Blog VMware vSphere
27. June 2022

Create VM Customization Specifications for Windows Server 2019

In this post we will see on how you can create VM Customization Specifications policy in VMware vCenter for a Windows Server 2019 VM Template. VM Customization Specifications allows you to configure few options for your Guest OS which is running inside your VM. You can configure things like Timezone, Admin Password, Licesing, Network etc. The most important requirement to apply this policies is, that […]

Home Lab Stage VI
22. June 2022

irgNET – LAB 6.0

Welcome to the 6th stage of my HomeLab. My entire datacenter is restored with the newest vSphere 7.0 U3e, in the meantime, I have performed DryRuns with my backup, everything is as it should be. I have removed a few services and added new ones, some services that were active before, will be implemented in the future. But let us take a look at the […]

Dell News
31. May 2022

Dell Technologies World 2022

Today I want to tell you about my unique experience from my first participation of the Dell Technologies World 2022 in Las Vegas. It was like a theme park for passionated technologists. First, let me start with my incredible view from my hotel room – wow: Right after the breakfast, I came across one of our Computacenter banners: After that, the first session – Dell […]

Home Lab Stage V
19. April 2022

irgNET – LAB 5.0 U4

Welcome to the least hoped for state of my HomeLabs Stage 5 Update 4. As you will notice, I have added a lot of red icons to the drawing. Now this is the BIG DISASTER state, which happened as described here: I will be brief, it is extremely annoying and I do not wish it on anyone. Nevertheless, I am still in the rebuild process […]

Advanced Tutorials Blog Linux Ubuntu
11. April 2022

Creating Ubuntu OS Custom ISO

As part of a customer project I had to do a complete offline installation of an Ubuntu server with various packages: Linux: nano zip unzip tree make java (JRE & JDK) ant openssh net-tools htop Python 3.6.9 (prereqs for Python are gcc openssl-devel bzip2-devel libffi-devel) Python: paramiko pandas ntc-templates After a little research on the internet, I found out that downloading .deb files is not […]

Blog Container Debian
24. March 2022

How to Install Bitwarden Password Manager on Debian 11

Bitwarden is an open-source solution that lets you manage your accounts and protect them with passwords of varying complexity. For this purpose, the program also offers a two-step authentication process, among other things. As with most popular password managers, Bitwarden secures data using 256-bit AES encryption. The data vault is then accessed via a master password, which they must assign during the installation process. The […]

Blog Container Rocky Linux
22. March 2022

How to install Bitwarden Password Manager on CentOS Stream 8

Bitwarden is an open-source solution that lets you manage your accounts and protect them with passwords of varying complexity. For this purpose, the program also offers a two-step authentication process, among other things. As with most popular password managers, Bitwarden secures data using 256-bit AES encryption. The data vault is then accessed via a master password, which they must assign during the installation process. The […]

Blog Container
19. March 2022

How to install and upgrade Portainer – Best Docker UI Manager

Portainer is an open source container management tool that eliminates the need to write code. For this, Portainer provides a graphical user interface for everything that can be realized via a Docker command line. Within Ecosystem, Portainer allows users to manage their own containerized applications, for example, customer applications or tools for internal use. This applies both to containers operated individually and to operation on […]

Blog Container Rocky Linux
18. March 2022

Install Docker Compose on CentOS Stream 8

This guide will show you how to Install the Latest Docker Compose on CentOS Stream 8. Docker Compose is a tool designed to define and release multicontainer applications. With Compose, you can create a YAML file to define the services that you can start or stop with a single command. Definitely, access to the Terminal as a user with sudo privileges. Step 1: You need […]

Blog ESXi VMware
17. March 2022

VMware ESXi 7.0 – Remove Host Client session timeout

In VMware ESXi 7.0 the Host Client Web Interface session timeouts automatically every 15 minutes and then you have to log back in to the ESXi Host Client Web Interface again. To avoid this tedious situation you can increase the session timeout changing an advanced configuration parameter in the ESXi Host Client Web Interface. !!! WARNING !!! For security reasons, timouts should be kept low and not removed. Using your […]