Category Archives: Virtualization

Unusually Busy Day

Posted on February 25, 2021 by larry

There is a vulnerability in VMware VCenter and ESXi. Been trying to patch it at work today. My day flew by. There were other things to take care of, got really busy. Weight: 319.0

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Moving VMs

Posted on February 24, 2021 by larry

Moving some VMs off of a 250GB hard drive. I am not sure why I had it in my system. Maybe because I was testing it. Really small drive, and it is NOT SSD. Getting it on to my 6TB … Continue reading →

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Main ESXi Host Down

Posted on February 22, 2021 by larry

As I post, my main ESXi host is down. Basically I wanted to add another drive in to my host, and in the reboot process I have killed my USB boot drive. So I am restoring from backup as I … Continue reading →

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Source Of Constant Crashing

Posted on February 21, 2021 by larry

This was a VM, and I think there was an overloaded resource, I suspect storage, but that is just a gut. Also switched from a VLAN tag to untagged, since the source may have been networking (since it was not … Continue reading →

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Troubleshooting Constant Crashing

Posted on February 19, 2021 by larry

One of my boxes is crashing, sometimes I enjoy figuring out what went wrong, other times…. I just want it to work. This is one of those times I just want it to work, but as I dig around I … Continue reading →

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Docker Networking

Posted on December 23, 2020 by larry

One of the challenges I have with docker is understanding networking. I thought I understood host and bridge, but the concepts are different in vmware. Bridge is an external connection in vmware, internal in docker. Weight: 320.8

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Special Docker Build

Posted on December 22, 2020 by larry

Building a CentOS 7 kickstart to build an entire docker workstation Ironing out the kinks right now. Should be interesting. Weight: 318.6

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Trying To Get Grafana Loki Promtail Working

Posted on November 14, 2020 by larry

I was able to get mysql to view on grafana. Which is cool. I can pipe yum update checks to mysql query. Also got prometheus working as well, where a daemon is running on the target and the server pulls … Continue reading →

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Showing Off Grafana

Posted on November 13, 2020 by larry

Finally shoed grafana to someone that has genuine interest. I am motivated now, going to work on my lab stuff now to show off more. Pushups and situps will happen after 11PM, but before midnight. Weight: 320.0

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Scripting AWS Builds

Posted on November 6, 2020 by larry

Cool project at work, there are some kids that we would like to provide some guidance. One of the things was a wordpress server and a minecraft server. I may need 25 of them at one time, so I scripted … Continue reading →

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