On Saturday my Home Lab was nominated by VMware vSAN and posted on their twitter page, something like that makes you proud after all. BIG THANKS to VMware 🙂 That’s just the beginning of a great Adventure.
I tried to update my ESXi hosts after updating to ESXi 7.0 U2 with build 17867351, but I received the following error message: After reviewing the logs and restarting the vCenter, I found no solution until I became aware of this Knowledge Base article from VMware, which subsequently solved my problem. To fix this error message, the VMware Update Manager database of the vCenter must […]
In this small tutorial I want to show you how to install the VMware tools in a Debian VM. VMware Tools is a set of services and components that enable various features in different VMware products for better management and seamless user interaction with guest operating systems. Open VM Tools (open-vm-tools) is the open source implementation of VMware Tools for Linux guest operating systems. For […]
Pritunl is a VPN server software based on the popular OpenVPN platform. In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up and use Pritunl on your Debian -based server. I encountered lots of misinformation on the internet during my installation, which made installing pritunl difficult. So you don’t have these problems, I’ve summarized the tutorial in an easy to understand way. Please remember, if […]
If you want to set static IP over CLI for your HPE MSA 2040 please do following steps: Preparing a Linux computer before cabling to the CLI port although Linux operating systems do not require installation of a device driver, certain parameters must beprovided during driver loading to enable recognition of the MSA 2040 controller enclosures. To load the Linux device driver with the correct […]
I recently needed to reset the password on an HPE MSA2040 SAN to which I had physical access. It turns out this information was more difficult to find than I had presumed. The often recommended action is to contact HPE who will send a engineer on-site to reset the MSA password/settings. Don’t hesitate to do that if you have an active support contract. However, here […]
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There are four options available in VMware ESXi Host to work with its interface: Alt + F1 = To access the ESXi Shell or Console interfaceAlt + F2 = To access the ESXi Direct Console User Interface (DCUI)Alt + F11 = To switch to banner screenAlt + F12 = To switch the VMkernel Log Console In this article, we will discuss one issue respecting ESXi Shell or console […]
The root user (or superuser) is a special user account that is present on all Linux and Unix-like systems. It has full access to every command and any resource on the system without any restrictions. If you are coming to Ubuntu from another Linux distribution, you may wonder what the default root password is or how to change the root password. By default, in Ubuntu, […]
Xrdp is an open-source implementation of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) that allows you to graphically control a remote system. With RDP, you can log in to the remote machine and create a real desktop session the same as if you had logged in to a local machine. This tutorial explains how to install and configure Xrdp server on CentOS 8. Installing Desktop Environment […]