Yesterday I received a mail from Angelo Luciani congratulating me on being recognised as a Nutanix Technology Champion for 2021. After getting in last year, I was hoping to extend this as we didn’t had the chance to meet up in real life, so here goes attempt 2 :). This… Continue reading
Browsing the internet I stumbled upon phpipam.net – an open source IP Address Management (IPAM) tool, based on php with a MySQL database backend. Of course there are more alternatives -paid & free-, but I found this one interesting enough for my homelab. Prerequisites First off I need to provide… Continue reading
Okay, long time since my last post, but the whole COVID thing got me studying again, which was needing my attention a bit. Last week Sunday I saw the following tweet from Jason Samuel that triggered me to work on my LAB again. Monitoring your Synology using ControlUp? Wow, I… Continue reading
The great folks at ControlUp grant each #vExpert, #CTP, #MVP and #NutanixNTC a free annual NFR license for their home-lab. This post will describe the easy setup of ControlUp for The LAB. Michael White did a similar write-up, so please check that one out also to ensure you don’t miss… Continue reading
This post will describe 2 use cases where I used my PKI, as those were most important to me. All my other infrastructure will get the proper certificate (where needed), but I will not describe this (or if I run into some issues) Domain Controller Ok now I made my… Continue reading
This is taking a bit more time than anticipated, but rather spend the time now and learn along the way on some gotchas than doing it quick and dirty. If you’re interested in how to setup a lot of stuff automatically (which I recommend), please check out the blog of… Continue reading
Okay, I now deployed some basic infrastructure (Domain Controller, Firewall & Cloud Connect), I will focus now on creating my templates within Prism, so I can speed up deployment a bit. WARNING This post is quite basic and I found the actions very tedious, but nevertheless I found it necessary… Continue reading
Yesterday we had a “urgent” request to update all of the credentials on our Nutanix clusters. While my colleague worked on the clusters with VMware as a Hypervisor, I started with the cluster running AHV as a hypervisor. Although this is relatively small cluster (11 NX-3060 nodes), I loath to… Continue reading
Ok, so now the site-to-site VPN is in place, I can sync my local Active Directory (AD) lab.damen-online.nl with my Azure Active Directory (AAD). To do this I first need to register this domain within my Azure subscription (as this is registered with another domain). To do this I go… Continue reading
I’ve setup up the new LAB, but now I need to create an environment for my testing otherwise I could have saved me the money and spent it on a subscription for Netflix/Disney+/Apple+/Amazon Prime (pick your favourite). My environment will be using an on-prem Active Directory, consisting of Domain Controller… Continue reading