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Starlink Roam 10GB Plan 

Starlink’s new Roam 10GB service plan gives you reliable, high-speed internet on the go. For £8/mo, get 10GB of data which is equivalent to a full day of normal internet use. If you need more, simply add it in your account for £2/GB. This is most welcomed plan and offers good value for money if you only
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GNS3 VM on ESXi 802.1q link to external network

This post details my experiences getting the GNS3 VM on ESXi to work with 802.1q. I’ve been using the GNS3 VM on VMware Workstation for years, so far I’ve been unable to get virtual devices on the GNS3 VM to link to external networks using 802.1q. From my research I believed the issue to be
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Restore VMware ESXi Host Configuration

This is a follow up post to the last one about backing up VMware host configurations. This post details how to Restore VMware ESXi Host Configuration. Restoring a configuration requires the host to be running the same product and build version that the backup was taken from. This was harder than I thought to work out
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VMware ESXi Host Backups Python Script

This post details a VMware ESXi host backups Python Script I use in my home lab. VCSA does not backup the configuration for the hosts it manages. Config items like vswitch, vnic, MTU settings, kernel interfaces and various other settings would be lost if the host fails. Re-building a host manually, especially hosts with complex
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