Our ESET Agent Upgrade Story
This is a sad story. We are not using any Directory Service such as Active Directory (I was fighting for active directory during past 4 years!) because of Gap of Knowledge in our department.
Davoud Teimouri - Virtualization and Data Center Blog
HashiCorp Products and Technologies
HashiCorp is one of leaders which providing automation tools for large-scale of cloud solutions. Let’s see which solutions provided by HashiCorp.
Ansible UI – Ansible Semaphore
Ansible is one of most popular IT automation systems but if you want to have User Interface for Ansible, you have few options. Red Hat offers Ansible Tower as an enterprise edition of Ansible which includes an UI. Ansible Tower (AWX Project) is available as community edition but some version may be released with minimum of tests. There is another Open-Source project that you can use it, Ansible Semaphore.
Group Policy Home
Group Policy is Windows administrators’ favorite management tools that provides centralized management and configuration of operating systems, applications, and users’ settings in an Active Directory environment.
CentOS Replacement Candidates
CentOS was most popular operating system for cloud but Red Hat acting same as COVID-19 and change the world forever. CentOS was a real Community Enterprise Operating System but till December 2020.
HBA Port and Linux: What’s The Best Solutions to Disable?
Sometimes you need to do troubleshooting about storage connectivity but you don’t have access to datacenter or SAN switches and you need to shutdown one of HBA ports to check server side problem. If the port was a network adapter port, disabling was to easy but what about HBA port on operating system?
How To Complete Alerts in Hitachi Storage Navigator (VSP G Series)
There was some uncompleted alerts that we did fix the issues on our storage system but alerts are still remains.
New HPE Customized ESXi Image Not Supported on ProLiant BL c-Class Servers
HPE has released the supported ESXi versions as customized images for ProLiant and other HPE server products. There is bad news about HPE ProLiant BL460c. Which Version Have Released? The below versions of HPE Custom Images for VMware Released in January 2021: VMware-ESXi-7.0.1-17325551-HPE-701.0.0.10.6.3.9-Jan2021.iso VMware-ESXi-6.7.0-17167734-HPE-Gen9plus-670.U3.10.6.3.8-Jan2021.iso VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-Update3-17097218-HPE-Gen9plus-650.U3.10.6.3.8-Dec2020.iso Which Hardware Products Not Supported? The mentioned images don’t support installing on the below server products: HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen10 Server Blade HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Server Blade HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen9 Server Blade Which Versions Are Supported on ProLiant BL c-Class Servers? The below versions must be used on ProLiant BL c-Class Servers: VMware-ESXi-7.0.1-16850804-HPE-701.0.0.10.6.0.40-Oct2020.iso VMware-ESXi-6.7.0-Update3-16713306-HPE-Gen9plus-670.U3.10.6.0.83-Oct2020.iso VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-Update3-16389870-HPE-Gen9plus-650.U3.10.6.0.86-Oct2020.iso What Should We Do For Future? Don’t worry, the next releases will be supported on ProLiant BL c-Class Servers. Wait for new releases of HPE Custom Images for VMware. See Also Network Connection Problem on HPE FlexFabric 650 (FLB/M) Adapter References Notice: HPE c-Class BladeSystem – The HPE Custom Images for VMware Released in January 2021 Are Not Supported on ProLiant BL c-Class Servers
Create Your Own Time Zone in Linux
I don’t know why do you need to create your own time zone in Linux? But I had to customized TZ file and create my own time zone because of what does our application needs? . First lets see that what is TZ and TZ Database. Time Zone Database (TZ Database) The Time Zone Database (often called tz or zoneinfo) contains code and data that represent the history of local time for many representative locations around the globe. It is updated periodically to reflect changes made by political bodies to time zone boundaries, UTC offsets, and daylight-saving rules. Its management procedure is documented in BCP 175: Procedures for Maintaining the Time Zone Database. https://www.iana.org/time-zones You can download the latest time zone database from this link: https://www.iana.org/time-zones Zone File, UTC Offset, Rule The files are text files and contains the below information about a time zone: Definition of a time zone Daylight saving time (DST) rules Names of time zones Example # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule US 1918 1919 – Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1918 1919 – Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule US 1942 only – Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War Rule...
Guest Operating System Upgrade or New Virtual Machine?
Virtual Machine needs guest operating system (OS) to operates same as physical machine. Operating system is a system software and has life cycle same as other software. But what should we do about updating and upgrading guest operating systems in virtual environments. Guest Operating System Life-Cycle Most implemented services don’t need to any new features on operating system, so we should choose guest operating system with long term support. Both Windows and Linux (Some distributions) offering different of channels. You can choose a path that more stable or choose a path for have new features. Update vs Upgrade When you need to newest technologies and features on the latest major version of operating system, you have to do Upgrade. But when you are applying regular patches on operation system, you are doing Update. Keep Update Guest Operating System Operating systems’ vendors releasing patches during operating system life-cycle. Apply patches (Security or others) to keep guest operating system secure and stable as well as your services and business. Even installing service packs or upgrading to a minor version of current guest operating system is an update process and there is no limitation to do it. When We Should Upgrade Guest Operating...
RVTools 4.0.4
RVTools is the best free tool which we are using it more than 10 years. RVTools 4.0.4 is released at May 1st.
vSphere 7 Upgrade Series – Part 2: Hardware Compatibility
This is second part of VMware vSphere 7 upgrade series which about hardware compatibility.
After the upgrade path is prepared and you are ready to pay for new hardware or upgrade current hardware, you have to choose compatible hardware, so you must know that why hardware compatibility is so important?
vSphere 7 Upgrade Series – Part 1: Define Upgrade Path
This post is first part of vSphere 7 Upgrade Series which about vSphere upgrade path to vSphere 7.
VMware vSphere 7: Which Features Are Removed?
VMware vSphere 7 introduces lot of new features but there are some features which removed or deprecated in VMware vSphere 7. Some of them were important features for us but VMware has defined some policies to achieved new and updated solutions in server/desktop/OS Level virtualization.
What’s New in Hardware Version 17?
Recently, vSphere 7 has been released by VMware at 2nd March 2020. The new version are includes massive improvements and features. Some of new features are related to virtual machine hardware. Usually, each major version of vSphere will introduced new hardware version and vSphere 7 has come with hardware version 17.
