ansible Automating VMware VM Deployment with Ansible: Guide to Static IP Configuration - request Deploying multiple VMs with consistent configuration shouldn't require hours of manual clicking through vCenter. With Ansible's vmware_guest module, you can automate the entire process from VM creation to static IP assignment. Stephane Thirion 4 Jul 2025 · 3 min read
daas Citrix DaaS ProvisioningTaskError One of my customer did a vSphere migration, hypervisor and storage to use vSan. After this migration they reported me they were unable to update a Machine Catalog (MCS) and Stephane Thirion 1 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
automation XenDesktop XenApp 7.x - vmware / ad / delivery group notes and descriptions sync Several times i had the need to synchronise Virtual Machine notes (vmware) with Active Directory Computer description. As in big environment, different team are managing each of these components, the Stephane Thirion 30 Mar 2016 · 2 min read
Azure Cloudify my lab with Windows Azure As I got an unlimited access to Windows Azure I wanted to check out how I could extend my lab into it and use it to store VMs workload (at Stephane Thirion 19 Jan 2014 · 7 min read
Automate Citrix XenDesktop 7 – Create Persistent Hypervisor Connection and Hosting Unit, Unattended I blogged about how to automate Citrix XenDesktop 7 deployment and database creation, and how to join and existing XenDesktop 7 site unattended, but now to continue and go a Stephane Thirion 8 Jul 2013 · 4 min read
error Error while editing VM settings in vSphere Today I got an annoying issue when I was trying to edit settings from a Virtual Machine. It happens after I converted a template to a VM to make to Stephane Thirion 5 Jan 2012 · 1 min read
CTX117248 XenDesktop 4 : The delivery controller cannot find any available virtual desktops Error 1301 In a new mission, I had to learn a new environment based on Citrix XenDesktop 4, Provisioning Services 5.6 and vmware vSphere 4.1. This week, I had a Stephane Thirion 17 Jul 2011 · 9 min read
Benchmark VDI Project - Hypervisor war (part.3) VDI Project – Not only a XenDesktop project (part.1) VDI Project – The framework (part.2) VDI Project – Hypervisor war (part.3) VDI Project – Desktops and applications delivery (part.4) VDI Stephane Thirion 3 Jun 2011 · 2 min read