I wanted to write a short introduction to a tool that I’ve been using a lot on my newest servers and development projects. This tool seriously provides the most amazing way of monitoring and comprehending your server’s performance and other metrics that I’ve seen in such a simple, lightweight installation. Read more…
After setting up an NGINX webserver with a GoDaddy-issued SSL certificate, I did an SSL test and saw that I was graded a C. That’s average! I want a secure site. So I looked around at a couple of things, and decided to put together a small list of things Read more…
This is part two, the final part of configuring NGINX with SSL as a reverse proxy. Now that you have successfully installed NGINX and obtained a free SSL cert, you can proceed. There is one important thing to note when configuring reverse proxy: For each “subfolder” you want to Read more…
You can do a lot of configuration of ESXi through the GUI, but one thing I’ve found that you cannot do is configure SNMP. I can see in the GUI that SNMP service is stopped, and that’s about it: Even if you can manage to get the service started Read more…
I recently wrote an article on installing OMSA 8.4 VIB on ESXi 6.5 and also installing OMSA 8.4 VIB on ESXi 5.5 — Sometime between then and now, Dell released OpenManage Server Administrator version 8.5 and a VIB for ESXi 6.0 and 6.5. Here is how to download/install OMSA 8.5 VIB on Read more…
Increasing the size/resources of a VM in your own environment is usually pretty straightforward. You’ll know whether or not you can hot-add resources; if you have to reboot the machine or not, etc. and it’s probably a familiar interface such as VMWare, Hyper-V, or a KVM or similar hypervisors. I Read more…
Ever since vSphere 6.5 I’ve bee missing some parts of the vSphere client. I still use it over the web interface for some things such as iSCSI target mapping, port binding, and all those configs. If you, too, miss the vSphere clients, you can make sure you get the latest Read more…
This is part one of a two-part series for using NGINX as a reverse proxy for microservices on the same server or hosted on other servers/ports Click here for part two. In this article, we will: Install NGINX Install LetsEncrypt CertBot Obtain free SSL certificate Configure NGINX for SSL In Read more…
With the release of vCenter 6.5.0b comes a nest of improvements and fixes to the platform: HTML5 Client Updates vCenter SSO Issues Security Issues Bacukup Issues HA statistics bugfix To get your vCenter server updated to the latest, download the patch here: https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch#search Select VC from the dropdown and look Read more…
Earlier this year, I wrote an article on how to control the fan speed of your Lenovo SA120 JBOD from within FreeNAS. It turns out this doesn’t work on the newest FreeNAS 10 ( FreeNAS Corral ), but the reason is simple. When I went to run the Fan Speed Read more…