I recently needed to migrate all VMs from one vCenter to another. I had planned to use the native Cross vCenter vMotion GUI, but I ran into a couple of issues. Although using it for one VM works fine-ish, using Read more…
Continuing my journey with trying out varying Hypervisors, I thought Nutanix would be a great next stop after Proxmox. Nutanix Community Edition is the free edition of the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure platform and was first released in 2015. Although it Read more…
Deploying a LinuX Container(LXC) seemed like the next logical step in this Proxmox journey. The process is fairly quick and straightforward. Before we dig in it should first be noted that although Linux Containers and Docker Containers both have “container” Read more…
After a couple of years of using my beefier NUC to run Ubuntu with VMware Workstation, I decided it was time for a switch. Naturally, this has nothing to do with the current state of VMware/Broadcom. Definitely not. Looking for Read more…
I recently completed my Linux Foundation Certified System Administration certification. Although I have used and managed Linux servers for several years as part of my job and homelab, it wasn’t my primary responsibility. The certification was a nice way for Read more…
A couple of months ago I was looking around for something new to try in the homelab. Since I had done Kubernetes last year when I was getting certified, I thought it might be a good idea to try out Read more…
For any familiar with PowerCLI, this is one of the first scripts someone may learn. It is just long enough to need more than one-liner, but short enough to feel like you don’t need to be an expert. Here is Read more…
Normally I frequently use Powershell when it comes to vSphere automation, but lately, I have been wanting to develop tools and scripts that are user-friendly and easily reusable. With those objectives in mind, it is hard to find a better Read more…
I believe it was last year when I first heard about Project Keswick and how VMware wanted to streamline and change how ESXi hosts are deployed at the edge. It sounded cool and exciting, and I made a note to Read more…
In the last post, we got Tanzu configured, however, before we can get any services deployed there are a few more items we need set up. The first is getting a Namespace setup, followed by permissions and storage. Fortunately, all Read more…