Tag Virtual Machine

25/05/2020

Azure – Auto Shutdown “Save” Greyed Out

By Steve in Cloud & Datacenter Management, Developer Technologies, DevOps, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure Tag Auto, Auto-Shutdown, Greyed, Out, Shut Down, Shutdown, Virtual Machine

I recently tried to enable auto shutdown on a virtual machine. I wanted to receive a notification before auto-shutdown. But the option was greyed out. It would appear if send…

22/05/2020

Azure – Access Control and Role Assignment

By Steve in Azure AD, Azure Security, Cloud & Datacenter Management, Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Enterprise Security, Enterprise Security, Hot Wired IT Solutions, IAM, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Roles, Users and Groups Tag Access Management, Admin Tasks, Administrator, Assignment, Azure Security, IAM, Resource Group, Roles, Virtual Machine

This example shows how to assign a user/group a role to admin virtual machines in a resource group. How to steps.. Select "Resource Group" > IAM > Add > Select…

21/05/2020

Azure – Monitoring Alert On Virtual Machine CPU Usage

By Steve in Alerts, Azure Monitor, Azure Security, Cloud & Datacenter Management, Cyber Security, Enterprise Security, Enterprise Security, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Windows 10, Rules Tag Action Group, Alert Admin, Alert Logic, Alerts, Azure Security, CPU, Notifications, Spikes, Virtual Machine

Create a monitoring alert on virtual machine CPU spike/usage. Prep work you will need a virtual machine to monitor. An action group set to send emails to admins For this…

27/09/2018

Vembu BDR Essentials – Small Businesses

By Steve in Vembu, Vembu BDR Essentials, Vembu BDR Suite Tag Backup, File Recovery, Vembu, Vembu BDR Essentials, Vembu BDR Suite, Virtual Machine

Check out Vembu BDR Essentials, it has now been released for small business’s. Over the last year, there seems to be a rise advanced phishing attacks and ransomware. While these…

01/09/2017

Add VM Custom Annotation and Create a Report on Annotations

By Steve in Automation, ESXi, PowerCli, Powershell, vCenter, VMware Tag Automate, Automation, Bulk task, Bulk Virtual Machines, CSV, Custom Attributes, Custom_Attributes, Edit Annotations, Notes, PowerCli, PowerShell, Reports, RVTools, vExpert, Virtual Machine, vSphere

Add Custom Attributes for Notes Annotation .................. A request to add custom attributes for Virtual Machines when using the fat client. (Web client in 5.1 and 5.5 requires a plugin,…

05/08/2017

Bulk Virtual Machines Deployment and Zero Clicks Part 1

By Steve in Automation, ESXi, PowerCli, Powershell, Technology U.G, vCenter, VMware Tag Automate, Automation, Bulk task, Bulk Virtual Machines, CSV, PowerCli, PowerShell, vExpert, Virtual Machine, vSphere

A recent project revisited deploying virtual machines via PowerCli. Its fair to say this isn’t a new tool but sometimes over looked. Part 1 / Part 2 My requirements were…

05/08/2017

Bulk Virtual Machines Deployment and Zero Clicks Part 2

By Steve in Automation, Microsoft, PowerCli, Powershell, VMware Tag Automate, Automation, Bulk task, Bulk Virtual Machines, CSV, PowerCli, PowerShell, vExpert, Virtual Machine, vSphere

Based on the CSV file used to create the VMs, re-use the CSV to control Part 1 / Part 2 What else can I do now? Delete Computer Objects from…