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2022²

January²

Migrating from Google Workspaces to iCloud+

January 25, 2022 · Myles Gray

New Blog, Who Dis?

January 18, 2022 · Myles Gray

2019⁷

October²

ClusterAPI for vSphere, now with CNS support

October 10, 2019 · Myles Gray

Using Velero for K8s Backup and Restore of CSI Volumes

October 4, 2019 · Myles Gray

June²

First-look: Automated K8s lifecycle with ClusterAPI

June 26, 2019 · Myles Gray

Using cloud-init for VM templating on vSphere

June 9, 2019 · Myles Gray

February¹

Using the vSphere Cloud Provider for K8s to dynamically deploy volumes

February 8, 2019 · Myles Gray

January²

Setting up K8s and the vSphere Cloud Provider using kubeadm

January 28, 2019 · Myles Gray

Creating an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS cloud image for cloning on VMware

January 27, 2019 · Myles Gray

2017¹¹

December¹

vSAN SPBM and vCloud Director

December 2, 2017 · Myles Gray

November¹

Migrating vSAN vmkernel ports to a new subnet

November 3, 2017 · Myles Gray

August²

vCloud Director console proxy and UI on a single interface

August 20, 2017 · Myles Gray

Removing orphaned IPs from NSX using REST API

August 19, 2017 · Myles Gray

July¹

Customer, Partner, Vendor.

July 18, 2017 · Myles Gray

June²

vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive

June 21, 2017 · Myles Gray

Enabling IPv6 with DHCPv6-PD and PPPoE on a Fortigate

June 18, 2017 · Myles Gray

April¹

Veeam Backup job retention PowerShell one-liner

April 19, 2017 · Myles Gray

March³

Implementing a multi-tenant networking platform with NSX

March 23, 2017 · Myles Gray

Designing a networking platform for IaaS multi-tenancy

March 23, 2017 · Myles Gray

Multi-tenant network challenges

March 23, 2017 · Myles Gray

2016¹⁶

November¹

Recovering NSX Manager with corrupt filesystem

November 13, 2016 · Myles Gray

October²

Migrating from VCSA embedded PSC to external PSC

October 30, 2016 · Myles Gray

Designing a modern multi-tenant DC network

October 27, 2016 · Myles Gray

September²

My VCIX6-NV exam experience

September 23, 2016 · Myles Gray

My home datacenter.

September 13, 2016 · Myles Gray

August⁵

Setting up Duo 2FA for Fortigate admin authentication

August 31, 2016 · Myles Gray

Enabling Mini Jumbo Frames (RFC4638) on OpenReach FTTC

August 28, 2016 · Myles Gray

Replicating SAN on openSUSE with VAAI

August 27, 2016 · Myles Gray

Configuring Auto Deploy Stateless Caching in vSphere 6.0

August 19, 2016 · Myles Gray

Building a customised ESXi image for PXE installation

August 9, 2016 · Myles Gray

May¹

vSphere Update Manager – Cannot Scan Host

May 15, 2016 · Myles Gray

April⁴

LSI3108 based controllers now VSAN 6.2 Certified

April 29, 2016 · Myles Gray

Upgrading VMware Integrated Openstack from v2.0.1 to v2.0.3

April 15, 2016 · Myles Gray

Raspberry Pi with Dynamic-DNS using Cloudflare

April 8, 2016 · Myles Gray

In need of a multi-OS, bootable USB? Use an Android phone.

April 7, 2016 · Myles Gray

March¹

Clone VMDK without vCenter (ESXi Free/Standalone ESXi)

March 22, 2016 · Myles Gray

2015²¹

October²

Configure vRealize Orchestrator 6.0.3 with vCenter 6.0 U1

October 29, 2015 · Myles Gray

VSAN Observer RVC in vCenter Appliance 6.0 U1

October 6, 2015 · Myles Gray

August²

Photography Trip to Chernobyl, Ukraine

August 20, 2015 · Myles Gray

VMware NIC Load Balancing and Teaming, the Math

August 11, 2015 · Myles Gray

July¹⁰

Deploying Dell OpenManage on ESXi and vCenter 6

July 26, 2015 · Myles Gray

vSphere HA Configuration fails: Operation Timed Out

July 22, 2015 · Myles Gray

Windows Integrated Auth (SSO) fails in vCenter 6.0

July 21, 2015 · Myles Gray

Using AD signed certificates with vCenter Server Appliance 6

July 19, 2015 · Myles Gray

Creating a vSphere 6 certificate template in Active Directory

July 19, 2015 · Myles Gray

Manually delete custom TCP/IP stack in ESXi

July 17, 2015 · Myles Gray

Enable IGMP/IGMP Snooping on HP ProCurve 2800 series switch

July 6, 2015 · Myles Gray

Increase maximum number of VLANs on HP ProCurve switch

July 6, 2015 · Myles Gray

Re-mount all unmounted or “lost” NFS Datastores

July 2, 2015 · Myles Gray

Flashing over OEM-R BIOS/Firmware on Dell hardware

July 1, 2015 · Myles Gray

June⁵

Upgrading a legacy ReadyNAS from RAIDiator 4.2.x to 6.x

June 25, 2015 · Myles Gray

Replaying Linux CLI commands with history

June 20, 2015 · Myles Gray

Specifying outbound NAT address for policy on a Fortigate

June 19, 2015 · Myles Gray

Scanning for network vulnerabilities using nmap

June 17, 2015 · Myles Gray

Fortigate Unnumbered IP against PPPoE Interface

June 12, 2015 · Myles Gray

March¹

Converting VMware thin disks to thick using Inflate

March 31, 2015 · Myles Gray

February¹

Safely check/remove orphaned VMDK files from ESXi

February 21, 2015 · Myles Gray

2014¹⁵

December⁵

Deploying and Installing your first Juju Charm on Vagrant

December 14, 2014 · Myles Gray

Utilising Kerberos/AD auth in Ubuntu 14.04 with realmd

December 8, 2014 · Myles Gray

Enabling PXE boot options on Fortigate DHCP

December 7, 2014 · Myles Gray

Deploying Cisco VIRL on VMware Workstation – Caveats

December 3, 2014 · Myles Gray

Fix for CBT bug in VMWare Products

December 2, 2014 · Myles Gray

November¹

Deploying OVA/OVF to remote vCenter using OVFTool

November 23, 2014 · Myles Gray

July¹

Check action progress on Dell MD3000i array

July 18, 2014 · Myles Gray

June²

Setting Up Multi-NIC vMotion in vSphere 5.5

June 7, 2014 · Myles Gray

Updating VMWare Horizon Workspace vApp

June 3, 2014 · Myles Gray

April²

Another racecar engine build…

April 16, 2014 · Myles Gray

Using NginX as a load-balancer for VMware Horizon View security servers

April 7, 2014 · Myles Gray

February⁴

Fortigate High Availability – Active/Active – Part 2 – Implementation

February 16, 2014 · Myles Gray

Fortigate High Availability – Active/Active – Part 1 – Preparation

February 11, 2014 · Myles Gray

Changing Fortigate from Switch mode to Interface mode

February 11, 2014 · Myles Gray

Using VMWare’s OVFTool to convert VMX to OVA

February 10, 2014 · Myles Gray

2013¹⁴

December¹

Enabling disk logging on a FortiGate

December 2, 2013 · Myles Gray

November¹

QUBMC – El Chorro Video 2013

November 19, 2013 · Myles Gray

October²

openSUSE Install Graphics Problems?

October 2, 2013 · Myles Gray

Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager on openSUSE

October 2, 2013 · Myles Gray

September⁹

Upgrading vCenter Server Appliance to vCSA 5.5

September 23, 2013 · Myles Gray

Syslogd on FortiOS 5.0.4

September 18, 2013 · Myles Gray

Veeam Hot-Add Mode Fails – Mismatching VMFS block size

September 17, 2013 · Myles Gray

Teaming ReadyNAS Ultra NICs

September 12, 2013 · Myles Gray

Serial and USB Console on Mac OSX

September 11, 2013 · Myles Gray

Change MTU to support Jumbo Frames in FortiOS

September 9, 2013 · Myles Gray

How to test if 9000 MTU/Jumbo Frames are working

September 9, 2013 · Myles Gray

Zero free space using SDelete to shrink Thin Provisioned VMDK

September 5, 2013 · Myles Gray

Extend Dell MD3000i Virtual Disk LUN Size

September 4, 2013 · Myles Gray

February¹

Ice Climbing trip to Scotland

February 11, 2013 · Myles Gray

2012³

November¹

How to: Run emoncms on NginX and PHP5-FPM

November 12, 2012 · Myles Gray

September¹

R53 Mini Cooper S JCW Engine Rebuild

September 13, 2012 · Myles Gray

February¹

Fixing/Flashing a broken motherboard w/ SPIPGM2 and Serial

February 1, 2012 · Myles Gray

2011³

April¹

How To: Use geolocation to get a user’s location and weather from IP address

April 3, 2011 · Myles Gray

March²

Thermite FTW!

March 30, 2011 · Myles Gray

BenchTec Toolbox

March 19, 2011 · Myles Gray

2022 2

January 2

Migrating from Google Workspaces to iCloud+

New Blog, Who Dis?

2019 7

October 2

ClusterAPI for vSphere, now with CNS support

Using Velero for K8s Backup and Restore of CSI Volumes

June 2

First-look: Automated K8s lifecycle with ClusterAPI

Using cloud-init for VM templating on vSphere

February 1

Using the vSphere Cloud Provider for K8s to dynamically deploy volumes

January 2

Setting up K8s and the vSphere Cloud Provider using kubeadm

Creating an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS cloud image for cloning on VMware

2017 11

December 1

vSAN SPBM and vCloud Director

November 1

Migrating vSAN vmkernel ports to a new subnet

August 2

vCloud Director console proxy and UI on a single interface

Removing orphaned IPs from NSX using REST API

July 1

Customer, Partner, Vendor.

June 2

vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive

Enabling IPv6 with DHCPv6-PD and PPPoE on a Fortigate

April 1

Veeam Backup job retention PowerShell one-liner

March 3

Implementing a multi-tenant networking platform with NSX

Designing a networking platform for IaaS multi-tenancy

Multi-tenant network challenges

2016 16

November 1

Recovering NSX Manager with corrupt filesystem

October 2

Migrating from VCSA embedded PSC to external PSC

Designing a modern multi-tenant DC network

September 2

My VCIX6-NV exam experience

My home datacenter.

August 5

Setting up Duo 2FA for Fortigate admin authentication

Enabling Mini Jumbo Frames (RFC4638) on OpenReach FTTC

Replicating SAN on openSUSE with VAAI

Configuring Auto Deploy Stateless Caching in vSphere 6.0

Building a customised ESXi image for PXE installation

May 1

vSphere Update Manager – Cannot Scan Host

April 4

LSI3108 based controllers now VSAN 6.2 Certified

Upgrading VMware Integrated Openstack from v2.0.1 to v2.0.3

Raspberry Pi with Dynamic-DNS using Cloudflare

In need of a multi-OS, bootable USB? Use an Android phone.

March 1

Clone VMDK without vCenter (ESXi Free/Standalone ESXi)

2015 21

October 2

Configure vRealize Orchestrator 6.0.3 with vCenter 6.0 U1

VSAN Observer RVC in vCenter Appliance 6.0 U1

August 2

Photography Trip to Chernobyl, Ukraine

VMware NIC Load Balancing and Teaming, the Math

July 10

Deploying Dell OpenManage on ESXi and vCenter 6

vSphere HA Configuration fails: Operation Timed Out

Windows Integrated Auth (SSO) fails in vCenter 6.0

Using AD signed certificates with vCenter Server Appliance 6

Creating a vSphere 6 certificate template in Active Directory

Manually delete custom TCP/IP stack in ESXi

Enable IGMP/IGMP Snooping on HP ProCurve 2800 series switch

Increase maximum number of VLANs on HP ProCurve switch

Re-mount all unmounted or “lost” NFS Datastores

Flashing over OEM-R BIOS/Firmware on Dell hardware

June 5

Upgrading a legacy ReadyNAS from RAIDiator 4.2.x to 6.x

Replaying Linux CLI commands with history

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