Archive

2024

August

• August 23, 2024 » velero with rook ceph CSI

July

• July 13, 2024 » Using rook ceph

March

• March 14, 2024 » Kubespray random networking troubleshooting

February

• February 25, 2024 » Simple Pipelines with the Harness CI module
• February 15, 2024 » Sending Logs To Loki

January

• January 23, 2024 » Upgrading pfSense to 2.7.x
• January 10, 2024 » Migrating From ESXi to Proxmox

2023

December

• December 29, 2023 » Kubespray Post Install Operations
• December 23, 2023 » Upgrade OpenEBS cStor

2022

November

• November 9, 2022 » Velero and OpenEBS

October

• October 23, 2022 » Using Kubespray to Install Kubernetes

March

• March 27, 2022 » Using docker slim to reduce the size of a docker image
• March 14, 2022 » Deploying AWX in Kubernetes with AWX Operator

February

• February 21, 2022 » Improving Ansible Execution Time
• February 10, 2022 » Updating a Port in FreeBSD Ports

January

• January 25, 2022 » Building a Nix Package
• January 15, 2022 » Using Hashicorp Vault with Ansible

2021

December

• December 21, 2021 » Using cStor from OpenEBS
• December 12, 2021 » Deploying and Using ArgoCD

October

• October 21, 2021 » Deploy GitLab Runner on GCP with Terraform and Run a Simple CI/CD Job for Firebase
• October 1, 2021 » AWS Lamba Parsing ECS Events

September

• September 29, 2021 » Using Hashicorp Vault on Kubernetes

August

• August 20, 2021 » Random Updates for Tekton
• August 1, 2021 » Using Kustomize

April

• April 20, 2021 » Distributed Systems Design - Uber
• April 8, 2021 » Grafana Dashboard for RabbitMQ

March

• March 24, 2021 » Upgrade CentOS 8 to RHEL 8
• March 7, 2021 » Distributed Systems Design - WhatsApp

February

• February 18, 2021 » Backing Up grafana Dashboards with grafcli
• February 16, 2021 » Distributed Systems Design - Netflix

January

• January 27, 2021 » Distributed Systems Design - Twitter

2020

August

• August 23, 2020 » Playing Around With Convox

June

• June 15, 2020 » Trying Out Some Security Tools for Kubernetes

May

• May 26, 2020 » Cert Manager, Botkube, and Tekton Pipelines with Conditions
• May 4, 2020 » Simple CI/CD Elements with Tekton

April

• April 23, 2020 » Monitoring Other Targets with Prometheus
• April 9, 2020 » Adding a node to a Kubernetes cluster with kubeadm

February

• February 3, 2020 » NGINX Ingress with Alertmanager and Prometheus

January

• January 12, 2020 » Alerting with Prometheus on Kubernetes
• January 8, 2020 » Monitoring Kubernetes with Metricbeat

2019

February

• February 14, 2019 » Adding Foreman Hosts with ansible and AWX

January

• January 20, 2019 » Creating an IPSec Tunnel between Google Cloud Platform and PFSense
• January 5, 2019 » Using Squid to Proxy SSL Sites

2018

December

• December 24, 2018 » Using G-Suite Enterpise to Configure a Chromebook as a Kiosk Machine
• December 12, 2018 » Setting Up and Using AWX with docker-compose

November

• November 26, 2018 » Terraform with ESXi and Foreman
• November 16, 2018 » Use Packer with VMware Player to build an OVA

October

• October 21, 2018 » Using Foreman to Provision and Configure Machines
• October 5, 2018 » Playing Around with Terraform and Jenkins

September

• September 26, 2018 » Deploying an OpenStack Instance with Terraform
• September 12, 2018 » Installing OpenStack Pike with Kolla Ansible

August

• August 20, 2018 » Using the Nginx Ingress Controller with Kubernetes
• August 5, 2018 » Deploy PuppetDB and PuppetBoard with Docker Compose

July

• July 25, 2018 » Use Terraform to Deploy a VM in ESXi
• July 11, 2018 » Update a Kubernetes Deployment

June

• June 23, 2018 » Install Guacamole on Docker
• June 12, 2018 » Installing Heapster for Kubernetes

May

• May 22, 2018 » Deploy Kubernetes with kubeadm on Ubuntu 16.04
• May 10, 2018 » Manually Deploy Kubernetes on CoreOS

April

• April 26, 2018 » ESXi 6.5 Passthrough Video Card/GPU to Plex VM
• April 13, 2018 » Run Script Before Shutdown with VMware Tools

March

• March 22, 2018 » Creating a Launchd Plist for jackd
• March 8, 2018 » Creating a VIB to modify a Firewall Rule on an ESXi Host

February

• February 20, 2018 » ESXi 6.5 on HP Z2 Mini G3 with Intel I219-V NIC
• February 10, 2018 » Troubleshooting tg3 Driver Issues on MacMini Running CoreOS

January

• January 23, 2018 » Additional Jenkins Job Changes
• January 6, 2018 » OpenStack, Ansible, and Kolla on Ubuntu 16.04

2017

December

• December 27, 2017 » Getting Started with Jenkins
• December 5, 2017 » Deploy OpenStack Ocata with RDO/PackStack on Fedora 25

November

• November 22, 2017 » Manually Deploying OpenStack Ocata on Fedora 25
• November 11, 2017 » Running a Windows VM in Virtualbox in a VMware Gentoo VM

October

• October 22, 2017 » Using Flannel with CoreOS
• October 5, 2017 » Migrating MariaDB to Docker

September

• September 25, 2017 » Run Elasticsearch and Kibana on Docker
• September 10, 2017 » Using Splunk with Docker

August

• August 27, 2017 » Using WP Scan Docker Image with CoreOS
• August 12, 2017 » SSD Performance Degradation and SCSI UNMAP Command

July

• July 24, 2017 » Installing CoreOS and Shipyard
• July 14, 2017 » Sophos 9 on CentOS 7

June

• June 25, 2017 » Setup Paperwork on Debian 8 with Apache
• June 11, 2017 » Install Lynis and Fix Some Suggestions

May

• May 24, 2017 » Updating to ElasticStack 5.0
• May 10, 2017 » openSUSE on MacBook Pro 6,2

April

• April 25, 2017 » pfSense on Netgate APU4 1Gb Testing
• April 14, 2017 » Revert to ASUS-WRT from DD-WRT on the Asus RT-AC68U Router

March

• March 24, 2017 » VMware Remote Console with vSphere 6.0U2
• March 15, 2017 » Kibana Reports with Phantomjs

February

• February 24, 2017 » Installing Splunk Forwarder on pfSense
• February 15, 2017 » Messing Around with Kubernetes

January

• January 25, 2017 » Media Casting and Streaming Options
• January 13, 2017 » Email DD-WRT Monthly Bandwidth Usage

2016

December

• December 26, 2016 » Getting an A+ at the Qualys SSL Test with mod_nss
• December 12, 2016 » Install Zabbix on pfSense

November

• November 24, 2016 » pfSense Logging with ELK
• November 16, 2016 » Setup Suricata on pfSense

October

• October 20, 2016 » Installing pfSense on PC Engines APU 1D4 / Netgate APU4
• October 5, 2016 » Cleaning up the Snorby Database

September

• September 23, 2016 » Migrating Splunk From FreeBSD to Debian
• September 16, 2016 » Migrate MariaDB from Debian 8 to FreeBSD 10

August

• August 20, 2016 » Migrate MySQL 5.5 to MariaDB 10.0 on Debian 8
• August 7, 2016 » Install CyanogenMod 13 On Nexus 5

July

• July 25, 2016 » Upgrade Zabbix 2.4 to 3.0
• July 7, 2016 » Upgrade Puppet 3.x to 4.x

June

• June 24, 2016 » Update Debian and XBMC on Late 2006 MacMini
• June 10, 2016 » Update Kibana 4.3 to 4.4

May

• May 26, 2016 » Reverse Proxy Kibana with Apache
• May 14, 2016 » Updating to Snorby 2.6.3

April

• April 24, 2016 » Ossec Monitoring with Splunk and ELK
• April 12, 2016 » Suricata Logs in Splunk and ELK

March

• March 25, 2016 » 10GB And Thunderbolt iSCSI SSD Testing
• March 10, 2016 » Testing Out Plex with Docker

February

• February 27, 2016 » Playing Around with an Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana (ELK) Stack
• February 15, 2016 » Trying out MadSonic

January

• January 28, 2016 » Updating Zabbix from 2.2 to 2.4 on Debian 8
• January 10, 2016 » Playing Around with Conky on Gentoo

2015

December

• December 15, 2015 » Use WOL to Power On Dell Laptop
• December 2, 2015 » Hack Windows 7 With The Java Rhino Exploit Using MetaSploit

November

• November 14, 2015 » Build Your Own ZFS Home Storage Server
• November 8, 2015 » Setup an SSL Site with Mod_NSS on Debian 8 with TLS

September

• September 20, 2015 » vCloud Air Testing

August

• August 16, 2015 » Updating ESXi 5.5u2 to 6.0.0b
• August 2, 2015 » Running Snort on DD WRT

July

• July 21, 2015 » Compile iptables TEE Module for DD WRT

June

• June 27, 2015 » Install ArchLinux on MacAir 7,2
• June 21, 2015 » Upgrade Debian Wheezy(7) to Jessie(8)
• June 7, 2015 » Setup Netatalk on OmniOS for Time Machine Backups

May

• May 30, 2015 » Another Google Drive CLI

April

• April 5, 2015 » Install Fedora 21 on MacAir 7,2

March

• March 29, 2015 » Recover LUKS Password from Android Phone

February

• February 22, 2015 » Upgrade Gentoo to Use Systemd
• February 16, 2015 » Install Gentoo on Samsung Chromebook

January

• January 4, 2015 » Suricata on FreeBSD 10
• January 3, 2015 » Aanval Setup on CentOS 7

2014

December

• December 17, 2014 » Live Resize Root Filesystem on FreeBSD 10
• December 16, 2014 » Snort on FreeBSD 10

November

• November 28, 2014 » Running XBMC 11 on Mac Mini Late 2006
• November 22, 2014 » Install ChromeOS Kernel 3.8 on Samsung Chromebook
• November 12, 2014 » Running Gentoo as a Guest in VirtualBox
• November 11, 2014 » Zabbix DB Partition DST Issue
• November 9, 2014 » DD-WRT on ASUS RT-AC68U Router

October

• October 29, 2014 » Uploading an OVF to vCloud Director
• October 24, 2014 » Puppet with OpenSolaris Systems

September

• September 20, 2014 » Install Debian 7 On MacMini Late 2006
• September 15, 2014 » Using Augeas to Modify Configuration Files
• September 1, 2014 » Writing Better Puppet Modules

August

• August 23, 2014 » Messing Around with Puppet
• August 16, 2014 » Setting Up Open Source Puppet Master on CentOS 7
• August 13, 2014 » Deploy Wordpress with Vagrant and Puppet Modules
• August 11, 2014 » Update Splunk 6.0.3 to 6.1.3 On FreeBSD 10
• August 10, 2014 » Revert LVM Changes Using LVM Metadata Backups
• August 7, 2014 » Partition Zabbix 2.2 MySQL Database

July

• July 26, 2014 » Migrate Google Sites to Confluence
• July 21, 2014 » Update CentOS 6.5 to 7.0
• July 9, 2014 » Mac OS X Mount NTFS

June

• June 28, 2014 » Update OpenELEC 3.2.4 to 4.0.6
• June 26, 2014 » Create a Test Wordpress Instance using Puppet and Vagrant
• June 24, 2014 » Multi VM Vagrant Setup
• June 23, 2014 » Compile OpenVAS 7 on CentOS 6
• June 22, 2014 » OpenSUSE Base Box for Vagrant From SUSE Studio
• June 21, 2014 » Upload Vagrant Box to the Vagrant Cloud
• June 18, 2014 » Create a Base OpenSUSE Image for Vagrant
• June 15, 2014 » Simple Vagrant Setup
• June 14, 2014 » Arch Linux Systemd on ARM Architecture Issue
• June 8, 2014 » Monitor ESXi S.M.A.R.T Attributes with Zabbix over SSH
• June 7, 2014 » ESXi Patch for HeartBleed

May

• May 27, 2014 » Migrate From Wordpress to Jekyll With Github Pages
• May 24, 2014 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 22 - Virtualization with KVM
• May 20, 2014 » Update Zabbix to 2.2 and Monitor VMware
• May 19, 2014 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 21 - Troubleshooting
• May 13, 2014 » Update Splunk 6.0 to 6.0.3 on FreeBSD
• May 12, 2014 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 20 - Email Services
• May 6, 2014 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 19 - Network Services
• May 5, 2014 » OpenVAS on CentOS

April

• April 22, 2014 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 18 - DNS
• April 21, 2014 » ESXi on MacMini 6,2
• April 15, 2014 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 17 – FTP
• April 14, 2014 » Snort On Debian
• April 10, 2014 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 16 - Samba
• April 9, 2014 » OSSEC on FreeBSD
• April 3, 2014 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 15 – NFS
• April 2, 2014 » Tag Multiple VLANs with Trunk Port on DD-WRT Router

March

• March 27, 2014 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 14 – Web Services
• March 26, 2014 » Install Samhain with Beltane on FreeBSD
• March 20, 2014 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 13 – Remote Access
• March 13, 2014 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 12 – System Security
• March 6, 2014 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 11 - SELinux

February

• February 27, 2014 » ESXi Backups with ZFS and XSIBackup
• February 20, 2014 » Install Arch Linux on Samsung Chromebook
• February 13, 2014 » LemonLDAP-NG With LDAP and SAML Google Apps

January

• January 5, 2014 » ZFS iSCSI Benchmark Tests on ESX
• January 5, 2014 » Updating ESXi 5.0U2 to ESXi 5.1U1
• January 5, 2014 » Installing LSI CIM Providers for MegaRaid 8704ELP Local Controller on ESXi 5.0

2013

December

• December 31, 2013 » Configure IPMI On SuperMicro Server and Monitor IPMI Sensors with Zabbix
• December 23, 2013 » Installing Splunk on FreeBSD

November

• November 19, 2013 » Update ChrUbuntu 13.04 to 13.10 on the Samsung Chromebook
• November 19, 2013 » OpenELEC on Raspberry Pi

October

• October 18, 2013 » Syncing Files with Various Cloud Storage Solutions
• October 3, 2013 » Monitor Thermal Sensors With lm-sensors
• October 1, 2013 » Monitor SMART Attributes with Zabbix

September

• September 22, 2013 » Backing Up with Rsync to Pogoplug
• September 11, 2013 » Combine VobSub (sub/idx) Format Subtitles into a Single SubRip (srt) Format File
• September 2, 2013 » Connecting to an OpenVPN Server with Various Clients

August

• August 26, 2013 » Using PolKit to Change Screen Brightness on a Mac BookPro Running Fedora 19
• August 15, 2013 » Installing VMware Workstation 9.0.2 on Fedora 19
• August 15, 2013 » ESXi hostd Crash (5.1GA) Due to Leftover SNMP Traps
• August 8, 2013 » Install Fedora 19 on Mac Book Pro

July

• July 23, 2013 » Mount Various File Systems with Autofs on Mac OS X Mountain Lion
• July 23, 2013 » Decrease DMG Size to Fit on a Single Layer DVD
• July 9, 2013 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 10 - The Kernel

June

• June 16, 2013 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 9 - System Logging, Monitoring, and Automation
• June 15, 2013 » Monitor Disk IO Stats with Zabbix
• June 15, 2013 » Migrate from Libvirt KVM to Virtualbox
• June 15, 2013 » Install Splunk and Send Logs to Splunk with Rsyslog over TCP with SSL
• June 15, 2013 » Enabling LDAPS on Windows 2008 Active Directory Server
• June 15, 2013 » Configure AD Replication with Windows 2008

May

• May 22, 2013 » Set up simpleSAMLphp as an IdP to be Used in an SP-Initiated SSO with Google Apps
• May 4, 2013 » Configure HAProxy to Load Balance Sites With SSL

April

• April 21, 2013 » Setup Your Own Certificate Authority (CA) on Linux and Use it in a Windows Environment
• April 18, 2013 » Load Balancing IIS Sites with NLB
• April 15, 2013 » Use FWBuilder to Deploy an IPtables Firewall to a DD-WRT Router
• April 12, 2013 » Deploy an Amazon EC2 instance in the Free Usage Tier
• April 11, 2013 » Migrating a VM from VMware Workstation to Oracle VirtualBox
• April 8, 2013 » Extending the System Drive on Windows 2008 Running Under KVM
• April 8, 2013 » Deploying a Test Windows Environment in a KVM Infrastucture

March

• March 15, 2013 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 8 Network Installs
• March 14, 2013 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 7 User Administration
• March 13, 2013 » Monitor Different Systems with Zabbix
• March 12, 2013 » Update ChrUbuntu 12.04 to 13.04 on the Samsung Chromebook
• March 11, 2013 » Monitor Different Systems with Zenoss
• March 11, 2013 » Install ChrUbuntu 12.04 on Samsung Chromebook
• March 7, 2013 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 6 Package Management
• March 7, 2013 » Monitor Different Systems with Munin
• March 4, 2013 » X Server Doesn't Start After Upgrading to Fedora 18 with Nvidia Driver

February

• February 20, 2013 » Monitor Different Systems with Collectd
• February 17, 2013 » Sharing a File Encrypted by EncFS with Android and Linux Systems with Google Drive
• February 13, 2013 » Running VMs On FreeBSD using QEMU with VDE
• February 13, 2013 » Installing MusicCabinet on Top of SubSonic
• February 13, 2013 » Fixing Android Phone Device Permissions on Fedora 17

January

• January 31, 2013 » Organizing Your Music Library Using Acoustic Fingerprinting
• January 25, 2013 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 5 Networking
• January 25, 2013 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 4 File Systems and Such
• January 22, 2013 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 3 Disks and Partitioning
• January 22, 2013 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 2 System Initialization
• January 14, 2013 » RHCSA and RHCE Chapter 1 - Installation
• January 14, 2013 » Plot Esxtop Data With gnuplot
• January 14, 2013 » HTTP Based Data Transfers from Windows 8 VM to Linux Physical Machine are Corrupted
• January 14, 2013 » ESXi Hosts Show Up as a VEM Module with All Zeros for UUIDs on the Nexus 1000v
• January 14, 2013 » Connecting to a VM using "Serial Port Over the Network" With a Moxa Device Server
• January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 9.2 – Install ESXi Hosts Using Auto Deploy
• January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 9.1 – Install ESXi hosts with custom settings
• January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 8.2 – Administer vSphere Using the vSphere Management Assistant
• January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 8.1 – Execute VMware Cmdlets and Customize Scripts Using PowerCLI
• January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 7.2 – Configure and Maintain the ESXi Firewall
• January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 7.1 – Secure ESXi Hosts
• January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 6.5 – Troubleshoot vCenter Server and ESXi Host Management
• January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 6.4 – Troubleshoot Storage Performance and Connectivity
• January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 6.3 – Troubleshoot Network Performance and Connectivity
• January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 6.2 – Troubleshoot CPU and Memory Performance
• January 7, 2013 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 6.1 – Configure, Manage, and Analyze vSphere Log Files

2012

December

• December 26, 2012 » RHCSA and RHCE Study Guide
• December 16, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 5.2 – Deploy and Manage Complex Update Manager Environments
• December 16, 2012 » Find Out Battery Status of Rooted Andoid Phone Using ADB
• December 4, 2012 » Rooting my HTC Sensation Phone

November

• November 30, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 5.1 – Implement and Maintain Host Profiles
• November 30, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 4.2 – Deploy and Test VMware FT
• November 30, 2012 » Presenting a LUN over Fibre Channel from a NetApp FAS 3240 Array to an ESXi 5.0 Host Running on a Cisco UCS B200 Blade
• November 29, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 4.1 – Implement and Maintain Complex VMware HA Solutions
• November 29, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 3.4 – Utilize Advanced vSphere Performance Monitoring Tools
• November 29, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 3.3 – Implement and Maintain Complex DRS Solutions
• November 29, 2012 » Recover Files from an SD Card Using Linux Utilities
• November 29, 2012 » IBM HS22 Blades Running ESXi 5.0 Experience Random Hangs
• November 23, 2012 » VMs are Slow to Boot from an HP MSA 2000 Array
• November 23, 2012 » Receiving " Failed write command to write-quiesced partition" Messages When Utilizing Qlogic QMI8142 CNA
• November 23, 2012 » Lost NFS Connectivity from ESX(i) Host when NAS is Another Subnet
• November 23, 2012 » Installing be2iscsi Driver Version 4.1.334.3 on HP BL495c G6 with NC553m CNAs Causes ESXi Host to PSOD
• November 23, 2012 » ESX(i) Host with Emulex NC553i CNA Disconnects from Strorage
• November 23, 2012 » Experiencing PSODs on HP 465C G7 Blades with NC551i NICs
• November 5, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 3.2 – Optimize Virtual Machine Resources
• November 5, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 3.1 – Tune and Optimize vSphere Performance
• November 1, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 2.4 – Administer vNetwork Distributed Switch Settings

October

• October 27, 2012 » Can't Set X520 10GbE Intel NIC to Auto Negotiate on ESX(i)
• October 22, 2012 » Setup Fedora 17 with nVidia GeForce 6200 Video Card to Connect to a TV and Function as an XBMC Media Center
• October 22, 2012 » Pkgng and Freebsd 9
• October 22, 2012 » Mounting an NTFS Volume in FreeBSD 9 with the /etc/fstab File
• October 22, 2012 » Mounting an NTFS Disk with Write Capabilties in FreeBSD 9
• October 19, 2012 » Seeing 'Storage Device Performance Deteriorated' in the Logs When Using Equallogic PS 6000XV Series
• October 11, 2012 » Installing Subsonic on Fedora 17
• October 10, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 2.3 – Deploy and Maintain Scalable Virtual Networking
• October 9, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 2.2 – Configure and Maintain VLANs, PVLANs and VLAN Settings
• October 9, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 2.1 – Implement and Manage Complex Virtual Networks
• October 9, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 1.3 – Configure and Manage Complex Multipathing and PSA Plug-ins
• October 9, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 1.2 – Manage Storage Capacity in a vSphere Environment
• October 9, 2012 » Installing Mediatomb on FreeBSD 9 and Connecting to it with XBMC from a Fedora 17 OS
• October 8, 2012 » Virtual Machine Clone Fails with 'A general system error occurred: Configuration information is inaccessible' Error Message
• October 8, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Objective 1.1 – Implement and Manage Complex Storage Solutions
• October 8, 2012 » Setup Fedora 14 Machine as a Wireless Gateway for an Internal Network
• October 8, 2012 » ESX(i) Host Randomly Disconnects from vCenter Server due to Hostd Backtracing
• October 8, 2012 » ESXi Host Receives "Warning: Host is running in audit mode. Your configuration will not be persistent across reboots" Error Message
• October 8, 2012 » Creating an LVM Logical Volume From Two Used Partitions
• October 8, 2012 » Can't Run WebSense as a VM on ESX(i) Host with HP VirtualConnect

September

• September 24, 2012 » Nexus 1000v Disconnects from vCenter
• September 24, 2012 » Fixing a Ghosted/Inconsistent Distributed Virtual Switch by Migrating to a Standard Virtual Switch
• September 17, 2012 » VCAP5-DCA Study Guide
• September 17, 2012 » Setup Apple Wireless Keyboard via Bluetooth on Fedora 17
• September 17, 2012 » Check if Snapshot Consolidation is Occurring in the Background on an ESX(i) Host
• September 17, 2012 » Certifications
• September 14, 2012 » VMFS Datastore not Auto-Mounting on an ESX(i) Host because the VMFS Partition is Overwritten
• September 13, 2012 » VMs on PortGroup with VLAN Tag 1, Don't Have Network Connectivity
• September 10, 2012 » Blitz.io Tests Against Apache Worker, Apache Prefork, Apache with PHP-FPM, and Nginx with PHP-FPM in a 256MB RAM VPS
• September 9, 2012 » VMs Setup to Use Windows NLB in Unicast Mode Lose Network Connectivity When HP Virtual Connect Module is Replaced
• September 5, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 4.3 – Create an Installation Guide
• September 5, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 4.2 – Create an Implementation Plan
• September 5, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 4.1 – Create an Execute a Validation Plan
• September 4, 2012 » VMware Workstation 9 on Fedora 17 Causes Kernel Error with Message "EIP is at HostIF_SafeRDMSR+0x11/0x20 [vmmon]"
• September 4, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 3.6 – Determine Datacenter Management Options for a vSphere 5 Physical Design
• September 2, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 3.5 – Determine Virtual Machine Configuration for a vSphere 5 Physical Design
• September 2, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 3.4 – Determine Appropriate Compute Resources for a vSphere 5 Physical Design
• September 1, 2012 » VDR Appliance Fails to Complete Integrity Check and Fails to Backup Certain VMs
• September 1, 2012 » Getting OpenIndiana Back to it's Original State After Updating by Doing a Clean Install

August

• August 31, 2012 » Corosync Pacemaker running on RHEL 6 VMs Receiving "Failed To Receive" Messages
• August 29, 2012 » PSOD Failed at vmkdrivers/src_9/vmklinux_9/vmware/linux_scsi.c:2221 — NOT REACHED
• August 28, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 3.3 – Create a vSphere 5 Physical Storage Design from an Existing Logical Design
• August 28, 2012 » Migrating a ZFS Pool with ZFS Volumes Used for NFS Shares and iSCSI Comstar Volumes
• August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Study Guide
• August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 3.2 – Create a vSphere 5 Physical Network Design from an Existing Logical Design
• August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 2.7 – Build Security Requirements into the Logical Design
• August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 2.6 – Build Recoverability Requirements into the Logical Design
• August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 2.5 – Build Performance Requirements into the Logical Design
• August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 2.4 – Build Manageability Requirements into the Logical Design
• August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 2.3 – Build Availability Requirements into the Logical Design
• August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 2.2 – Map Service Dependencies
• August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 2.1 –Map Business Requirements to the Logical Design
• August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 1.3 – Determine Risks, Constraints, and Assumptions
• August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 1.2 – Gather and analyze application requirements
• August 27, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 1.1 – Gather and analyze business requirements
• August 27, 2012 » Migrating the Root ZFS Pool to a Smaller Drive
• August 26, 2012 » VCAP5-DCD Objective 3.1 – Transition from a Logical Design to a vSphere 5 Physical Design
• August 26, 2012 » Running out of VMFS Heap on an ESX Host
• August 23, 2012 » Quick Troubleshooting Step for Pathing Issues
• August 20, 2012 » Seeing High KAVG with Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS) RDMs
• August 20, 2012 » ESX(i) Host Experiencing a lot of Active Path Changes and Disconnects to/from VNX 5300 over iSCSI
• August 20, 2012 » Enabling disk.EnableUUID on a Nested ESX Host in Workstation
• August 18, 2012 » Determine Disk VPD Information from ESX Classic
• August 14, 2012 » Checking UCS Settings from the UCS Manager CLI
• August 13, 2012 » Common Commands for Nexus 1000v VSM
• August 11, 2012 » Quick Step by Step Guide on how to Setup the Nexus1000v Distributed Switch
• August 8, 2012 » Common 'vemcmd' Commands from a VEM Module on an ESX(i) Host
• August 6, 2012 » VCD-NI Network Pools with the Cisco Nexus1000v Distributed Switch
• August 2, 2012 » Getting an ESX Host Up on the Network, Running on VMware Workstation
• August 2, 2012 » ESXi Host Shows as Disconnected from vCenter due to Heap Depletion

July

• July 30, 2012 » Seeing LUN Queue Depth Filling up with UCS B230/B200 using Cisco VICs and EMC VMAX
• July 30, 2012 » Receiving "No Free Ports" Available when Connecting a VM to the Nexus 1000v

June

• June 25, 2012 » VMs are Experiencing High Latency to NetApp FAS 6240
• June 25, 2012 » iSCSI Login in a Packet Capture
• June 25, 2012 » ESX Host Lost Access to a LUN and Now All the VMs are Showing up as Invalid
• June 25, 2012 » ESX Host Experiences High DAVG to an Infortrend SAN
• June 25, 2012 » Configure Windows 2008 as NFS share for VMware ESX
• June 19, 2012 » PowerCLI Script to Identify Which VM is using an RDM LUN Identified by the NAA-ID of the LUN
• June 14, 2012 » VMs Losing High Number of Pings When Consolidating Snapshots

May

• May 28, 2012 » After Updating N1K to Version 1.5, Incorrect VLAN Information Displayed Under DV Uplink Port Groups but not Under DV Port Groups
• May 12, 2012 » Seeing SCSI Command Aborts on an ESX 3.5 Host
• May 12, 2012 » Quiesced Snapshots Failing in Windows 2008 R2 VMs

April

• April 26, 2012 » Seeing a High Number of Trespasses from a CLARiiON Array with ESX Hosts
• April 24, 2012 » What is Seen in the Logs When Logging Into an ESX(i) Host
• April 24, 2012 » "Thin on Thin" With VMware Thin Provisioned Disks and EMC Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning
• April 24, 2012 » Getting Permission Denied Using NetApp NAS on ESX(i)
• April 24, 2012 » ESX Host Experiencing High Latency to a Hitachi HDS Array
• April 17, 2012 » Enabling More Host-Resources Information from the Net-SNMP MIB on ESX Classic
• April 16, 2012 » Veritas Enterprise Manager Causes SCSI Reservation issues when used with RDMs
• April 16, 2012 » Microsoft Cluster Servers Don't Work on Equalogic Array Using the DELL_PSP_EQL_ROUTED Plugin
• April 16, 2012 » Datastores show up as Snapshots after a host reboot with SRM installed
• April 9, 2012 » Error updating Chromium on FreeBSD 8.2-p6
• April 8, 2012 » Why SCP and DD from an ESX(i) Host are not Good Performance Tools
• April 8, 2012 » Ubuntu 11.10 VMs Experience High Storage Latency on ESXi 5.0
• April 8, 2012 » Timeouts During a Cold Migration Across Datacenters

March

• March 27, 2012 » Possible reasons for RARP storms from an ESX host
• March 26, 2012 » NetApp SnapManager/SnapDrive/SME Causes ESX Host to Hang
• March 26, 2012 » Missing links to devices on Linux VMs under /dev/disk/by-id/
• March 21, 2012 » vMotion Causes Unicast Flooding
• March 20, 2012 » Increase LVM Partition Size on a Linux VM
• March 19, 2012 » Reclaim Space in a VM on Thin or Thick VMDKs
• March 19, 2012 » Beacon Probes with Port-Channel Causing Mac-Flapping

2011

May

• May 26, 2011 » Sample IPtables rules
• May 13, 2011 » Simple FreeBSD PF firewall
• May 10, 2011 » FreeBSD Firewall and NAT with PF

2010

June

• June 28, 2010 » Samba Installation and Configuration Guide

February

• February 5, 2010 » ProcMail Installation and Configuration Guide