This guide walks through the complete deployment of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 using the consolidated architecture in full HA mode. The goal is to build a lab or test environment that emulates as many production features and capabilities as possible while strictly following production-grade rules.
In today’s always-connected world, your DNS resolver is one of the most critical services in your home lab or network. If your AdGuard Home instance goes down — whether due to a hardware failure, software crash, or maintenance — everything…
This post will describe staging updates or Images into vRealize LifeCycle Manager. In some cases vRSLCM cannot connect to internet directly and therefore updates have to be manually staged
Home Assistant is free and open-source software for home automation designed to be a central control system for smart home devices with a focus on local control and privacy. It can be accessed through a web-based user interface by using companion apps for Android and iOS, or by voice commands . Rhasspy is…
Netherlands supports various “smart” gateways which support a P1 port for actual data discovery of electricity and gas consumption. This post will post actual references and details to configure this in Telegraf/InfluxDB for use in Grafana.
Prometheus is a free software application used for event monitoring and alerting. It records real-time metrics in a time series database (allowing for high dimensionality) built using a HTTP pull model, with flexible queries and real-time alerting. Prometheus also has…
Telegraf is a server-based agent for collecting all kinds of metrics for further processing. It’s a piece of software that you can install anywhere in your infrastructure and it will read metrics from specified sources – typically application logs, events, or…
InfluxDB is an open-source time series database developed by the company InfluxData. It is written in the Go programming language for storage and retrieval of time series data in fields such as operations monitoring, application metrics, Internet of Things sensor…
Grafana is a multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualization web application. It provides charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources.
Prometheus is a free software application used for event monitoring and alerting. It records real-time metrics in a time series database (allowing for high dimensionality) built using a HTTP pull model, with flexible queries and real-time alerting.
GitLab is a DevOps software package that combines the ability to develop, secure, and operate software in a single application. Git is a version control system used to track changes in computer files. Git’s primary purpose is to manage any changes…
Bad RAM is one of the most frustrating computer problems to have as symptoms are often random and hard to pin down. MemTest86 can help diagnose faulty RAM (or rule it out as a cause of system instability). As such…