vCenter, ESXi & Centralized Licensing with VCF Operations Over the past months, I’ve been running a simple but fully functional homelab on vSphere 8, consisting of a single vCenter Server App
High-Availability DNS Using Technitium + Keepalived (VRRP)
Running internal services on *.mydomain.com requires DNS that your LAN devices actually use. Most home networks still rely on router-provided DNS or upstream resolvers, which cannot serve internal
Running VMware ESXi Nested Inside Proxmox on a Cheap Hetzner Dedicated Server
Running VMware ESXi inside Proxmox on a Hetzner dedicated server is an efficient way to build a full vSphere lab without the hardware cost normally associated with enterprise virtualization. This s
Automating Certificate Rotation on VMware NSX ALB (Avi) Using ACME DNS Challenges with Cloudflare
By default, VMware NSX ALB (Avi) uses HTTP-01 validation for Let’s Encrypt certificate issuance. This requires exposing an HTTP endpoint and configuring Virtual Services or routing rules just
Horizon 7 > 8 Upgrade – Linked clones to full clones
As the sun sets on Horizon 7, it’s time to embrace the future with Horizon 8. However, this upgrade comes with a significant change – Horizon 8 no longer supports linked clones. Instead
Manage Certificates in VMware Horizon 8 2212 with Certificate Management
VMware has provided us with a new and efficient way to import certificates into Horizon. Let’s put it to the test! I have a new and sleek single connection server. Let’s see what option
Appvolumes “on demand” – Certificate Issue
So, I was playing around a bit with App Volumes 2212 to test Appvolumes on demand and trying to add it to Horizon (check out Age’s blog howto). And was confronted with the following error: Invali
Using Ansible to call VMware Rest API’s
I’ve been busy for a while calling REST API’s to diffrent VMware products to be more flexible and don’t depend on any solution like PowerCLI. While not everything is possible yet
Homelab and Home network upgrading to OPNsense
My homelab and home network consisted of roughly the following components: 3x Intel NUC installed with VMware ESXi with 1 Intel Nuc running 24/7, the “24/7” Nuc has one physical NIC on
The curious case of Subject Alternative Name and Firefox
Last week I was busy with an access connector migration from 19.x to 22.x I ran into a weird certificate error. This issue has nothing to do with the access connector migration but it is still wort