NEUDORFER.TECH
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – – Arthur C. Clarke
I was recently approached by our server team that we were seeing slow transfer rates on VMs. They noticed it first in their application but were able to run a dd command to shower certain VMs were only getting 4MB/s when they should have been getting up to 1GB/s. This only happened when ran against
DetailsI’ve been having a ton of issues with NFS datastores in one of my vcenters. They’re running Dell R640s with two NICs and everything is running fine except when you run IO speed tests. Working with VMware support they pointed out CRCerrors on one of the ports on my host. Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) Error indicates
Detailsor neudorfer dot tech 4.0 I finally decided to set aside some time to get this site back up and running. After putting it in the Oracle Cloud Free tier, using this guide , I found out the hard was that it had a habit of shutting itself down. I was luckily able to build
DetailsQuick test to make sure posts still work. Posts still work but plugins cannot be deleted due to permission issues. Need to figure that out. Things I’ve learned multi-container applications and automate the workflow using Compose Setting up docker in oracle lets encrypt docker/nginx/wordpress SSH keys Terraform https://github.com/rafaelzimmermann/remote-docker
DetailsI’ve made a lot of progress but after successfully adding 200+ hosts to the domain using the steps in this article here, I started to run into errors. A ton of trial and error later, I’ve included most of the common problems to what I found below. These are not necessarily all the issues you will
DetailsSo a few days ago I woke up to an email warning me that my site was down. Not a huge deal because this site is just for fun. I decided to start tackling the issue this morning. Logged in and saw some docker containers weren’t running. I proceeded to ‘docker-compose down’ and ‘docker-compose up
DetailsAn issue I’ve run into multiple times is duplicate IP addresses on VMKernals. This becomes a bigger issue when the IP address that is taken is from a Filer that also hosts other storage. When you have two devices fighting over traffic like that it can take down the device. To mitigate that issue we’ve
DetailsUPDATE – Using C:\Windows\py.exe fixed a few issues. I’m not sure if it removes the need for the dependencies. Find the official VMware Compatibility Guide Here From the Fling Summary “The ESXi Compatibility Checker is a python script that can validate VMware hardware compatibility and upgrade issues of ESXi.” It took me a few
DetailsDescription – OpenSLP as used in ESXi has a heap-overflow vulnerability. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Important severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 8.8. Functionality Impacts – With the workaround, CIM clients which uses SLP to find CIM servers over port #427 will not be
DetailsThe other week I had a request to join all our ESXi hosts to our Active Directory domain so we could authenticate through our users accounts. This allows for better security, tracking of each users activity, as well as giving us the opportunity to create unique and complex root passwords for each hosts. To
Details