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
ComfyUI Self-hosted ComfyUI install - Ubuntu 24.02 How to Install ComfyUI on Ubuntu 24.04 in /opt/ComfyUI with GPU Support and Auto-Start Stephane Thirion 6 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Artificial Intelligence From Hype to Reality: The AI Stack That Actually Matters The AI race isn’t just about large models. It’s about how businesses stack models, workflows, and trust to make real work better. Here’s where we challenge the idea that models don’t matter anymore. Stephane Thirion 5 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
ansible Ansible Playbook for Creating Multiple VMs with Sequential Naming in vCenter In this blog post, we will explore an Ansible playbook that creates multiple virtual machines (VMs) in a vCenter environment. Stephane Thirion 11 Apr 2024 · 5 min read
ansible Automating VM Deployment in VMware vSphere with Ansible This post aimed to provide a clear understanding of how the Ansible playbook functions for creating multiple VMs in a VMware vSphere environment. Stephane Thirion 5 Apr 2024 · 4 min read
ansible What is Ansible? I've been tired of cloning my Ubuntu template to build again and again some Docker Swarm and Kubernetese node so I was looking for a quick and cheap way to automate these tasks. This is an ideal tool for homelab, it's lightweight and free ! Stephane Thirion 4 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
Oobabooga Oobabooga - text-generation-webui auto installation (Ubuntu 22.04.3) In this blog, we'll demonstrate how automation can make a complex tool like Oobaboga accessible to a wider audience by providing an auto-install script in this post. Let's do this Stephane Thirion 28 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Active directory Migrating FSMO roles Windows 2019 Server Be careful, the Windows 2019 Server iso have been pulled out, it should be back shortly (Nov-2018) As Microsoft Windows 2019 became (almost) available, this is time again to move Stephane Thirion 6 Nov 2018 · 3 min read
Acls Set acls remotely to a VDI / RDSH Delivery Group In the same way as the previous blog post, some more automation to maintain a VDI/RDSH environment, and get back to a controlled and clean environment. This blog is Stephane Thirion 5 Apr 2016 · 2 min read
automation Remotely clean up Virtual Machines drives - XenDesktop Following up the previous blogs XenDesktop XenApp 7.x – vmware / ad / delivery group notes and descriptions sync and Expand virtual machines hard disk – automation and continue in automated task, I Stephane Thirion 4 Apr 2016 · 2 min read
automation Expand virtual machines hard disk - automation Sometimes, at some customers’s place, with an infrastructure already in place (XenApp with PVS or XenDesktop VDI pooled with PVS) the D: drive is too small. The drive where Stephane Thirion 30 Mar 2016 · 4 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
automation XenApp 6.5 to XenApp 7.5 Migration (Machine) Citrix will very soon offer a lot of scripts and tools to give the ability to migrate policies from a XenApp 6.5 farm to a XenApp 7.5, I’ Stephane Thirion 24 Apr 2014 · 3 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
automation Citrix XenDesktop 7 - Unattended from scratch So auto-install and auto join an already XenDesktop 7 Site is cool but what if you need to automate the first DDC installation ? Here is how I did with help Stephane Thirion 6 Jul 2013 · 4 min read
automation Citrix XenDesktop 7 - Unattended Installation + Site join We all need to automate things, we need to fast deploy, fast provision and stay lazy, not doing the same thing every day… So let check how we can industrialize Stephane Thirion 26 Jun 2013 · 3 min read
automation VDI Project - The framework (part.2) 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 30 May 2011 · 3 min read
Architecture VDI Project - Not only a XenDesktop project (part.1) 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 28 May 2011 · 3 min read