Category Archives: Virtualization

Frustrating Firewall Experience

Posted on August 14, 2019 by larry

Been getting weird firewall problems, got to admit it is getting frustrating. Even went as far as to rebuild my machine. It is back up, but need to see if it will still get disconnected. Also moving my SBS server … Continue reading →

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Dell Server Officially Online

Posted on August 12, 2019 by larry

Got the server up and am copying VMs to it one at a time. Got a bunch to go, but right now the restriction is disk space. I am able muster up a couple of disks and may purchase another … Continue reading →

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Getting Ready To Bring Server Online

Posted on August 8, 2019 by larry

Server itself is all ready, just got to prepare the location. One of the requirements I got for myself is to be able to move this server running from its location to outside of the server room. The inside of … Continue reading →

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New Firewall In Place

Posted on March 25, 2019 by larry

Got a the new pfSense firewall in place. Pretty sure the rules have not imported 100%. It was done manually. This was needed, our stuff is old. At least it is virtualized and I can go physical as well. Also … Continue reading →

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AWS Costs Piling Up

Posted on March 11, 2019 by larry

Need to review my AWS usage, I think I am piling them up too quick. There are a couple of them I can get rid of. Will look at them through the next few days.

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Screwy AWS Instance

Posted on March 10, 2019 by larry

Uploaded an custom instance on to AWS, didn’t look like i was working OK. Making some new images. Hoping it works. Spent most of day at mall… kind of not working on. Need to get on it.

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X2GO Performance

Posted on March 9, 2019 by larry

Wow, I am super impressed by X2ORG, I was able to create an instance on AWS and install MATE desktop and google. And I was able to run youtube relatively clean on it. With audio. And all through SSH.

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Remote Desktop On Mint

Posted on February 19, 2019 by larry

Got remote desktop working on Linux Mint. I found some instructions on a youtube page I also even got it to work with AD authentication. I ended up using a the xfce desktop though. Trying to figure it out on … Continue reading →

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Building USB for ESXi

Posted on February 8, 2019 by larry

One of the things I want to do is build ESXi on a USB flash disk. A quick way is to build it via vmware workstation, then boot it on the physical box. After it is on the physical box, … Continue reading →

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CentOS Kickstart

Posted on January 16, 2019 by larry

Kind of learned this the hard way, but when you kickstart a machine for CentOS 7, 1GB of RAM is not enough. A default install on VMware workstation only assigns 1GB of RAM on a CentOS VM But on an … Continue reading →

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