The compute in my home lab consists of six Intel NUCs. I hope to describe my rationale for choosing these PCs in greater detail in a future post, but for my purposes they work well. I’m fortunate enough these days to have a closet in which I run my entire lab environment, and which will […]
Author: Matt
“Exception occured in postInstallHook” Updating vCenter With a Custom EVC Mode
Follow these steps to avoid or fix the “Exception occurred in postInstallHook” error in upgrades to vCenter 7.0u3 instances with custom EVC modes.
ASIX USB NICs and A Massive Home Lab Performance Improvement
My ESXi USB NIC storage performance was far below expectations. I finally identified the culprit. This is what I found — and how I fixed it. ASIX USB NICs vs Realtek USB NICs
Easy Static IP Configuration for Rancher Nodes
The best way to assign static IPs to Rancher nodes running on VMware — plus some thoughts on Infrastructure as Code and creating disposable OS templates.
ExtractPFX: Part 2
I enjoyed writing a bash script to extract PEMs from PFX files. I hadn’t written much python lately, so I decided to do the same thing with a python script.
ExtractPFX: Part 1
I found myself frequently extracting PEM certs and private keys from PFX files. Here I introduce a bash script I wrote to make that job easier.
Hello World!
An introduction of myself and my blog, with a little background on how/why I started blogging.