Making Pi-hole Highly Available (and Fixing a Hidden Frigate Disk Trap)
A single Pi-hole reboot used to take my whole network’s DNS/DHCP offline. Here’s how I added a secondary DNS Pi-hole on a separate host, kept it in sync,…
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Blame the Network Team
It's Friday! I'm ready for the weekend. Remember WAY back in 2019 when the offices were open and all of your IT problems were the Networking Team's fault?…
vSphere Ports and Protocols. All of them.
A few posts back, we let you know about a pretty cool TechZone article that gave you every VMware Horizon port you could ever need or want. The…
Every VMware Horizon Application Firewall Network Port you will ever need! (for v7.x at least)
Here is a great little Friday post. Short and simple and offering great value going into the weekend! ;-) I ran across a great webpost from VMware on…
Solar-Putty: The free, feature-packed Putty alternative you’ve been waiting for!
Putty is awesome! It is a main staple for most IT professionals and Home Automation hobbyists alike. Need a secure way to SSH into a Linux machine? Putty…
VMware Distributed switches or stick with Standard switches?
Distributed switches have been around for a couple of years now. I run into them at about half the clients I work with. For context, at least half…
Quick guide: Port forwarding on your Sagemcom FaST (F@ST) 5260
I have searched the internet High and Low and was unable to find some simple port forwarding instructions for my Spectrum provided Sagemcom F@st 5260 Modem. Most of…
Stick to the Basics–vMotion fails at 21%
I was working with a client recently and after doing a memory upgrade and vSphere upgrade from 5.x to 6.0, my vMotion activity began to fail when moving…
Invalid Backing on a Virtual Machine’s Network adapter.
Have you ever noticed Invalid backing on your Network Adapter in the Virtual Machine Property screen? Of course not! You are an administrator! …But if you want to…