I am a Cloud DevOps Engineer having worked with VMware, Microsoft and Linux systems in CSP/MSP environments since 2012.

I started automating repetitive tasks with PowerShell and Bash in 2012. Since 2017 I have been developing Cloud Automation and Self-Service utilising VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) and vRealize Automation (vRA).

Since 2019 I have been working with both AWS & Azure Public Cloud, optimising and automating solutions in multi-tenant environments.

I created this blog to document issues I have experienced and share Cloud automation solutions.

I am a vExpert. The vExpert program is VMware’s global evangelism and advocacy program, recognising the people who have made some of the most important contributions to the VMware community. I am also recognised as a vExpert in the vExpert Cloud Management & vExpert Cloud Provider sub-programs.

Category: VMware

Sysprep Fails on Windows 2008 R2 with PowerShell 5.0 Installed

Published by luke on 29th December 2017

I experienced this issue when working on a particular platform, it was a weird one so thought I would document it. The Issue I tried to deploy a VMware VM from a Windows 2008 R2 Template which had PowerShell 5.1 installed – Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0, however OS customisation would not complete. I tried to manually run sysprep within Windows too but that failed. Looking at the sysprep logs showed the error… “Sysprep_Generalize_MiStreamProv: ****…

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vRealize Automation (vRA) 7.x Remote Console Issue

Published by luke on 10th July 2017

I experienced this issue while working on a particular platform. It was a weird one so thought I would document it. The Issue Trying to remote console to a VM using the vRealize Automation (vRA) portal would fail with the message… Cannot establish a remote console connection , verify that the machine is powered on if the server has self-signed certificate, you might need to accept certificate, then close and retry the connection. I found…

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