For a while now I’ve been thinking about building a new, more beefy, version of my home lab. I’m running some nested VMware labs, which require a lot of hardware. This renewal will involve, once ag...

Friday late afternoon, the end of the working day, a message about a customer reaching out because of many vMotions in vCenter that are not able to complete. More than 275 emails from vCenter with ...

I don’t have a blog post about ‘what is VMware NSX-T‘ yet -I’ll create a more extensive one in the future- but I just needed to share this with the world. I wanted to deploy a so-called ‘One-Arm Lo...

In a previous post that I wrote about VyOS, I’ve shown that the L2TP VPN is using 10.255.255.0 as an IP address. In this blog post, I’ll dive into why this is a problem for me and how to change tha...

While working for a client I got into a situation where I was unable to remove a snapshot from a VM. This was quite annoying because the error message that was shown didn’t give me that much inform...

Now that the lab is up for a few months I noticed that I already installed quite a few Debian Linux VMs. Debian Linux is the default OS that I use when I just want a lightweight server to run some ...

Welcome to the 5th and final part of my blog series about the network configuration that I have built for my VyOS routers! In part 1 I gave a design overview followed by part 2 with the firewall, D...

Welcome to part 4 of my blog series about the network configuration that I build for my VyOS routers! In part 1 I gave a design overview followed by part 2 with the firewall, DHCP, DNS, and NTP con...

Welcome to part 3 of my blog series about the network configuration that I build for my VyOS routers! In part 1 I gave a design overview followed by part 2 with the firewall, DHCP, DNS, and NTP con...

Welcome to part 2 of my blog series about the network configuration that I build for my VyOS routers! In part 1 I gave a design overview and in this part, I’ll write about the firewall configuratio...