.7: VMware tools Native Read more…

By Rudolf Kleijwegt, 5 yearsMarch 29, 2019 ago
PowerCLI

Update VM storage timestamp using PowerCLI

The company I work for uses the vSphere API for all kinds of purposes. Usually this works great however one of our programs returned some errors after we moved a large number of VMs from one datastore to another. It turns out that from vSphere API 5.0 onwards the VirtualMachineStorageInfo Read more…

By Rudolf Kleijwegt, 5 yearsJanuary 25, 2019 ago
VMware

Automate VM image creation using Packer

Recently someone sent out a request via Twitter on how to automatically update images. I suggested using Hashicorp Packer but not with the default vmware-iso builder but the one created by the jetbrains-infra team over at Github because it uses the vSphere API instead of a SSH backdoor like the Read more…

By Rudolf Kleijwegt, 5 yearsJanuary 25, 2019 ago
PowerCLI

Testing vCenter Simulator in Docker Playground

On the 31st of december I read a very nice post over at brianbunke.com on running a simulated vCenter with govcsim. Simulated is maybe a bit overstated as it only contains a subset of the API. A vCenter API mocker is a probably better description. Now the nice thing about Read more…

By Rudolf Kleijwegt, 5 yearsJanuary 2, 2019 ago
Event

VMworld Europe – Day 2

Today was the second day of VMworld Europe 2018! We started the day of with the General Session with Pat Gelsinger doing most of the talking.  VMworld Europe 2018 General Session After an opening statement by Jean-Pierre Brulard it was Pat Gelsinger who took the stage. Pat celebrated 20 years Read more…

By Rudolf Kleijwegt, 5 yearsNovember 7, 2018 ago

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