In the fast-paced world of virtualization, VMware is known for its innovation, and one of its standout features is VMware vMotion. This technology has transformed the way we handle virtual machines (VMs), and in this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at what VMware vMotion is, how it works, and why it’s a game-changer for businesses.
One of the ESXi’s I have in the lab started reporting bootbank errors.
Simultaneously I noticed that power operations, VM snapshots and some other tasks stopped going through. This is when I knew that it was time to replace a decade old USB stick that this host was booting from.
I have been using myTinyTodo since 5-6 years at least and very happy with it. It keeps things simple but does have all the features that are necessary to implement GTD techniques. Until recently I had Ubuntu VM in my homelab dedicated to run the service. However, now I migrated it to a Docker container and this is a write-up regarding the steps it took.
OpenWRT allows you to choose from a list of providers and configure DDNS pretty quickly. Router periodically checks your WAN IP, compares it to the A-record for the DDNS domain and updates it if necessary. The update happens via URL with a few parameters in it. However, at this moment DDNS option cannot be enabled for my domain that I have with Canadian OVH branch. The option is missing in the online graphical interface and API says that it is not available. However, with access to REST API it’s possible to work around this limitation.
Nutanix provides a hands-on lab to experience the solution. It’s a self-paced lab that takes approximately one hour to complete.
I wanted to see at which step I’ll be asked for the encryption password during a restoration so I decided to go through a full cycle of backup configuration and recovery.
VCSA 6.7 and 7.0 allow you to choose to encrypt backups. It feels reassuring to see new daily backups appear on your NFS/FTP or SMB share. However, if you want to make sure that you have the right password for these backups without reconfiguring the schedule here is how you can do it.
In Nutanix Community Edition there are two ways to deploy a Prism Central. You can either grab a tar and metadata files from the forum and upload them to the cluster GUI or use cluster interface for an automated download and installation from the internet.
Here is the configuration for a successful pass-through of an integrated GPU Intel HD Graphics 530.