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Solaris 11 Networking with ipadm (Basic)
The following concise post is intended as a reference to the networking commands used to satisfy basic networking requirements on a Solaris 11 host. Using dladm and ipadm commands to modify the live...
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Configure Solaris 11 ISCSI Initiator
With my ISCSI Target configured on FreeNAS and my Solaris 11 Global Zone installed, it’s time to configure the ISCSI initiator to discover the ISCSI target using the second NIC in my Solaris 11 host...
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ESXi UI timeout
You may find that your ESXi web-based UI frustratingly times out after a few minutes during attempted uploads of large files to your Datastore, such as .iso’s. You can disable the time out altogether....
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Connecting to SPARC Server ILOM console
This post covers connecting to the server console via the SER MGT port and using a terminal emulator to assign a static IP address to the NET MGT port on an Oracle Solaris SPARC Server. It also covers...
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Solaris P2V Process
This post is a work-in-progress. The initial content is taken directly from Oracle’s own knowledge base here. In time, it is my intention to augment the fundamental steps laid out below with...
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PS4 Won’t log in to PSN
A major annoyance with the Sony Playstation 4 is that intermittently the PS4 won’t log in to PSN. And unless it successfully logs into the PlayStation Network, pretty much all your apps are useless....
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Separate IP Address Octets in Excel
If you find yourself with a spreadsheet containing hundreds of servers, and there’s an IP Address Column, you may want to create 4 additional columns, each containing each of the four octets of the IP...
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vCenter Server Appliance installer fails on Linux
If you’ve downloaded the vCenter Server Appliance .iso file, unpacked it to a folder on your Linux workstation, then hit a problem during installation reading the .ovf file during deployment to your...
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Fix Windows 10 Slowness/Lag
Windows 10 Slowness seems to bug most users, with a constant degree of lag when flicking between tasks. It can be stressful and disruptive to your reaching a productive, flow state. Most modern...
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Protect your privacy with a VPN
Protecting your privacy doesn’t need to be as complicated as using all manner of CIA-beating tech to hide yourself and your computer from the evils that lurk on the interwebs these days, where...
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Ping a list of hosts
The following shell script automates a ping test across a list of hosts. The format of the expected host-list file is… <hostname1> <ipaddress1> <hostname2> <ipaddress2>...
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Sun Oracle SPARC Server Timeline
A quick and dirty diagram that illustrates the history of Sun (now Oracle) SPARC Server hardware that can be useful for ageing legacy hardware still lurking in your datacentre. The post Sun Oracle...
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Linux Cheatsheets
The following post is for convenience where solutions and answers to your everyday IT challenges are not found in the many posts published on the site. It serves as a single point of download for many...
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DevOps in a Nutshell
What is DevOps? DevOps is the application of the Development life cycle to your Infrastructure Operations, Datacentre and Cloud computing environments beneath. Yes, the Developers are coming over the...
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Installing ExpressVPN on Manjaro
The title of this post is deliberately misleading, but that’s for a good reason. The likelihood is, you are an ExpressVPN subscriber (the worlds most popular VPN service provider and arguably the...
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Rapid VM Deployment using Vagrant
I need a VM and I need it asap. Vagrant is designed to be the quickest way to a running VM, and I’m impressed. I have VirtualBox running on my trusty Dell XPS 13 laptop; “Sputnik” (named after the...
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Automation with Ansible
The DevOps revolution has no end of brilliant projects and products that promise to get you closer to the “Infrastructure as Code” ideology. I’ve briefly introduced the rapid deployment of virtual...
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Fun with Cowsay
The terminal can get a little tiresome by the end of a full working week, so why not use cowsay to add a little fun to your stdout? Just be sure to check its actually installed before you start calling...
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Installing different Java JRE on Linux
It you need to install a newer/alternative/multiple version(s) of the Java Runtime Environment on a RHEL Server, read the following guide. It will enable you to switch between multiple installed...
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NFS Server and Client on Centos 7
Here is a quick and dirty working example of an NFS Server setup on Centos 7 that allows anonymous connectivity from any host to an exported filesystem and a Client mount from Fedora. It can be used...
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