When it comes to building cheap and reliable home lab Intel NUC computers are huge success. Their low power consumption and small footprint makes them perfect for almost any kind of home lab, including building a VSAN lab. Recently I ran into the issue where I needed an additional network card for my NUC. I needed to transfer vCenter server from iSCSI storage, to a VSAN datastore on the same host. Continue reading “How to build latest VMware ESXi ISO image for Intel NUC 4th generation”
How to use vCenter web client to intuitively set flash and capacity tier tags
vCenter web client 6 offers now the ability to set flash and capacity tier tags for all flash storage options for VSAN. If you use ESXi Embeded Host Client, you can even use Partition Editor to clear partition table/delete existing partitions on the disk(s). Continue reading “How to use vCenter web client to intuitively set flash and capacity tier tags”
All Flash vSAN – How to tag an SSD disk as storage tier
Traditional vSAN is the combination of cache component based on flash storage and capacity layer based usually on traditional magnetic disks. Since v6.0, vSAN supports All Flash storage. In other words, both the caching and the storage layer can be made up from flash based storage, like SSD is. Here I will cover how to use the command line to perform device tagging. For GUI version, please refer to the article in the section Related Posts on the bottom of this page. Continue reading “All Flash vSAN – How to tag an SSD disk as storage tier”
How to automatically save Gmail to your Gdrive
If you are using swaks to mail your scripts to your Gmail as backup, now we can automatically save attachment to Gdrive. From Gdrive you can either sync them with your computer or any other cloud service. Continue reading “How to automatically save Gmail to your Gdrive”
How to block ads with local DNS server
Before you proceed with this tutorial, there are few prerequisites you need to fulfil. First, you either local server or server on the Internet that you (can) use as your own DNS server, second, you need skills to install and configure Linux based DNS server – Bind, third, you need a second IP address if you already have web server running on your primary IP address. I will focus on Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Snappy Ubuntu Core). Continue reading “How to block ads with local DNS server”