This post will serve as the 10,000 ft overview of my environment and what it all consists of. I plan to follow up this post with a series of smaller posts breaking down my Home Lab into the following sections: (as I update these blog posts, links will appear and become active) Home Lab Servers…
So I have had this post sitting in the “Draft” stage for years now. Probably 3 or 4. I thought I was going to tackle this and set something definitively out there for some people to follow. And today I will finally do just that. Here are the suggested WordPress file permissions for Windows: RUN…
This past week, I had a failed port one one of my C2100’s. The specific part was a Intel PRO/1000 VT Quad Port Gigabit PCI-E Ethernet Network Adapter (HM9JY). Now just one single port failed and I was using all 4 ports for iSCSI from my FreeNAS C2100 to my esxi cluster. Luckily I have…
vCheck is a PowerShell HTML framework script that started with one guy, but is now a community driven and from what I have seen, it’s pretty neat. vCheck can be configured to just run once, or as a scheduled task on a Windows box. It also offers the option of sending the report via email.…
Powershell & PowerCLI Prep #Set Execution Policy Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned #Ignore SSL Certificates warnings Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore -WarningAction SilentlyContinue #Connecting to server & save creds: Connect-VIServer vCenter.DOMAIN.com -User DOMAIN\Administrator -Password -SaveCredentials #Location to open up PowerCLI normally: . “C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\Scripts\Initialize-PowerCLIEnvironment.ps1” CMDLET function Load-PowerCLI { Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue Add-PSSnapin VMware.VumAutomation -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue Add-PSSnapin VMware.DeployAutomation…
You can now use Powershell with Linux Operating Systems! See instructions below on how to set up your Linux distro with Powershell Source CentOS / RHEL Install wget (if not already installed): sudo yum install wget -y Download PS to the temp folder: wget -i /tmp/ https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v6.0.0-alpha.9/powershell-6.0.0_alpha.9-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm Install PS: sudo yum install powershell-6.0.0_alpha.9-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm -y Ubuntu…
This post does basically the same thing that I have already covered in my “WordPress on IIS 8.5 (Windows 2012 R2)” post, but it is a script that does literally everything for you. You will just need to add in a few of your own settings into the script, run it, and you will have a…
The Manual Installation and Configuration of WordPress and all accompanying components on Windows Server 2012 R2 WordPress “Requirements” PHP 5.6 or greater MySQL 5.5 or greater The mod_rewrite Apache module – You can find the requirements more depth directly from the WordpPress page: WordPress Requirements We are going to use: WordPress Version 4.3.1 PHP 5.4 MySQL…
Set a Static IP on your ESXi Host V5.5 Assigning a static IP to your ESXi host is extremely easy to do, and is highly recommended as you will always want your host to have the same IP. Notes: If your network is set up without DHCP, then you will have to do this from…
The Installation and Basic Configuration of VMware ESXi 5.5.0 on Dell C2100 FS12-TY Server Specs: Dell PowerEdge C2100 FS12-TY 2 x 2.13GHz Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5506 6 x 4GB RAM – Total 24GB’s of RAM RAID Controller – SAS 6iR 4 x 250GB WD RE 4 HDD’s I have already set up my RAID Array as…