How To Setup ClamAV Antivirus Scanner in Kubernetes
Assumptions: A Kubernetes cluster is already setupThese are installed prior: Helm, MetalLB Load Balancer,A static…
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PowerShell: Overcome Issues with Error 13932 in SCVMM When Refreshing Virtual Machines
Dealing with Clusters # refreshCluster.ps1 # Function to refresh a cluster in VMM in anticipation…
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Kubernetes – Pausing Applications by Scaling Deployments or Stateful Sets
# Pause application kubectl scale deploy nextcloud --replicas=0 kubectl scale statefulsets nextcloud-db-postgresql --replicas=0 kubectl scale…
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Installing VMWare Tools on Linux Guest Virtual Machines
Installation Process # Installing VMWare Tools mkdir /mnt/cdrom mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz /tmp/ cd…
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Kubernetes: How to Set Node Affinity
Kubernetes pods' Quality of Service (QoS) can be controlled by setting node affinity. Here are…
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Resolving a Corrupted Data Store in ESXi
Scenario: A USB disk has been mounted as a data store and subsequently removed. This…
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How To Install Rancher Onto a Kubernetes Cluster
Step 1: Add Rancher Repo into Helm Source: https:// rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/installation/install-rancher-on-k8s/ # Add Rancher repo helm…
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How to Deploy PiHole in a Kubernetes Cluster
Step 0: Create NFS Share Ensure that the NFS share has been created with these…
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Kubernetes Container Deployment with NFS Persistent Volumes
Introduction: Update: we have provided a practical application of the knowledge conveyed in this article…
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How to Run OpenMediaVault with Pass-through Disks in VMWare ESXi
Assumptions: 1. The ESXi host in this lab is available with three (3) 1TB hard…
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Step by Step Kubernetes Application Hosting: Persistent Storage, Pod Creation, Deployment Plan, Service Clustering, and Ingress Routing
Overview Update: we have a new article which goes directly into a production-style setup of…
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How To Install Kubernetes on Ubuntu 20.04 Server
Overview Docker is available in 2 versions, Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (DE). The…
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How To Change VMWare ESXi Hypervisor’s IP Address and Host Name
# List hypervisor's network interfaces esxcli network ip interface ipv4 get # Sample output [root@esx76:~]…
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How to Clone VMWare Virtual Machine using CLI
1. SSH into the ESXi host to perform VM cloning via Command Line Interface (CLI)…
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Enabling Virtualization Extensions in BIOS
The following steps are general instructions to perform this task on most computer bios: Boot…
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How To Inject NIC Drivers into the ESXi Installation Image
Update 1/10/2021: ESXi-7.0 isn't compatible with the drivers in our previous illustration. Thus, this is…
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Linux: How to Manually Create a USB Bootable Drive for ESXi
Step 1: Find the USB mount root@kimlinux:/home/kim# ls /dev/s*/dev/sda /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb3 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sg1 /dev/snapshot /dev/stdin/dev/sdb…
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VMWare CVE-2018-3646 Mitigation
Enable ESXi Side-Channel-Aware Scheduler Version 2 (SCAv2) using ESXCLI SSH to an ESXi host or open a…
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PowerShell: Get Spectre Meltdown Patching Versions of Hyper-V Hosts
function getHyperVHostsInForest{ function includeRSAT{ $ErrorActionPreference='stop' [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12 #$rsatWindows7x32='https://download.microsoft.com/download/4/F/7/4F71806A-1C56-4EF2-9B4F-9870C4CFD2EE/Windows6.1-KB958830-x86-RefreshPkg.msu' $rsatWindows7x64='https://download.microsoft.com/download/4/F/7/4F71806A-1C56-4EF2-9B4F-9870C4CFD2EE/Windows6.1-KB958830-x64-RefreshPkg.msu' $rsatWindows81='https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/8/E/18EA4843-C596-4542-9236-DE46F780806E/Windows8.1-KB2693643-x64.msu' $rsat1709 = "https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/D/8/1D8B5022-5477-4B9A-8104-6A71FF9D98AB/WindowsTH-RSAT_WS_1709-x64.msu" $rsat1803…
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Hyper-V Set CompatibilityForMigrationEnabled
$vmName='TESTVM' function enableCpuCompatibility($vmName){ $compatibilityForMigration=(Get-VMProcessor $vmName).CompatibilityForMigrationEnabled if(!$compatibilityForMigration){ $vmIsRunning=(get-vm $vmname).State -eq 'Running' if($vmIsRunning){stop-vm $vmName} Set-VMProcessor$vmName -CompatibilityForMigrationEnabled 1…
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