Replacing the stock fans on UniFi Dream Machine and 24 Port Switch

A walkthrough on replacing the loud stock fans in UniFi Dream Machine and 24 Port PoE Switch with quiet Noctua fans

March 27, 2024 · 3 min · Jim Angel

VMware homelab [Part 3]: How to configure vSphere networking and storage

The third post of a VMware homelab series covering the configuration for networking and storage in a vSphere 7 cluster

February 6, 2023 · 13 min · Jim Angel

VMware homelab [Part 2]: How to install a vSphere cluster at home

The second post of a VMware homelab series covering the installation of vSphere 8

February 4, 2023 · 6 min · Jim Angel

VMware homelab [Part 1]: Introduction & Considerations

What to consider when building a VMware homelab like how many hosts, networking, storage, and more! This is the first post of a series that follows the complete process when building a multi-host VMware cluster at home

February 1, 2023 · 15 min · Jim Angel

How to install and use VMware's PowerCLI on a M1 Mac

VMware’s PowerCLI tool now supports mac and Linux in version 13. I’ll walk through how to configure and use PowerCLI on a MacBook Pro

January 25, 2023 · 6 min · Jim Angel

How to automate a bare metal Ubuntu 22.04 LTS installation

Automate the complete installation of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on physical servers using cloud-init and USBs

September 19, 2022 · 19 min · Jim Angel

How to automate Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on a Raspberry Pi 4

Automate the complete install of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on a Raspberry Pi 4 using cloud-init

September 19, 2022 · 4 min · Jim Angel

Auto-updating and self-healing GitOps Kubernetes monster

Self-hosted, Self-healing, Self-updating, Self-patching Kubernetes madness

June 20, 2021 · 10 min · Jim Angel

Automated VCSA 6.7 Install using CLI

Quickly deploy vCenter to an ESXi host

June 26, 2019 · 2 min · Jim Angel

Automated ESXi 6.7 U2 Zero Touch Install via USB

How to deploy a self-provisioning ESXi thumb drive

June 10, 2018 · 5 min · Jim Angel