As we all move to a digital age, adding more and more personal information to the internet security has become a real issue, in recent years there have been hack attempts on well-known brands, incl...

This is something that I was unaware of until recently when I was looking into the usage of V-Vols. It appears that VMware have made some major improvements to the ways we handle snapshots and cons...

This tutorial takes you through setting up Teamspeak 3 on CentOS 7, I will also be going through using a MariaDB database for the backend and a custom system services script. We are using MariaDB ...

When deploying a Teamspeak3 server one thing that is vital for the first time startup is to make a note of the privilege key, but what do you do if for some reason you didn’t write it down? In thi...

As most of you will now be aware VMware decided to end availability for vCloud Director and shift to only allow service providers to utilise the product. Originally the idea was that organisation...

Recently I have been playing in my lab with VCSA and vCNS, I found that when I tried to connect to the vCenter I received this error: Failed to connect to VMware Lookup Service. SSL certificate ve...

There are multiple ways to tell if a virtual machine has thick or thin provisioned VM Disk. Below are some of the ways I am able to see this information: VI Client (thick client) Select the V...

I was recently asked if it was possible to update vCenter alarms in bulk with email details. So i set about writing the below script, basically this script will go through looking for any alarms th...

In this article I will be showing you guys the new ESXi Embedded Host Client, this has been long awaited by many users of the Free ESXi host and allows much better management of the host. Check o...

I spent quite some time trying to get the OpenVPN Server working on the Mikrotik Router with a Linux client, It caused some pain and I didn’t want others to go through that. I have therefore writte...