Dell Unity VSA is a virutal appliance which runs on VMware ESXi environement. This VSA will be used for automation testing and as a Storage (iscsi) for my Netsted ESXi deployments System Requirements: vCenter ESXi host 12GB RAM 2vCPU Disk space as required Installation: Download the VSA appliance from Dell Downloads …
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MicroCloud In my previsous post, we have deployed the Microcloud using manual setup. This post shows how to setup the Microcloud using OpenTofu/Terraform. Github Repo for the Code: https://github.com/kkramineni/microcloud Requirements: My OpenTofu Code creates the following Hostname IP Address Specifications micro-01 …
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Harvester Harvester is a modern Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution built for bare metal servers using enterprise-grade open source technologies including Kubernetes, KubeVirt and Longhorn. This allows you to run both containers and VMs in your cluster. This will reduce operation overhead and provide …
Read MoreMicroCloud MicroCloud allows you to deploy your own fully functional cloud in minutes. It’s a snap package that can automatically configure LXD, Ceph, and OVN across a set of servers. It relies on mDNS to automatically detect other servers on the network, making it possible to set up a complete cluster by running a …
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Overview Packer uses the HashiCorp Configuration Language - HCL - designed to allow concise descriptions of the required steps to get to a build file. This page describes the features of HCL2 exhaustively HCL Templates reference File structure i have used: Below two files are commonly used by all the templates. which …
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Hardware Requirements: The minimum hardware requirements for pfSense® software on hardware are: 64-bit amd64 (x86-64) compatible CPU 1GB or more RAM - I've configured 512MB in Lab, which is enough for non network relted use cases 8 GB or larger disk drive (SSD, HDD, etc) 2 network interface cards Bootable USB drive or …
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Rocky Linux Server Template creation for Home Lab Step1: Create VM In VMware workstation, Go to File -> Select New Virtual Mahine to create a VM Select the custom(Advanced) anc click next. Leave the Typical (recommended) configuration option, if you choose not to play around. Choose I will install operating system …
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Windows Server Template creation for Home Lab To create a template, first we need to provision the virtual machine on which we will install Windows Server 2022. Here are a few things to consider when doing so: Config parameters 1. Disk type 1Thin Disk ( this is the default) Since this is for Home Lab, we have chosen …
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