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 16, 2015 | General IT, IT, Misc, VDI, VMWare
Now that the appliance has been deployed and is working the next step is to perform the initial appliance configuration. This is pretty straight forward. To get started all you need to do is to point your browser to the URL of the appliance that was created in the...
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 | 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 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...
