Author Archives: brian.wuchner

My completed (for now) Home Office improvements

Posted on January 19, 2021 by brian.wuchner

I’ve recently made several improvements to my home office / desk setup. Several people have asked for details on the parts/pieces I used to complete this, so I wanted to take a moment and document them here. I started with … Continue reading →

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Clone Template to new vCenter

Posted on January 18, 2021 by brian.wuchner

On a recent TAM Lab session (TAM Lab 082) I covered several methods for managing vSphere templates. At the end of the presentation we had a brief bonus method that showed using PowerCLI to clone a template to a different … Continue reading →

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Skyline Health Diagnostics custom SSL certificates

Posted on October 17, 2020 by brian.wuchner

I recently read about the new Skyline Health Diagnostics tool. Here is a short quote that captures what this tool is all about. VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics for vSphere is a self-service tool to detect issues using log bundles and … Continue reading →

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Photon OS 3.0 Grow Filesystem

Posted on October 13, 2020 by brian.wuchner

I recently had a need to grow the root filesystem on a Photon OS 3.0 virtual machine. This is something I’ve done before with Ubuntu Linux (blog post here), but Photon OS does not include the growpart command out of … Continue reading →

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Setting up Pi-hole DNS

Posted on July 5, 2020 by brian.wuchner

At home I attempt to maintain two networks — a reliable home network with WiFi and internet access and a separate home lab where services may not be as reliable. These networks overlap at times (for example, the home lab … Continue reading →

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