VMware

VCF, backup configuration

Backup implementation for VMware component is fairly easy. Just the requirements is to configure SFTP server in proper way and make it network available to the VMware components. SDDC Manager and NSX Manager backup In VCF Operations it is possible to configure backup for SDDC Manager and NSX Manager. Go …

VMware

VCF Automation, fresh environment configuration with identity providers and access control.

Introduction Login Login as user admin to the Organization name: system or if selected manual: Check the connections (in Administration section), where you should see connection to the vCenter and NSX-t manager as those are provided automatically via VCF Operations: the same for VCF Instances: Also check your networking: Identity …

VMware

VCF SoS

SoS (Supportability and Serviceability) command can be used for troubleshooting purpose to generate VCF (per component) log bundle, massively enable/disable ssh service on ESXi, vCenter, password and certificates expiry status, verify cluster health and many other. while troubleshooting, the following commands can be helpful:

Linux

Nginx configuration for joplin note taking app

Introduction Joplin may not be the most perfect note-taking application, but it is open-source, well-known, has a long release history, works on multiple operating systems, and supports plugins. It’s not perfect, but it’s good enough and highly usable. In case of this type of application, it is important to have …

Linux

podcast

All podcast applications I have tested were quite OK(ish) – but I have always struggled with organizing podcasts, creating playlists, etc. It has always been challenging. Therefore, for me, it is more convenient to download podcasts as MP3s and manage them myself (in VLC, for example). There are many ways to do that, but my favorite …

Linux

jellyfin configuration in lxc container

Jellyfin is extremely useful software providing home streaming system. I am using it since a while for streaming my old ripped DVD, which I love to watch again and again. Jellyfin is opensource, cross platform as a server and as a client, including client for android and iOS. It is …

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Linux administration, few interesting tips

Change user id (uid) and group id (gid) for specific user

Linux

Various helpful Linux commands for file manipulations

Change file name for all files that contains “[any text]” substring to the same name without that.

Free(BSD)

Linux text manipulation

This article will grow over time Definition Command 1 Remove all comments including empty line (comments with ; and # like in samba.conf) egrep -v ‘^[[:space:]]*$|^ *#|^ *;’ /etc/samba/smb.conf 2 Find all file with some extension and remove it one by one; works for gnu xargs; 0 argument to properly …

Free(BSD)

yt-dlp – download your data from youtube

Hi, this short article only to mention that there is a wonderful application that exists for a years for the purpose to download YOUR or maybe some other movies from youtube. I don’t want to go in to legal aspect too much, what can be downloaded from youtube, what not …