Hi everyone, For those who follow me and sometimes chat with me, you probably know that I am a big fan of VMware TestDrive. I don’t hear a lot about it, but I think it’s something great and very useful. What is VMware TestDrive exactly? To quote them: “With ready-made integrations with some of our most popular …
Read MoreHi everyone, I applied for the second-half vExpert applications and I got accepted! This is the first time and I’m really, really happy! This is my fourth attempt and here is to hopefully more years of vExpert. Here is my public profile page. If you don’t know what vExpert is, you are missing out on a lot, quoting from …
Read MoreHi everyone, Here is how I upgraded my NSX-T deployment from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1. If you tried to in-place update a NSX-T Host that has multiple host switches, you will get an error. You can use this trick to get around this limitation. First, we log into the NSX-T Manager, and go to the Upgrade tab under system. Here, we …
Read MoreHi everyone, In this post, we will be deploying a PyKMIP server that stores its keys in a database. Unlike the docker container, the keys will be saved so on a reboot your keys are not lost. So what exactly is this for? Well, in my use-case, I will be using this server to encrypted virtual machine files and drives. For …
Read MoreHi everyone, A blog post on a different topic this time. I was a Content Engineer for the Hilltop CTF event. Write-up for the Fuzz challenge. Challenge name: Fuzz Creator: MasterWayZ Category: Analysis/Fuzzing Summary: The user is given a URL to look at: http://shellserver1.hilltopctf.masterwayz.nl:5876/ How-To: Using …
Read MoreHi everyone, Sadly during server maintenance, the contents of this blog posts were corrupted. For now, I will link you all to a TechZone article that explain you what to do. A video on this will be coming soon once I get to it. My apologies!
Read MoreHi everyone, A few days ago, I was surprised with a Twitter DM from the VMUG Advantage Twitter account. It turns out, that secretly, Heath Johnson from VMware has been in touch with the VMUG Advantage team about me without telling me. I’m not sure how he managed to pull it off, but VMUG Advantage and me and partnering …
Read MoreHi everyone, Here’s a quick tip for the home lab people with old servers that can’t afford to get new hardware (like me). It seems like that you can override the installer terminating when an unsupported CPU is detected. What you need to do, is when booting from the ESXi ISO, press SHIFT+O, and type in: …
Read MoreHi everyone, In this post I’d like to make a highlight of a piece of software I have been using called 4K Video Downloader. This program is very useful to download videos from sites such as YouTube and Twitch. However, it can download from many more and even playlists! You can get started with the program here. ( …
Read MoreHi readers, This will be a short post. However, I want to take my time now and highlight a new creation from Gary Blake, Giuliano Bertello and Brandon Willmott called PowerVCF. PowerVCF is, as from their GitHub page: “PowerVCF is a PowerShell Module for interacting with the VMware Cloud Foundation (SDDC Manager) public …
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