With CentOS 7 reaching its end-of-life on June 30th of this year, it would be a good idea to identify any VMs with that particular OS. Doing so manually could prove tedious. Personally, I subscribe to the philosophy shared in Google’s SRE manual, and seek to eliminate such toilsome tasks. And PowerShell is a great…
Category: Virtualization
Posts pertaining to virtualization, hypervisor use, or virtual machine configuration
Build Your Own “Lab Hydration Kit”
When performing iterative development or testing work, it is critical to be able to quickly stand up a “clean slate” environment. The concept behind the hydration kit is to be able to rapidly “hydrate” a small Windows Domain to simulate a small enterprise environment, “Just add water!” When I am configuring an enterprise lab environment,…
Homelab – SSD Types and VM Performance
The idea that Solid-State Drives (SSDs) have superior performance when compared to the Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) of yesteryear has become common amongst administrators. And, for many applications, SSDs have now proven themselves. Many administrators have not indulged beyond this concept. However, if you are building a machine with performance in mind, you might take…
Homelab – Virtual Network Configuration
In my home lab environment, I find it convenient (most of the time) for my devices to be able to communicate with one another unimpeded. Doing so allows for simple file transfer, to use RDP, or to ping virtual devices. Often these capabilities are not a necessity, but they do make things convenient. And, in…