Ubuntu Server 20.04 has been out for a few days, which I think is a perfect time to build start my migration from Debian to Ubuntu. Now, with Debian, I had a nice Packer setup, that automatically builds base-images. These images have some default packages installed, some miscellaneous settings and a...
It's been a day since vSphere 6,5 came out, and sysadmins all over the world have been updating their test systems. This works really well if you update to vCenter 6.5 first, since it has the Update Manager integrated.
Upgrading to ESXi 6.5 worked fine on my Dell R710, which was running ESXi 6.0u2...
IPv6 and online.net
The experimenting
Shoutout to /u/dantho and /u/CBRJack for helping me with this
I've recently started to mess around with IPv6, mostly for the reasons of being future-proof (somewhat), a lot of free addresses and also cause it seemed interesting. Now at home I already h...
What we're going to do in this Part
Continuing on from last part, we're going to provision VMware's ESXi. Since ESXi is based on Linux, we can actually do this without a separate server or special configuration, we just need a few files.
It’s colo time baby!
the structure of this post was totally not stolen from MonsterMuffin (<3 bb)
After a recent power bill reminded me that Servers were not free to run, but rather pulled some rather big power costs behind them, I decided to downsize.
My initial Plan involved selling 3 of m...