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GNS3 VM on ESXi 802.1q link to external network

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Nick Moody
Monday, 23 July 2018 / Published in Lab, Networking
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

Restore VMware ESXi Host Configuration

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Nick Moody
Friday, 01 June 2018 / Published in Automation, Lab, Networking
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

VMware ESXi Host Backups Python Script

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Nick Moody
Saturday, 19 May 2018 / Published in Automation, Lab
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

Upgrade a VMware ESXi host that VCSA is running on

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Nick Moody
Sunday, 25 March 2018 / Published in Lab, Networking, Security
How do you upgrade a VMware ESXi host that VCSA is running on? well, you can not use VCSA VUM (vCenter Server Appliance, VMware Update Manager). In this case we have a chicken and the egg problem. This is due to maintenance mode required on the host prior to patching but maintenance mode requires VCSA

Cisco SG300 backup python script

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Nick Moody
Friday, 16 February 2018 / Published in Automation, Lab, Networking
New script published to GitHub, a Cisco SG300 backup python script used to backup my SG300’s in my home lab. The script uses Netmiko to handle the ssh connection. The configuration from each switch is saved to a TFTP server in my home lab. I’ll shortly be adding an alternative version of the script which

Implementing Ubiquiti Unifi into the home network

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Nick Moody
Tuesday, 28 November 2017 / Published in Lab, Networking, Security
This post details my observations and experiences Implementing Ubiquiti Unifi into the home network. If you intend to use Unifi devices exclusively then the kit will work straight out the box with little configuration required, no point in reading this post TL;DR. On the other hand if you have a fairly elaborate home network which
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Lenovo TS140 VMware ESXi 6.5 Storage Driver Issue

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Nick Moody
Saturday, 11 March 2017 / Published in Lab
This post details a Lenovo TS140 VMware ESXi 6.5 Storage Driver Issue. This issue is not limited to the TS140’s as I discovered during my research to the problem that a number of other servers are also affected. My TS140’s originally had ESXi 6.0 installed on HDD’s. I was experiencing IO issues so opted to
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Consolidating VM’s In The Home Lab

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Nick Moody
Thursday, 09 February 2017 / Published in Lab, Personal
For the last few weeks I’ve been running out of RAM on both my hypervisors. Each server has the supported total of 32GB RAM and 1 x CPU Socket. The question I’d been asking myself was, do I purchase a third server or do I start consolidating VM’s in the home lab? The easiest and
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Server 2012 Domain Controller Not Authenticating Users

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Nick Moody
Thursday, 01 December 2016 / Published in Lab, Networking
I don’t usually write “this how you configure this” type blogs but for this particular problem I experienced I’ll make an exception. This post details how I resolved an issue with a Windows server 2012 domain controller not authenticating users. Up until I purchased a VM backup solution I was manually and occasionally taking backups

Implementing a VM backup solution for the home lab

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Nick Moody
Tuesday, 15 November 2016 / Published in Lab
I’ve recently finished implementing a VM backup solution for the home lab. In this post I’ll detail some experiences I had while selecting a backup software vendor.  A few months back I lost a Windows Server 2012 domain controller due to disk corruption. Whilst taking a snapshot in VMware something went wrong and the VM
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