If you’ve done any work with virtual machines for any amount of time, you’ve probably ran into the problem that virtual machines tend to fill up their disks quite rapidly. On a Windows VM it usually isn’t a problem, since… Read More ›
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Getting started with Let’s Encrypt & Certbot – LE Series Part 1
I’ve been enjoying myself immensely playing around with Let’s Encrypt these last few days, and discovered a couple solution to common problems and issues, so I thought I’d make a small guide mostly for my own reference on how to… Read More ›
Configuring Ubuntu to Patch Itself
After a couple of years in the IT infrastructure world, you’ll be faced with the greatest task of all, updating servers every month or so. This has always been the most brain dead task imaginable, but now with virtualization, we… Read More ›
Exporting Exchange Mailboxes to PST files
As any admin at any company will tell you, you can never really trust anybody that tells you it’s okay to delete something, ever. This holds especially true for email. If I had a euro for every time I was… Read More ›
How to Really Set Up NTP on HP ProCurve / Aruba Switches – HP Networking Series Part 7
This is a short guide on how to set up NTP time synchronisation properly on HP ProCurve / Aruba network devices. Astute readers of this blog might remember that I covered this topic back in 2015, and you’d be right,… Read More ›
How to Factory Reset a HP Procurve / Aruba Switch – HP Networking Series Part 5
Sometimes it might be helpful to reset an HP Procurve / Aruba switch to it’s default factory config, and weirdly it took me until my 153rd installed switch (yes, I actually looked up how many I’ve installed over the years… Read More ›
Upgarding vRealize Operations Manager to 6.6
Updating appliance VMs can be a bit of daunting process since they are all usually different. vROPS (VMware vRealize Operations) is no different in that regard, but it’s a quite straightforward operation when you get understand the process.
Configuring Debian to Patch Itself
After a couple of years in the IT infrastructure world, you’ll be faced with the greatest task of all, updating servers every month or so. This has always been the most brain dead task imaginable, but now with virtualization, we… Read More ›
Updating VMware vRealize Operations Manager Appliance
Updating appliance VMs can be a bit of daunting process since they are all usually different. vROPS (VMware vRealize Operations) is no different in that regard, but it’s a quite straightforward operation when you get understand the process.
The World’s Longest Console Cable – Smartflex Router Series
As everybody knows, console cables and their corresponding interfaces are a scourge on a network administrators existence. They are always too short, COM-ports get renumbered, Baud-rates are unknown, etc. By their very nature, you also have to be physically present… Read More ›