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Question to the Community: what would you like to see here?

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 14:27:40 +0000

Good day readers,

This post is all about ideas from the community and readers of my blogs.

What would you like to see here? What kind of content? About what products? More homelab and/or IRL related things? More tutorials? And if yes, about what? Anything you’d like to see is welcome.

Please let me know your feedback! Tweet me here or email me at michelle at masterwayz dot nl

VMware Cloud Foundation – Part 0: Testing

Mon, 23 Dec 2019 22:57:55 +0000

Hi readers,

Currently, I temporarily have access to a server with enough memory to run a Cloud Foundation lab until January 2nd 2020.

This gave me the inspiration to build a Cloud Foundation lab and tinker around with it, along with tinkering with an automatic lab deployment script called VLC (VCF Lab Constructor). This is a Powershell program designed to make it easy to deploy a nested (means: running Virtual Machines within Virtual Machines.) Cloud Foundation lab. This is not supported by anyone other than some communities, but it seems to work great for others so I wanted to give it a try.

Creating YouTube videos and more lab space

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:24:45 +0000

Hello readers,

Welcome to my new blog post, in this post I’ll be sharing some ideas that I had.

For the past few weeks I have been thinking of creating posts about setting up a nested ESXi lab with NSX and vSAN. I thought to myself: “Why not make both a blog post and a YouTube tutorial?”. Which is exactly what I will be doing, once my new microphone arrives, is all set up and when it works.

Adding a static route to ESXi

Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:31:24 +0000

Hi readers,

This short post will be about how I had to set-up a static route on ESXi to my VPN subnet.

My setup is as follows: I have an ESXi server in DC1, and a ESXi server at home. The Home ESXi server has vCenter and vRealize Operations Manager on it. My goal was to have vRealize Operations Manager give rightsize advise on VMs on both my home server and the server in DC1. For this to work, I need to add my DC1 server to my vCenter server. I created a datacenter for it in vCenter, and I created a vmkernel adapter on the LAN network of the DC1 server. There is an IPSec VPN that links the remote network and my local network.

My server

Sat, 22 Jun 2019 23:07:18 +0000

Hi readers!
Welcome to my first real blog post! In this post, I will be explaining my current server, my trusty HP ProLiant DL380G6.

It’s armed with two Intel Xeon X5650s, which each have 6 core and 12 threads, making it a total of 12 cores and 24 threads. It has 144 GB (18x 8GB) of ECC RAM, and it currently have two 500GB SSDs, along with a single 320GB HDD.
Here is a picture: