by Dean | Nov 9, 2015 | Common Sense, General IT, IT, Linux, Microsoft, Tutorial, Virtualisation, VMWare
My home lab is a single workstation that runs the free version of ESXi. I don’t really have much of a need for more then that so I don’t want to go spending large amounts of money on licences etc that I really am not going to make good use of. So today...
by Dean | Jan 15, 2015 | General IT, IT, VDI, Virtualisation, VMWare
I am setting up a Horizon Workspace setup at work and figured it would be a good idea to document this. This will form Part 1 of the series. To get started, here is the items you will need before you start A name for the machine. In this case I am going to call it...
by Dean | Aug 21, 2014 | General IT, HyperV, IT, Microsoft, Virtualisation
You have your machine all setup and ready, now it is time to add the machine into a HA HyperV Cluster. Here are the steps to getting that machine setup. Open the Fail Over Cluster Manager Right click on the cluster you want to add the machines into and select...
by Dean | Jun 26, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Linux, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Virtualisation
In the final part to this series of posts, I would like to outline a few of the issues that I encountered when setting up DRBD. Split Brain With a two node cluster, this is probably the biggest issue that arises. Split brain is when the communication between the hosts...
by Dean | Jun 18, 2014 | Crazy Idea, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Linux, monitoring, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Virtualisation
Now that all the heavy lifting part of this is done. I wanted to write down a few little tips and points to do with this. Over all I couldn’t be happier with the way it works and how well it handles what I have thrown at it. But like with all IT (and especially...
by Dean | Jun 12, 2014 | Crazy Idea, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Linux, Misc, SAAS (Software as a Service), Virtualisation
Now that we have two machines that are identical (With the exception of IP and host name.) The next step is to download, install and configure DRBD. To achieve this I used a few posts and combined them into the setup that I wanted to setup. Some of the posts include...
