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Installing VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.x on a USB Stick
I’m planning to get my own virtual server platform installed at home for testing purposes. The easy way would be to just run the free VMware Player on the laptop but I want to play with the free VMware...
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Building My Own VMware vSphere Hypervisor Host
As I wrote in my previous post, I’m building my own VMware vSphere Hypervisor (a.k.a. ESXi) host. Today I was able to get the first Debian server running on it! Let me go through the platform install...
View ArticleInstalling VMware Tools on Debian Linux
Apparently there is no official deb installer available for installing VMware Tools on Debian Linux. Instead you need to install it manually. Here is a brief memo of actions required on Debian 6.x and...
View ArticleSetting Up a Syslog Server
In the field of networking it is very useful to have a centralized location for your logs as the system itself (the network) is distributed. Syslog is the usual method of collecting the logs. There are...
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SoftEther VPN with a VPN Address Pool
For replacing a physical remote access VPN implementation with a VPN server in a virtual machine, one of the options is SoftEther. There is a lot of documentation in the site but somehow I felt the...
View ArticleInstalling AWS CLI on Cygwin
To get AWS CLI working in Cygwin: Install “python2-pip” with the Cygwin installer (and accept whatever dependencies it brings) Run “pip2 install awscli“ See what you have: “aws --version“, and continue...
View ArticleTLS Certificates in Debian and Apache
Adding TLS configurations in Apache: cat > /etc/ssl/private/myserver.key chmod 0640 /etc/ssl/private/myserver.key chgrp ssl-cert /etc/ssl/private/myserver.key cat > /etc/ssl/certs/myserver.crt cd...
View ArticleNetBox Install on Debian 9
When installing NetBox on Debian 9 and Apache, the instructions in http://netbox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ are fine, just some small additional operations are needed. The libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3...
View ArticleGet Linux Distribution Name and Version with Python
Since Debian 10 Buster there is no minor version number in lsb_release output or /etc/os-release anymore. Bug has been filed, but apparently there is no will to get the full version number back. The...
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