IT Infrastructure Architect

Here is a technique to permanently enable SSH access on ESXi hosts. VMWare warns against leaving SSH access enabled on production servers due to security concerns. However, in my homelab this is an acceptable risk. Using the VMWare Web Interface, do Host > Services >…

Connections to cloud-hosted servers are typically secured using an RSA Private Key rather than password. If you have the key saved to a file on a local machine, here is how to use it with SSH, Scp, Rsync and Ansible To use SSH to perform…

The free license option for VMWare ESXi lacks the backup APIs enabled by a vSphere license. Here is a simple script that I use instead to backup my guest VMs on my VMWare ESXi running on a Raspberry Pi 4. The script assumes: Use SSH,…

Oracle Could Infrastructure generously provide completely free compute instances to all users. However, Oracle reserve the right to reclaim idle instances. This article describes how to generate a load capable of satisfying Oracle's definition of activity to prevent reclamation. Oracle define idle compute instances as…

The low-power Raspberry Pi is an excellent platform for the modest compute requirements of an always-on Active Directory (AD) Domain Controller (DC). However, building a DC from scratch on a Raspberry Pi can be complex, and few options exist for running AD in a container…