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Openstack
Install Devstack Openstack Ubuntu VM
If you want to get your feet wet with Openstack, there is a great project available called Devstack which allows you to create a VM with an all in one installation of Openstack inside a virtual machine. I decided to…
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Web
Connect Vaultpress AWS EC2 instance
For those that blog with WordPress and want to consider a good backup solution for their blog, there are a few options out there. However, one that is pretty straightforward and seamless is Vaultpress. It takes the heavy lifting out…
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Virtualization
Overlapping Subnets Lab Environment
A while back I wrote up a post about creating an isolated test environment using the same ips and subnets with VMware. This post was written from a layer 2 perspective with users who needed access gaining access to that…
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home lab
Nested VMware Mobile Home Lab
I wanted to write up a post about the specifics of my nested VMware mobile home lab, which is running on a Dell Precision Workstation laptop M4800. This post is particularly around the VMs that I have running and not…
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vSphere 6
New HTML5 vSphere Web Client
With the new host UI that is present with vSphere ESXi 6 update 2, it gives us a taste of what the HTML5 web client might look like. But alas, we don’t have to wait! With the new fling available…
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Virtualization
Storage Admin Weekly Checklist
If part of your system administration tasks involve managing storage especially for virtualization host targets, there are several things that you should probably be doing on a weekly basis to make sure the environment is healthly. The steps I outline…
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Cool Stuff
Suddenlink offers unlimited data for small fee
The rumors have been confirmed – Suddenlink offers unlimited data for small fee for existing customers. New customers can actually take advantage of a free offer for unlimited data package for the first year. Suddenlink offers unlimited data After hearing…
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Powershell
Use powershell see important account properties
When it comes to querying Active Directory, there is no easier way to see information about user and computer objects than by using Powershell. Powershell provides access to query on all the properties of the objects that you would like…
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vSphere 6
Upgrade VMware vRealize Operations Manager vROPs 6.2
In rolling through quite a few upgrades recently, I wanted to posted some screenshots and process notes of upgrading vROPs 6.0.2 I had running in my environment to 6.2. The process is fairly standardized with VMware’s appliances and for the…
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Virtualization
Simulate latency virtualization test lab
One of the coolest parts of having a virtualization environment is that you can setup as many labs as you want or as many as you have the hardware resources for I might say. As a current project setting up…
