ZimaCube Review: Almost Perfect Out of Box Homelab Experience in Local Cloud Setup
Here’s a quick video that shows how effortless it is to create a RAID array of disks with ZimaOS.👍 It’s design: The dark, cube shaped device looks good. The grill…
Step-by-Step: Remove a Node Permanently from a vSAN Cluster
Recently I decided to decommission a node from my vSAN-based home lab cluster hosted on the cloud to decrease the cost of my powered on servers. I want to share…
Step-by-Step: Deploy VMware NSX-T 2.4.1 Manager
I have been designing and deploying NSX-v solutions as part of my PSO role for the past 3 years. Aside with that, I decided to start my journey towards NSX-T…
The 8 Best Cloudflare CDN Alternatives in 2024
Developers and technically inclined users who value customization, performance optimization, and developer-friendly tools may prefer Fastly or KeyCDN as Cloudflare alternatives. These providers offer more granular control, advanced features, and…
Best Windows Monitoring: Netdata 2.0 Native Windows Agent
We take a look at the new native Windows monitoring found in Netdata. It is one of the easiest solutions you can choose to start monitoring your environment quickly, now…
Black Friday Deals for Linux Users — 2024 Edition
However, if something offers international shipping, and the discount sounds like a good deal even with the custom charges, go for it after proper research.Thanksgiving is around the corner. Happy…
If nothing else, get a lifetime cloud storage this Black Friday!
However, the convenience comes at a price. The subscription plans may be affordable to some extent, you will have to pay for it indefinitely. Lifetime cloud storage deals go easy…
FOSS Weekly #24.47: Kernel 6.12, Using Conky, Benchmarking Linux, New AnduinOS Distro and More
Conky is a lightweight LUA scripting system that lets you add system stats on your desktop. It’s a popular tool for customizing the looks of Linux desktop.Start analyzing complex threats…
UNLIMITED POWER! – Benchmarking Intel Xeon 6
Grab yourself a Pint Glass at https://craftcomputing.store Intel Xeon 6 launched around a month ago, with an all new ground-up architecture, and twice the density of their outgoing 5th Gen…
This Simple Change Improved the Performance of My Homelab Running on Raspberry Pi
In my case, I’m exploring x86 servers to handle my containers and self-hosted applications more robustly, and I’ll cover that journey in a future article.This experience has further reinforced my…
Configure NSX-T 3.x Load Balancer for Cloud Director 10.x Cells
As I started my cloud director (formerly vCloud director) journey, I am following a learn-by-doing approach as I want to set up my cloud director environment and blog about it…
Running Opencoder LLM in VS Code: A Local, Copilot Alternative
This tutorial is performed on Ubuntu 24.04 in a VM. Steps mentioned are mostly applicable on Ubuntu. But, feel free to replicate the same on other Linux distributions and operating…
Create Geneve-Backed Provider VDC in Cloud Director 10.x
VMware Cloud Director enables cloud providers to build secure, multi-tenant clouds by pooling virtual infrastructure resources into virtual data centers. Cloud Director introduces the virtual infrastructure resources to users through…
VMware Cloud Director 10.x Integration with vCenter 7.x and NSX-T 3.x
VMware Cloud Director as a cloud management platform (CMP) offers true multi-tenancy where each customer has a self-service tenant portal that will be used to provision workloads and other services….
VMware Cloud Director 10.x: Org and OrgVDC Creation
An organization is the fundamental vCloud director grouping that contains users, vApps that they create, and the resources that the vApps use. An organization is the top-level container in a…
NSX Application Platform Part 3: NSX-T, NSX-ALB (Avi), and Tanzu
January 5, 2022 NSX Application Platform Part 3: NSX-T, NSX-ALB (Avi), and Tanzu NSX-T Logical Networking, Ingress, Load balancing, and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service (TKGS) This article will elaborate on…
VMware Cloud Director 10.1.1 – One or more VC/NSXs have been detected to be disconnected
As I already deployed cloud director 10.1.1 and integrated it with vCenter 7.0 and NSX-T 3.0. Things were working as expected and vCenter connection status was successful and connected until…
Cloud Director 10.x: vApp Guest OS Customization Greyed Out at Catalog Level
One of the latest things I tried to do recently in my VMware cloud director environment is to create a shared catalog with some imported vCenter OS templates to be…