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Tools and Utilities
Rufus Alternative for Linux and Windows installing ISOs – Ventoy
Most of you are familiar with the Rufus utility that is a great way to “burn” an ISO to a USB key for installing various OS’es. It works great, and it serves the purpose very well. However, I want to…
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VMware
iSCSI Synology VMware Configuration step-by-step
One of the lab additions made in the past couple of weeks is a new Synology DS1621xs+ 6-bay NAS device. I have been wanting to add a NAS device for quite some time and decided to pull the trigger. The…
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Raspberry Pi
Pihole Local DNS Records synchronized from Active Directory
If you use Pi-hole in your home network, and you should, the local DNS provided by Pi-hole is a great way to house DNS services for your home network. However, do you have a home lab environment running Microsoft Windows…
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Proxmox
Nested Proxmox VMware installation in ESXi
In working with clients and different environments, you will definitely see many different hypervisors used across the landscape of enterprise organizations. While I recommend VMware vSphere for business-critical enterprise workloads to customers, there are use cases where I see other…
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Kubernetes
Kubernetes Bare Metal Load Balancer configuration with Nginx
Creating a new Kubernetes cluster in Portainer
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home lab
Virtualization vs Containerization in 2022 home lab
I have been revisiting many of the infrastructure components and services running in the home lab environment. You can read my VMware Home Lab and Learning Goals 2022 post to see a few of the specific learning objectives that I…
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VMware PowerCLI
VMSA-2022-0001 CD-ROM vulnerability patch workaround and Locked CD-ROM error
Well, closely on the heels of the Log4j vulnerability, we have started 2022 with a new VMSA-2022-0001 released from VMware. The new vulnerability affects a wide range of products, including VMware Workstation, Fusion, and ESXi. Let’s take a closer look…
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VDI
Securing Virtual Workspaces with Praim ThinOX
No longer are the majority of workers driving into the office. The remote workforce has taken shape and is a trend that will undoubtedly continue. As a result, businesses have had to shift their infrastructure to support a largely remote…
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Automation
VMware Event Broker Appliance VEBA tutorial: How to create an email notification
Among the really cool projects I have stood up in the lab as of recently is the VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA). If you have not heard about VEBA and you are looking to take your vCenter notifications and automation…
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Kubernetes
Create Kubernetes Cluster with Rancher and VMware vSphere
How is your Kubernetes journey kicking off in 2022? While Kubernetes is already wildly popular it is feeling more like 2022 and beyond is going to be the year that modernized applications are going to really take off in the…
