Category Archives: Virtualization

New Lab Ideas

Posted on February 5, 2022 by larry

Decided to redo my lab or at least upgrade it up to the next gen. Using Apache Guacamole and a dedicated ESXi host i think I can make this happen. Been a while since the creative juices were flowing. Weight: … Continue reading →

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My First Tomcat Install

Posted on February 1, 2022 by larry

Installed my first tomcat service, it was an Apache Guacamole server. Spent some frustrating hours yesterday trying to get it to work via docker containers. Maybe because I do not know entirely what I was doing. But with a native … Continue reading →

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Telling My Trainer Workout Is Easier

Posted on January 31, 2022 by larry

Not sure if I want to, but I think I need to tell my trainer my workouts are getting easier. I think she going to push me to the next level and it will get all hard again. But it … Continue reading →

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Getting More Thin Clients Online

Posted on December 11, 2021 by larry

Got another thin client ready to take over some duties of VMs that are on an ESXi host I want to shutdown. Modifying my strategy a bit, thinking of shutting down (maybe even disconnecting power completely) and keeping the server … Continue reading →

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Rocky 8.5 is out

Posted on November 15, 2021 by larry

Downloaded Rocky 8.5 today and redoing my infrastructure to support it. Made a mistake of deleting the wrong device and erased my copy of kickstart and grub boot. Luckily I documented on this blog what I did, so was able … Continue reading →

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Son Doing Great

Posted on October 30, 2021 by larry

Youngest son ran XC districts today. I wasn’t sure if this is his last race, but it sounded like he wanted to be there again next year. Also he learned a bit of containers and linux today. This should be … Continue reading →

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Building Podman Servers

Posted on October 29, 2021 by larry

I am now starting to move to move towards podman rocky 8 containers. Pas the testing phase and now into building real processes. Also ordered three new thin clients to be the new podman cluster. Another thing today is I … Continue reading →

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Podman Network Persistent

Posted on October 25, 2021 by larry

Figured it out, I can now have the Rocky 8 reboot and have the containers persist over reboots. nmcli con add con-name dockernet-shim type macvlan dev dockernet-shim mode bridge nmcli con add con-name dockernet-shim type macvlan ifname dockernet-shim ip4 192.168.100.223/32 … Continue reading →

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Podman on CentOS 8

Posted on October 24, 2021 by larry

A few differences in podman, but got a lot done with CentOS 8 and containers. One of the weird things I got was communication between the containers and the host. This sort of worked ip link add dockernet-shim link eth0 … Continue reading →

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Rocky 8 Kickstart Via USB

Posted on October 22, 2021 by larry

Struggling to get kickstart working on USB, Changing tactics, going to get it work via network completely, then will get it working via USB Weight: 343.4

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