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You might have seen my previous blog post about the VMware Appliance for Folding@Home. This article is about how the local console was made underneath – and actually how simple it is. Usually when powering on...
The PhotonOS-based appliance allows you quickly deploying the software by Folding@Home running protein folding calculations using your available CPU/GPU resources to help fighting COVID-19. Deploying the OVA gives you different set of options: In the end,...
VMware Horizon 7.10 – released on September 17, 2019 – ships with a new dynamic encoder. Depending on what content you’re watching to in your VDI, it will seamless switch to the best suiting codec for...
The new Log Insight 8.0 release brings some cool new things: The OS of the whole appliance is replaced with Photon OS 3.0 instead of SUSE (in-place update possible!), the Windows agent is being open-sourced and...
General / Tips & Tricks / VMware / VMware vRealize Log Insight
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 22. September 2019
How to change the IP address of a VMware vRealize Log Insight node? Glad you asked! I’ve done this change a few weeks earlier to be able to take use of the recommended "Integrated Load Balancer"...
I have a bunch of Windows Server VMs running in a VMware vSphere HomeLab. After nearly about three months of uptime, FreeNAS decided for yet some unclear reasons to crash completely (probably a kernel panic). End...
General / HPE / Tips & Tricks
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 8. May 2019 · Last modified 13. June 2019
Since more than a year I’m running FreeNAS on a dedicated HPE ML310e v2 Gen8 machine in my HomeLab as my main storage, mainly as a iSCSI server for my VMware ESXi nodes. However when building...
General / VMware / VMware vRealize Operations Manager
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 18. November 2016 · Last modified 24. November 2019
Am 15. November 2016 veröffentlichte VMware eine neue Version von VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.4 (kurz: vROPS) mit Verbesserungen, neuen Dashboards und auch eine Unterstützung für das ebenfalls neue vSphere 6.5. Genaueren Release Notes finden sich hier. Neugierig...
General / Linux / Microsoft / Microsoft Windows / Tips & Tricks
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 22. August 2016 · Last modified 31. August 2016
Here it comes… PowerShell Core. Überraschung! Microsoft hat vor wenigen Tagen die von der Windows-Welt allbekannte PowerShell für Linux- und macOS Systeme öffentlich freigegeben. Und zwar steht nun das Projekt auf GitHub unter der MIT-Lizenz – also OpenSource...
General / Tips & Tricks / Tutorial / Veeam
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 21. July 2016 · Last modified 20. July 2016
Wie bereits in einem vorherigen Blog-Artikel genauer erläutert, hat Veeam eine neue kostenfreie Software mit dem Namen “Veeam Backup Agent for Linux” veröffentlicht. Aktuell noch in der Beta-Phase. Damit ist die Sicherung von Linux-Systemen – auch...
