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Reset lost password vCenter Appliance 5.5
Hmm, not sure wtf happened but logging into my test environment VMWare vSphere vCenter Appliance 5.5 was suddenly a no-go. And unlucky me is also about 3000 miles away from the cluster š Technically I can still manage the three-node-cluster … Continue reading
You can’t always get what you want .. or can you?!
disclaimer: this is a (technical) article to show how to get AppleTV access to the much better stocked US iTunes from anywhere outside of the US. The main purpose of this post to satisfy my curiosity on how stuff works … Continue reading
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Tagged AppleTV, IP blocking, VPN, VPN tunnels, ESPN, Routerboard, Mikrotik, Netflix
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Subtitles with Subliminal for Sickbeard on QNAP
* UPDATED to subliminal 0.8.0-dev (22-06-2014) * * UPDATED to subliminal 2.0.5 (28-09-2018) * A short write-up on how to automate the download of subtitles for every new episode that Sickbeard is queueing with SABNZBD. First of all, for this … Continue reading
It’s the egg…
There has been a new development in Microsoft’s failover clustering technology so a short response to my earlier postĀ the chicken or the egg of Microsoft clusteringĀ … well, it turns out to be the egg š The Egg of Columbus The … Continue reading
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Storage design
The storage design is in essence similar to the original clusterbuild however there are some slight changes. Ā Iām using a QNAP TS-659 Pro+ (12Tb raw storage) to be the iSCSI target and provide the mapped LUNās. The QNAP is configured … Continue reading
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Evaluate the original goals and design principles
The original goals and design principles as outlined here are still valid for the new build, a summary: Low power consumption (equal or less than my current single host) Be as small as possible Silent running Enable high availability for … Continue reading
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Binsfeldius Cluster, Live Migration & VLAN tag pitfalls
As I only have three physical NIC’s in each node, which are all spoken for (see network design), I’m using a VLAN on the existing TTG DMZ network for the internal TTG LAN where my VM’s reside. You can set … Continue reading
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Tagged Binsfeldius Cluster (Original), Clustering, Failover Cluster Manager, Hyper-V, Microsoft, VLAN
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