Hi readers, Today marks the end of an experience for me. Sadly, I’ve decided to cancel the rack I was renting in the datacenter. This means my lab will be no more. I will not be renewing for the VMware vExpert program. The lab is getting too costly and with lack of job security at the end of the year, I cannot afford …

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Content Warning: This blog post involves mentions of self-harm and suicidal thoughts. Spoken version: (coming soon…) Text version: Hi readers, It’s another more real life focused blog post. This time it will be about my personal story with the healthcare system, specifically for mental health, in The Netherlands. Back …

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This post serves as a current update on what’s running in my lab, with pictures. Let’s do the front: We see 9 servers. They are all HP ProLiant servers. From top to bottom: DL360p G8, DL380 G7, DL380p G8, DL360p G8, DL380p G8, DL360p G8, DL360p G8, DL380p G8, DL360 G6. Here’s a table, in order from top to bottom. The …

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Hi readers, Some of you have been messaging me where I have been. Well, life’s been an adventure. The next post will be a technical one, however this post will be limited to real life shenanigans. Back in April while I was on a trip to Berlin, I had a good friend reach out to me and asked if I wanted to come over. Now …

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With power pricing getting severely out of hand (well, it has been for months now), I figured I should do my part. Currently, my lab consists of four ESXi servers, two storage servers, one backup server and one personal tinkering server. My ESXi cluster has always ran on about 1.5 hosts worth of redundancy. In order to …

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On March 29th I turned 21 years old.. It seems like that lots of things have changed, but not the things I was hoping for. I have a fixed-term position now somewhere as a job, which is useful, though also annoying as it’s a fixed-term position after all. But to be realistic, it’s a good start considering where I’m at. …

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While everyone is going to make their “new year’s resolutions” I had been thinking of.. What would I like to do in 2023, in an ideal world? (where money isn’t an issue, that is). In terms of professional development there are a couple of trainings and certifications I would like to go for. Not only to brush up on some …

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Today while I installed two new servers in the rack, I had to mount some iSCSI datastores to these servers as I also have them mounted on other servers. I wrote a quick script to do this because I am lazy, and decided to share it here in case it may be useful: 1#!/bin/bash 2 3esxcfg-volume -l > /tmp/dump.log 4cat …

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What is the vExpert program and most importantly, what has it done for me? That’s what this blog post is about. The video can be found here. Here is the explanation of the vExpert program carefully quoted from their site: “The VMware vExpert program is VMware’s global evangelism and advocacy program. The program is …

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VMware has launched a new certification. The VMware Cloud Professional – VMware Cloud 2022 certification (yes, that is a mouthful to say over Zoom). In short, let’s call it VCP-VMC 2022 for now. It was first introduced in this post from VMware. This certificate aims to prove that the holder has sufficient knowledge of …

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