I have had the privilege of attending the Commvault Shift event held at the iconic BAFTA headquarters in Piccadilly, London. This event was unique because it offered a comprehensive overview of the current state of cybersecurity and the imminent threats that loom over us. It also highlighted innovative technologies and strategies that can help mitigate those risks and safeguard our digital assets. We live in an era where data, applications, and devices are constantly evolving and becoming interconnected. Unfortunately, this convergence has also given rise to novel forms of...
Zabbix Monitoring my home lab
I recently attended a Zabbix partner meeting in London (with Zabbix and their top UK partners presenting). This was ideal as it gave you plenty of opportunity to as questions and gain better insight in what you could do with Zabbix. You may ask yourself what is Zabbix? The all-in-one, open-source solution that lets you monitor anything. This platform is designed to monitor millions on metrics in real time, collected from tens of thousands of servers, virtual machines, network devices and applications – to name a but a few...
Can I migrate this website to be a Static Web App using Github repository for Free? (part 1)
I have been thinking of doing this for a while after speaking with Dave Simpson and he said he had done but was using AWS so i checked out John Saville YouTube video on this as he explained it really well. Free Website Hosting with Microsoft Azure Static Web Apps – Bing video Also watched Harry Lowton YouTube video How To Create A Static Web App On Azure – Bing video Decided this was possible create Github account and Azure account and followed Harry Lowton video now have a...
Homelab Mac Pro 6,1 (Trashcan) 2013 built using Cloud Foundation Lab Constructor
My main homelab machine is Mac Pro 6,1 (Trashcan) 12 core Xeon 128gb ram 500gb M2. HP MicroServer N54L running Freenas providing additional storage. As you can see from Screenshot ESXi 8 is installed on Mac Pro. I used the the following link and instructions once registered. VMware Cloud Foundation Lab Constructor (google.com) SDDC Manager Nested hosts view from SDDC Manager Nested Hosts in vCenter NSX-T Manager showing Transport zones created NSX-T Manager Host Transport Nodes This is not a detailed guide just wanted to see if it would...
VLANs in VMware Workstation
Install and configure Hyper-V using PowerShell (Your computer must be capable of hardware virtualization and set in BIOS) #Open Powershell As Administrator Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-All Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName HypervisorPlatform #reboot #find the network adapter you want to attach the VLAN’s Get-NetAdapter -Physical Create a new VMSwitch (normally the VMSwitch is for VMs but the -AllowManagementOS option allows the OS to interact) New-VMSwitch -name ExternalSwitch -NetAdapterName Ethernet -AllowManagementOS $true Add a VM VLAN adapter (Remember an access port doesn’t need the traffic to be tagged but it will be...
Install Auvik appliance in VMware ESXi
Download Auvik OVA from Auvik Trial – Free for 14 Days | Auvik Networks you will need an account or you can trial for 14 days. You will need to makes sure SNMP is setup for Auvik to discover devices on your network automatically for any network devices, servers, etc.. Right click on Datacenter and select deploy OVF template. Select local file and browse to location where you saved your OVA file and click next. Name virtual machine and location and click next. Select Compute resource. Review details. Select...
What have you achieved in the last 2 years?
If you had said to me in January 2019 that by December 2020 that I would have spoken publicly at 2 events, have this blog site up and running, and became a VMware vExpert, I would not have believed you. In fact, I probably would have laughed at you! Well in January 2019, I persuaded my employer to pay for membership for VMUG Advantage for myself and a colleague, giving us benefits like 365 evaluation licenses, etc. etc. By the second VMUG meeting I attended, I decided to give...
How to setup SNMP on ESXi 6.5
1: Select Host you want to turn SNMP on. 2: Configure and Security profile. 3: Services and edit 1: Highlight SSH. 2: Click Start and OK Launch Putty and log onto host you enabled SSH on Type the following or copy and paste. NOTE: This opens up to Everyone. You can configure it to specific IP addresses: The CMD to restart SNMP service...