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How to Create VMware Data Center on Ravello
We at Ravello have been working on some really cool technology for the last couple of months. We have implemented a CPU virtualization extension called VT-I for Intel or SVM for AMD in our HVX...
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Setting up Arista vEOS switch and VM Tracer lab with ESXi hosts on AWs and...
VM Tracer is a capability that is natively integrated into the Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS) and works with the entire Arista 7000 Family of Data Center Switches, and links the Arista...
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How to run vCenter 5.5 on AWS using Ravello?
We at Ravello have been working on some really cool technology for the last couple of months. We have implemented a CPU virtualization extension called VT-I for Intel or SVM for AMD in our HVX...
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How to create ESXi 5.5 & 6.0 image on Ravello?
We at Ravello have been working on some really cool technology for the last couple of months. We have implemented a CPU virtualization extension called VT-I for Intel or SVM for AMD in our HVX...
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Using Ravello Systems for Technical Training of Red Hat CloudForms
Red Hat CloudForms is Red Hat’s Cloud Management Platform (CMP) product. A CMP is a piece of software that provides high-level management capabilities on top of virtualization infrastructures, private...
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Nested ESXi on AWS or Google Cloud with Ravello: Frequently Asked Questions
Q1: Why would I want to run ESXi on AWS or Google cloud? A1: VMware technology partners, resellers and customers need infrastructure lab environments for development and testing, sales demos, PoCs,...
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No Hardware Required – Testing VMware Integration and Management Tools on...
As a Solution Architect for Scalar Decisions, we are often tasked with obtaining a thorough understanding of the integration process between solution components that will operate within a customer...
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How to build a 250 node VMware vSphere/ ESXi lab environment in AWS for testing
This blog was written with guidance from Scott Lowe around best practices of VMware data center design and automation. As most of you are aware, we recently announced the public beta of a new feature...
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How the VMware community can benefit from running nested ESXi lab...
VMware has a vibrant ecosystem comprising technology partners, resellers, enterprise customers and the end-user community. This ecosystem needs VMware ESXi lab environments for development and...
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VMware ESXi on AWS or Google Cloud – Public Beta
We at Ravello are proud to announce the public beta of ESXi Smart Labs on AWS and Google cloud. With this latest service enhancement from Ravello, the VMware ecosystem can run VMware ESXi lab...
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Step-by-step guide: Setting up CI/CD with Ravello, Jenkins and Chef on Amazon...
I recently presented at an Amazon (AWS) EC2 user group meet-up in Toronto, Canada. The idea was to demo some popular tools being used today rather than only provide a Ravello product demo. It turned...
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OpenStack Juno multi compute node Lab – Ready to use environment on AWS and...
This entry has been in the works for a while and now it comes to fruition. These days OpenStack is the buzzword. Companies are adopting it, testing it, and finding new ways to use it at astounding...
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To vCloud Air or AWS? The million dollar dilemma
With IT budgets shrinking, enterprises across the globe are faced with a million dollar question - can I stretch my budget by moving away from capex and embracing opex? Many companies are looking to...
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How to prepare an NFS shared storage server for an ESXi lab
As most of you probably know besides implementing a hypervisor merely capable of running regular VMs, we’ve also implemented a CPU virtualization extensions called VT-I for Intel or SVM for AMD cpus....
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Running Barracuda Firewalls in AWS or Google for Testing, Training, and POCs
Training. POCs. Testing. These are use cases where the ability to create multiple copies of the same environment quickly is key to success. Barracuda has recently announced their plans to expand the...
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How to use promiscuous mode on AWS: using port mirroring for packet capture...
It is a well-known fact that one cannot use promiscuous mode (port mirroring) on AWS or Google cloud. However getting packet capture on AWS in many cases would be the easy and sometime only solution...
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Building VMWare NSX lab on AWS and Google Cloud with Ravello Systems
Hi, that is my first blog post ever, so don't judge too much. This post will introduce my journey in running VMware NSX™ lab setup on Ravello service. Firstly let's get some background how I found...
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Ansible SmartLab on Ravello
In some of our previous blog entries we’ve discussed Puppet for config management. Today we are going to talk about another, easier to setup, config management service, Ansible. Ansible is written in...
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How to configure multiple NICs and multiple IPs per VM on AWS EC2
It is often required to configure more than a single network interface on your VMs, and sometimes one also needs to configure additional IPs on a given NIC. However, it is not as straightforward a...
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Adding NICs and changing MAC addresses in AWS EC2
For networking and security enthusiasts, below is a short comparison of running your VMs in AWS/Google vs. data center vs. Ravello. One of the main limitations of AWS/Google is that they don’t allow...
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