My lab environment sits within a closet in my home office. It is not a particularly large closet, but it has been decked out with its own air conditioning, extra insulation in all the walls, and a double-pane insulated external door. The goal? To keep the rack cool, of course, but also to prevent noise …
Edward L. Haletky, aka Texiwill, is an author, analyst, developer, technologist, and business owner. Edward owns AstroArch Consulting, Inc., providing virtualization, security, network consulting and development and TVP Strategy where he is also an Analyst. Edward is the Moderator and Host of the Virtualization Security Podcast as well as a guru and moderator for the VMware Communities Forums, providing answers to security and configuration questions. Edward is working on new books on Virtualization.
WordPress Hacked: Security Steps and Cleanup Take III
In WordPress Hacked: Security Steps Take II, I wrote about the tools and steps to take to secure your WordPress installation. The current steps to take are the same. The tools, however, have changed significantly. Even as the steps changed from WordPress Hacked: Security Steps, now we look at the tools once more. I will …
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vSphere Upgrade Saga: Exchanging HP BL460c G6 with BL460c G8
I recently received a pair of Gen8 blades for my enclosure, and it is time to change out my Gen6 and 7 blades for Gen8. Now, as with every upgrade, a fair amount of planning must occur in order to start this upgrade. I consider it a hardware upgrade, and while it should be straightforward, …
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vSphere Upgrade Saga: Planning for vSphere 6.0
There are many features in vSphere 6.0, such as multi-vCPU Fault Tolerance, that I wish to use for my VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA), as it is the single point of failure. Backups have been made, but they will take quite a while to restore. With the new Fault Tolerance, there is a chance that …
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Mac OS Upgrade Saga: Moving to Yosemite
I recently upgraded my Retina MacBook Pro to Mac OS X Yosemite and had several issues with the upgrade. The OS upgraded fine; the applications I normally use, however, had some issues. Not many, to be sure, but the ones I did have were very interesting in that they dealt entirely with communication. They also …
vSphere Upgrade Saga: Log Insight Content Pak
I have written about upgrading VMware vCenter Log Insight (vLI) in the past, but I have not discussed my first content pak for Log Insight. You can find my discussion on how to set up this content pak below. This was recorded at VMworld 2014 by the vBrownBag folks. I would like to thank them …
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