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Upgrading from ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 with VCSA 6.5

December 21, 2016 Jonny Update Manager, vCenter, VMware, vSphere

This is part four 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 matter or upgrading

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Upgrading from VCSA 6.0 to 6.5 Part 2

December 21, 2016 Jonny vCenter, VMware

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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Upgrading from VCSA 6.0 to 6.5 Part 1

December 21, 2016 Jonny Update Manager, vCenter, VMware, vSphere

This is part two 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 matter or upgrading,

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‘The host returns esxupdate error code:15.’ with VSAN and USB Boot Disks

September 13, 2016 Jonny ESXi, Update Manager, VSAN

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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Setup PowerDNS and Poweradmin on Ubuntu with MySQL Backend

July 22, 2016 Jonny DNS, MySql, Nginx, Ubuntu

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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Setup OpenVPN Client on Ubuntu

July 19, 2016 Jonny Linux, Networking, Ubuntu

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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Magento Fatal Error: Call to a member function setQuote() on a non-object in Abstract.php

July 15, 2016 Jonny Magento

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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Update VUM SQL Server Credentials

July 12, 2016 Jonny Databases, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, SQL Server, Update Manager

I’ve been going through my lab and changing generic passwords to much stronger, randomly generated passwords for each service. One service posed a problem: VUM. I updated the ODBC Data Source but vCenter still reported

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Setup MySQL Server on Ubuntu 16.04

July 7, 2016 Jonny Databases, Linux, MySql, Ubuntu

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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Setup Nginx with php 7 on Ubuntu 16.04

July 7, 2016 Jonny Linux, MySql, Nginx

Here’s a quick guide to setting up the http server Nginx with the latest version of php.   Install Nginx Update repositories sudo apt-get update Install Nginx sudo apt-get install nginx Check Nginx is running

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