I started using the VMware Photon based appliances to deploy vCenter services (VCSA) and PSC with the 6.5 version several months ago.

SII Ouest VMware team has published a PowerCli Cheatsheet with most common commands of the VMware PowerShell SDK to manage vSphere environments.

I’m currently working to deploy quickly OpenStack based training lab to provide a platform for practical exercises for training sessions.

In order to fully configure a virtual machine after a clone of OVF deployment, it may be useful to use settings from virtualization layer in the guest OS: for example to run Guest OS customization as already discussed in this blog.

After a DNS record change for the controller node of our lab OpenStack infrastructure, Horizon client was still displaying the old endpoint DNS hostname in the API access.