In my homelab I am currently running HPE DL360 Gen8 servers fitted with Dell branded Broadcom BCM57402 10GbE network adaptors. As they are Dell badged, firmware updates are not supported via the iLO or Intelligent Provisioning interfaces available on the DL360s, so how do we go about updating the firmware on these cards?
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Deploying Ansible AWX (or any other app, probably!) on Kubernetes From Day 0
I’ve been looking recently at learning Ansible (bit late to the party I know!) after I attended a one day training course. During the course I learned about the core Ansible Engine and then spent some time on Ansible Tower. Ansible AWX is the upstream open source project of RedHat’s Tower, so I figured I’d start out with deploying an instance of AWX in my lab.
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This evening I thought I’d update my homelab to the latest vSphere 7.0u1d. I had some issues with updating my VCSA via the VAMI. Ultimately that was all resolved by performing the update using the cli without issue. However when I came to update my hosts, two of them seemingly updated fine but the third one got stuck.
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Homelab Journey – Part 1: The First Lab
So, as promised, here is part one of my homelab journey! In this series of posts I don’t expect to be detailing technical configs and step by step guides on how my homelab got to where it is today, but rather I plan to just share my journey in the hope that it’s vaguely interesting and/or useful!
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After getting Active Directory LetsEncrypt SSL Certs working in my homelab the other week, I wanted to configure NPS as a RADIUS server for my MikroTik CAPsMAN WiFi APs.
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In large organisations with tens of thousands of domain joined assets, it’s perhaps not all that surprising that Active Directory Functional Levels (ADFL) and Domain Controller OS versions can lag some way behind the versions of the organisation’s newest clients. Legacy applications, technical debt, fear – what ever the reason for DCs and ADFL staying at particular versions, we still need to be able to manage the latest OS versions.
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Well, I’ve done it. After umming and ahing for the last few months about it, I’ve decided to have a go at this whole blogging thing!
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