Exporting the details from a vSphere installation can be extremely useful prior to a migration to VMware Cloud on AWS. Alternatively it can be a useful way to gather a point-in-time snapshot of a V...
Starting / stopping of a vSphere environment over SSH can be a quick and easy way to manage a lab or test environment which needs to be powered off most of the time but used sometimes for testing. ...
Deploying HCX (VMware Hybrid Cloud Extensions) is considered to be complex and difficult by most. It doesn’t help that it’s usually one of those things you’d only do once so it doesn’t pay to spend...
There are many cool custom keyboard builds and I wanted to give it a go. This will document the process, parts and steps. Part list Some parts can be purchased and some are 3D printed. I printe...
Quick (?) steps for connecting a Mikrotik router in an on-premises lab or DC to an AWS VPC using a VPN. All commands done over AWS CLI and Mikrotik CLI. Note: The values for tunnel IP addresses an...
When migrating from an on-premises DC to VMware Cloud on AWS it is usually recommended to use Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX) from VMware. However, in some cases the IT team managing the on-prem DC is...
With CentOS being less than attractive to use now when Red Hat has changed how it is updated, the Amazon AMI2 Linux distribution can be an excellent alternative. However, when deploying an Amazon ...
The environmental control system for Mr. Snuggles the ball python is now nearly finished. Throughout the last couple of weeks I’ve worked on learning Fusion 360 in order to create a new case. The p...
As part of revising the entire environmental control system for the ball python “Mr. Snuggles” I’ve re-done the code for getting sensor telemetry and control of relays for heat mats and the heat la...
Two years ago I built the “Snakeinator 2000” system for controlling temperature, humidity and lighting for my ballpython “Mr. Snuggles”. Currently I’m re-working the wiring and updating the sensors...