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This is part three in a four part series on upgrading to vSphere 6.5 You can find the rest of the series here This section of the tutorial will deal with the post VCSA 6.5
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I was recently having some difficulty with VMware Update Manager. Remediating each host in my lab failed with The host returns esxupdate error code:15. This was one of those very satisfying situations that I managed
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PowerDNS and Poweradmin can be combined to create a simple, lightweight and easy to manage authoritative DNS server. These instructions have been tested on Ubuntu LTS releases 14.04 and 16.04. This guide assumes you have
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I was recently setting up some AWS EC2 instances for lab redundancy and decided to create a VPN tunnel straight to my homelab for a bit of extra security. Thankfully, clients are much more simple
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After a nice few days off work for the annual Northern Irish, festivities, let’s call them; I returned to a ticket raising an issue whereby Magento was reporting an error when returning to our store
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Here’s a quick guide to setting up the popular database server MySQL on Ubuntu 16.04. Install MySQL Update repositories sudo apt-get update Install MySQL sudo apt-get install mysql-server Enter a root password when prompted
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