IT Consultant | Veeam Certified Engineer | Veeam Legend | VMware Certified Professional | VMware vExpert with 25 years of experience in system and network administration writing about backup, virtualisation, VMware, Veeam, and whatever else catches my eye. This blog has a mirror on Medium.
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OMG. The problem I am currently working at a customer’s site, and they have a Network Access Control system that requires authentication to connect to their wired network. I received a user account in their AD with an initial, simple password, and access to a VDI client. After connecting to the wired network I used the initial password to authenticate to the network and then to the VDI client. From within the VDI client I changed the password to a secret one. ...
Funny. The problem I installed in my lab a Rocky Linux (to use the Veeam PowerShell module against a VSA, but that’s not important) and I chose the minimal install. The Guest OS interaction test failed complaining about a missing tar. The solution It’s simple: install tar ;-) dnf install tar
It’s mandatory… The need As I wrote last February in my blog post vCenter VCSA 9 installation, in order to have a fully licensed VMware 9 Home Lab (as a vExpert and VCF certified I have the licenses to do so) VCF Operations is needed, because licensing is no longer manageable from vCenter. So I made my wallet bleed and bought a new host (Minisforum MS-A2, I’ll write about this later) with 96 GB RAM. I re-installed vCenter 9 and went with many worries into the VCF Operations installation. Long story short: it’s not a 3-click-and-go process, but I got through it fine on the first attempt. ...
Why Why not? 😃 Initially. But later I’ve found it being very easy to use Claude for developing apps on my Arduino Uno Q. The installation Short story short: follow the instructions for installing Claude Code as if you were using a normal Ubuntu machine. The Arduino board must have an internet connection, of course. Usage Claude Code Yeah, it starts and it’s pretty fast — not different from a normal PC. ...
Why A friend of mine suggested me to try installing an LLM on my Arduino Board… is it a challenge? Accepted! The issue Installing with the procedure from https://ollama.com/download does not work because the / partition of the Arduino is too small. In case you already tried it, just remove the data with: sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/ollama The installation Essentially download and install in /home: mkdir -p /home/arduino/ollama curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/download/ollama-linux-arm64.tar.zst \ | sudo tar x --zstd -C /home/arduino/ollama sudo ln -s /home/arduino/ollama/bin/ollama /usr/local/bin/ollama sudo useradd -r -s /bin/false -U -m -d /home/arduino/ollama ollama sudo usermod -a -G ollama arduino sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/ollama.service Paste this content in the editor: ...
A crazy idea The plan I’ve successfully used the pipeline Hugo -> GitHub -> CloudFlare Pages to build my personal website and rebuild my blog. I thought that I could ask Claude Code to write a program that monitors my “datacenter” and writes the output to a Hugo local website. Every 10 minutes it refreshes the pages. Potentially it would also be possible to publish it to a public URL. The development A directory called tintospia, two subdirs called tintospiacode and tintospiasite. Two corresponding GitHub repos. The first for the code, the second for Hugo’s site. I started presenting the schema to Claude Code and he approved it. He started developing pages for monitoring Veeam, ProxMox and Vmware. I chose an Ubuntu VM with 1vCPU and 4 GB Ram in a slow NUC 🙂 ...
My Home lab is now officially a Tier 1 Datacenter! It’s a joke naturally! But I am very proud of my new device: a CyberPower UPS! I waited a long time before taking this step, partly because, fortunately, power outages at my place have always been very rare and all caused by my own circuit breakers, never by the utility provider. And partly because finding a UPS that was quiet enough to be installed in a small home like mine seemed impossible. ...
Falsi amici italo inglesi e abusi vari Premessa: non ho niente contro la lingua inglese, che uso frequentemente, che vorrei conoscere meglio, etc etc. Trovo accettabile, senza eccessi, usare termini inglesi infrasi italiane. Quello che è insopportabile è sentire italianizzazioni maccheroniche e scorrette. Alcuni esempi: **Sfidante **come traduzione di challenging in italiano è un sostantivo, si usa per il pugile che sfida il campione del mondo per strappargli il titolo. ...
Geeks & Keyboards I treated myself to something I’d been planning for a while: a mechanical keyboard. I’m not a gamer, and I don’t type a lot either, but I felt like making the switch, even though I’d been happily using a decent *Logitech *for the past four years. new toy To play it safe, I went with a higher-end option: the Keychron K10 Max. It’s definitely less flashy than some cheaper boards out there that cost a third of the price and come loaded with cool extras like little auxiliary LCD screens. This one keeps it minimal — just 3 LEDs in a cross layout: one for *battery *status, one for… honestly no idea, and one for Caps Lock. No Num Lock indicator though! ...
S.A.: a new AI and defense stock’s NASDAQ great debut Swarmer Inc (SWMR) made a shocking debut yesterday, after entering the stock market. quoted at $5, it reached a value above $60 in one day. They produce AI, Combat-driven technology to manage drones and swarms of them. In 2026, Wars still push the innovation to the limits. And having a lot of real field experience enables progress, especially in AI.