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Sandisk USB 3.1 PenDrive and Raspberry Pi (4b) based Wireless NAS for the Macbook (MacOS Ventura)

My weekend task this week was simple! A Sandisk and Raspberry Pi based NFS/NAS wireless mount for my MacBook :-) Hardware used: 3 nos Raspberry Pi 4b (wireless) Sandisk USB…

Ayan Kumar Nath September 8, 2023

AWS Clouds, Infra and Observations Opensource

How to build a self-hosted VPN server on AWS

A VPN server allows you to connect using a secure tunnel.This has a couple of benefits. First, you sort of have control over your data. And it also allows you…

Ayan Kumar Nath February 17, 2023

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Raspberry Pi K8s/K3s/Kubernetes Cluster from scratch – the easy way!

The Raspberry Pi has always been a capable little computer, and with the Raspberry Pi 4 series, we now have Wifi, Bluetooth etc along with 8 Gb RAM - a…

Ayan Kumar Nath May 22, 2022

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esxtop annoyances – MAC

esxtop does not like to work on the Mac out of the box. And this has nothing to do with the OS itself! Read on to find out what exactly…

Ayan Kumar Nath February 4, 2021

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The Facebook Conundrum

This is a non technical blog. Well, "technical", if you are into systems and processes though. The whole Facebook WhatsApp Instagram Signal Telegram conversation and mess essentially ended up in…

Ayan Kumar Nath February 3, 2021

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OK, so people are reaching out for resetting ESXi password as the old blog of mine isn't there anymore http://www.vdsyn.com/resetting-the-root-password-for-esxi-5-x/ Ok this was on ESXi 6.5 - need to test…

Ayan Kumar Nath February 2, 2021

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Facebook and Privacy

Let's face it (see what I did there?) a lot of people are actually leaving Facebook. I know I have, and it hasn't been as easy. It has been hard.…

Ayan Kumar Nath February 2, 2021

Nutanix Publish VMware

Can ESXi hosts upgrade via Commandline on Nutanix?

Well, this is thoroughly a fun pet experiment - just to tinker around and see what breaks :-) Should you be trying this on a prod cluster? Holy !@#$ no!…

Ayan Kumar Nath January 31, 2021

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Upgrading ESXi 7.0.x from the command line

So, you are done with https://www.thevfanatic.com/understanding-esxi-7-0-1-upgrades-command-line/ and are now aching to see what a successful upgrade looks like? Fear not! We have a successful upgrade to feast our eyes on!…

Ayan Kumar Nath January 31, 2021

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Understanding ESXi 7.0.1 upgrades – command line

So ESXi upgrades can be done in a variety of ways. You could use the Update manager, use the ISO in IPMI - but then the most fun way (for…

Ayan Kumar Nath January 31, 2021

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Those Pesky ESXi 7.0.x log files :-)

Well, ESXi 7.0 is upon us, and so are new Logs :-) If you have been poking around the ESXi's guts and can't comprehend what those shiny new logs are,…

Ayan Kumar Nath January 31, 2021

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Chrome – NET::ERR_CERT_INVALID

Ever tried setting up a Nutanix or VMware lab and Chrome just cr*ps out on you? With nonsense like "Your connection is not private" NET::ERR_CERT_INVALID - whatever in God's name…

Ayan Kumar Nath January 30, 2021

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IPMI time zone using ipmitool

Using ipmitool to find BMC/IPMI timezone that is set

Ayan Kumar Nath January 24, 2021

Hyper-V Publish

Enabling the Hyper V role in Windows 10

If you are looking for a free desktop virtualization solution and you are running Windows 10, well, in a pinch, you can actually create and run a fully functional Hyper…

Ayan Kumar Nath March 25, 2020

Nutanix Opensource Publish

Creating Multiple VMs using Terraform – Nutanix Provider

Building on the previous example, let's use Terraform to create multiple VM's using just one Terraform file/configuration. Let's take the previous example's tf file and check the options available $…

Ayan Kumar Nath January 16, 2019

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Terraform using Nutanix Provider and V3 APIs

Below is an example of creating a basic VM (CentOS) on a Nutanix cluster using Terraform Points to note: Cluster is already UP and running AHVCentOS image is already present…

Ayan Kumar Nath January 16, 2019

Opensource Publish Vagrant

Vagrant File Example | Virtualbox

So here's an example Vagrant YAML file that does the following: Spins a CentOS 7 VMGives it a Static IPInstalls on VirtualBox on the local machineSets the vCPU and MemoryCreates…

Ayan Kumar Nath January 14, 2019

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Using Vagrant to install an EC2 instance

Let's test Vagrant to deploy an EC2 instance to AWS. For this, the first thing we need is to install the aws plugin for Vagrant. My Vagrant instance currently just…

Ayan Kumar Nath January 7, 2019

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Getting Started with Terraform

Now that we have Terraform installed, let us see what it is actually capable of. Terraform is an Infrastructure automation tool and works with AWS, GCP (Google Cloud), Azure, Alibaba…

Ayan Kumar Nath January 4, 2019