Author Archives: Chris

Fedora 25 to 26 Upgrade and VMware Workstation Pro

Posted on 26 August 2017 by Chris

Today I upgraded my home office PC from Fedora 25 to Fedora 26. The upgrade went smooth with the exception of the proprietary NVidia drivers for my GTX 1060 not working at 1st boot. A quick run of `akmods –force` … Continue reading →

Posted in Fedora, Linux, VMware | 1 Comment

Building ccminer-cryptonight for Monero mining with NVidia GPU’s on Fedora 25

Posted on 3 January 2017 by Chris

I was playing around with Monero crypto-currency mining this weekend and was able to easily get the CPU miner working on my Fedora 25 workstation. I wanted to use my GPU as well since I recently upgraded to an NVidia … Continue reading →

Posted in Cryptocurrency, Fedora, Linux, Monero | 1 Comment

Using Ruby to Call vRO Workflows via the REST API

Posted on 15 May 2016 by Chris

There are a bunch of posts out there showing how to connect to the REST API but I found there were very few that actually showed something interesting happening. So, I figured I’d throw together an quick ruby script showing … Continue reading →

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Adding an isolated network to my home lab

Posted on 22 March 2016 by Chris

Last week I set up a Satellite server in my home lab so I could test out deploying systems via kickstart. I wanted to kickstart the VM’s using DCHP and PXE but I didnt want the DHCP server running on … Continue reading →

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Packstack install fails with Mongo Connection Error

Posted on 8 January 2016 by Chris

Last night I was installing OpenStack Kilo using packstack via the instructions for CentOS 7 on RDO. I tried installing the stack using the following command, which should have resulted in a full OpenStack install on a single VM with … Continue reading →

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Configuring Infoblox in the home lab for vRO

Posted on 7 December 2015 by Chris

Infoblox’s IPAM is an awesome product for IP address management, DHCP, DNS, etc. It is used by lots of companies and is often integrated with vRA/vRO. Because of this, I have a local install of the IPAM in my home … Continue reading →

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vRO Workflow to Get a DV Portgroup By Name

Posted on 9 November 2015 by Chris

I recently needed a vRO workflow to get a distributed port group object to perform some work on. I had access to the name of the port group but I couldn’t find a workflow that would allow me to get … Continue reading →

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Building NVidia Driver 340.76 with Linux 4.0.4 on Fedora 21

Posted on 15 June 2015 by Chris

This evening I updated Fedora 21 on my Thinkpad W510 laptop and the kernel upgrade brought the laptop to version 4.0.4. The previous 3.x kernel worked perfectly with my Nvidia drivers but installing the Nvidia drivers in the 4.0.4 kernel … Continue reading →

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Installing Fedora 21 and ESXi 5.5 on my new Shuttle DS81

Posted on 7 March 2015 by Chris

As I previously wrote, I recently assembled a new workstation for the home lab that I will be using as both a Linux and ESXi host. I’ll be using it as an admin workstation while not traveling (Linux) and then … Continue reading →

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New Fedora 21 and ESXi Host in the homelab

Posted on 7 March 2015 by Chris

A while back I wrote about setting up an old Toshiba laptop we had laying around as a workstation to manage my VMware environment including vCO (now named vRO). That laptop has been working well but I wanted something a … Continue reading →

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