Linux

LXC container for lab environment.

Power of the containers (mainly based on docker) has been proved many, many times. But what in the scenario you have very, very limited resources in your virtual lab and lets say, small debian installation with very few GB of RAM and 1 CPU. With LXC you can use this …

VMware

Legacy VM support in VMware world.

One of the fantastic legacies and possibilities of using the VMware environment is a huge number of operating systems which are supported, or at least working well on top of ESXi. Usually all types of OS you can imagine works so well that you don’t think it can be different. …

VMware

Powershell, HCX – create mobility group based on VM list

However HCX is a fantastic migration tool, but when it comes to migrate lots of VM at once, it is important properly plan migration and in addition to create sufficient automation to fit in the migration (downtime) window. One of the step that need to be created during preparation is …

Azure

zsh and az (azure) command autocomplete

“az” autocomplete command from azure-cli package do not work by default. By autocomplete I understand the functionality where command can populate additional options by pressing <TAB> button twice. In zsh 5.8.1 (macOS ver. 12.6.1) to make it work, create the following file in your home directory: “.zshrc” with the content: …

VMware

PowerCLI code to gather IP and portGroup for VM

It is not an easy task to collect those two information together as it can be read from two different objects. It is always an issue (for me) to merge two value from two different object as VM can have several network cards and at the same time be connected …

Azure

Remove host from AVS cluster

As adding new host to VMware AVS cluster, removing is usually fairly simply. AVS Private Cloud -> Clusers, select 3 dots and edit. Next to the each host you can find small trash icon. By selecting that one you can remove host from the cluster and save the status with …

Azure

gmail, filter forwarded email

If you need to have for some reason more than one gmail account (ie. working for more companies) but you are checking just one mailbox regularly then below is the solution that might work for you as it did for me. In that way, all incoming messages to your source …

VMware

VMUG, AVS – Warsaw, June 2022

This year I had an opportunity to do presentation around current status of AVS (and also in comparison to other VMware implementation in Public Cloud). Below you can find my presentation. I am working to publish my screen recordings as well. This presentation is in Polish, but anyway, I am …

VMware

Kilka uwag odnośnie vmtools

VMtools stanowią bardzo istotny element infrastruktury VMware, często pomijamy czy traktowany mniej poważnie. Tymczasem jest to bardzo istotny element (tak, powiedziałem to jeszcze raz) środowiska który w równym stopniu co cała reszta odpowiada za jego stabilność i bezawaryjność. Z tego względu warto zapoznać się z ich instalacją i utrzymaniem. Ponieważ …

VMware

Configure VPN tunnel between pfsense appliance and VMware VMC.

If you are playing around the VMC soon or later you will need or you would like to configure VPN network connectivity. Direct Connect is fantastic, but I suppose not everyone can afford to buy it for your home/lab connection 🙂  Especially most of the production implementations are around BGP, …