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jameskilbycouk

Some ramblings usually about computers

Category: VMware/VMware Cloud on AWS/vSAN

VMC – vSAN ESA

Posted On November 17, 2023November 17, 2023 By James

vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) was announced at VMware Explore last year (2022) and while it’s been available for our on-premise customers for nearly a year it hasn’t been available in VMC until now…. With the release of the M24 version of VMC. It is now an option for newly Continue Reading

Category: Networking

Configuring a Zen Internet and City Fibre connection with a 3rd party router

Posted On November 15, 2023November 17, 2023 By James

Back in July I bought a new house and one of the best things about the property was that it was already in a City Fibre location. That meant I could take my Zen internet connection with me but ditch the ADSL (and Phone Line requirement). This gave me a Continue Reading

Category: Kubernetes/TrueNAS Scale

TrueNAS Scale Useful Commands

Posted On November 13, 2023November 17, 2023 By James
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I have very much fallen down the rabbit hole with TrueNAS and although the GUI is very good occasionally I need to jump to the command line. This is a list of the commands that I might need to use. I will update this page with anything else I find Continue Reading

Category: Hosting/Personal

Analytics in a privacy focused world

Posted On November 10, 2023November 17, 2023 By James

I recently helped my friend Dean Lewis @veducate with some hosting issues. As part of the testing of this he kindly gave me a login to his WordPress instance. He has been a pretty prolific blogger over the years pumping out an amazing amount of really good content. It also Continue Reading

Category: VMware/Personal/vSphere

Advanced Deploy VMware vSphere 7.x 3V0-22.21N

Posted On November 10, 2023November 17, 2023 By James

Yesterday I sat and passed the above exam. It had been on my todo list for a good number of years. With the current pause in the Broadcom VMware takeover deal. I had some downtime and decided to use one of the three exam vouchers VMware give me each year. Continue Reading

Category: Homelab/VMware

Nvidia Tesla P4 Homelab Setup

Posted On October 23, 2023November 17, 2023 By James

A little while ago I decided to play with vGPU in my homelab. This was something I had dabbled with in the past but never really had the time or need to get working properly. The first thing that I needed was a GPU. I did have a Dell T20 Continue Reading

Category: VMware/Personal

VMware – Going out with a Bang!

Posted On October 7, 2023November 17, 2023 By James

There is a lot of uncertainty with VMware at the moment. This is all due to the pending acquisition by Broadcom. There are a lot of unknowns for the staff and customers about what the company will look like in the future. I certainly have some concerns mainly just with Continue Reading

Category: Homelab/Storage

Homelab Storage Refresh (Part 1)

Posted On May 23, 2023November 11, 2023 By James
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Background I have just completed the move of all my production and media-based storage/services to TrueNAS Scale. ( I will just refer to this as TrueNAS) This is based on my HP Z840 and I have now retired my faithful Synology DS918+ and DX517 expansion bay. (Those have gone to Continue Reading

Category: Runecast/VMware

Runecast Remediation Script’s

Posted On May 16, 2023November 17, 2023 By James

I am a huge fan of the Runecast product and luckily as a vExpert they give out NFR licences for my lab. One of the really cool features I wanted to mention today was the remediation script function. I have been playing with storage a lot in my lab recently Continue Reading

Category: Cloudflare/Hosting/Wordpress

WordPress Hosting with Cloudflare Pages

Posted On May 14, 2023November 17, 2023 By Jamescomment

I have been using Cloudflare to protect my web assets for a really long time. Throughout that time Cloudflare has been improving there capabilities and approximately 2 years ago I decided to move this blog into their worker’s product. This meant that the site was 100% served from their datacentre’s Continue Reading

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