almost daily tech ramblings
robert About 2 weeks ago, I noticed in vRealize Operations Manager that one of my VDI hosts was experiencing higher than normal CPU contention. What was more interesting was that 90% of all VMs on that host had high cpu usage. Moving a VM off the host, brought down CPU utilization, however, any VM moving to … Read more
After many hours of tinkering, below are the steps I’ve used to run 2 WordPress sites on one LightSail instance. This is assuming that you have DNS running and you have your A records set correctly. In my case its techstuff and introspection. I would’ve made my life a lot easier if I just went … Read more
Newly-ish created VPS is getting attacked Oct 9 13:28:52 ip-xxx-xx-xx-xxx sshd[2006]: Received disconnect from 95.215.62.242: 11: Bye Bye [preauth] Oct 9 13:28:53 ip-xxx-xx-xx-xxx sshd[2008]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for niggacanttouchme [95.215.62.242] failed – POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! Oct 9 13:28:53 ip-xxx-xx-xx-xxx sshd[2008]: Received disconnect from 95.215.62.242: 11: Bye Bye [preauth] Oct 9 13:28:54 ip-xxx-xx-xx-xxx sshd[2010]: reverse … Read more
I’ve moved to Amazon Lightsail from 1and1. With the increase cost of running WordPress from 1and1, I’ve completely moved off it and am now running on Amazon Lightsail., along with DNS management by Amazon Route 53. My costs of hosting a WP site and DNS should drop dramatically Amazon Lightsail is the one click … Read more
very strange situation today. I performed a single disk svMotion on my vCenter VM which also had 4 mapped raw LUNs. However, after a reboot, the VM never came back on line saying that it cannot find the boot device. after much tinkering around, I performed the following to get my vCenter back: Attached Server … Read more
well… I don’t really work with IPTables too much… but note to self. When adding a new rule, add it before the reject all statement.
So I ran into an issue where a client had recently requested a VM from backup and to restore it as a new VM, which was non-eventful. The issue came up when I tried to edit failover IP within the ZVM, however, I could not make any changes to the VPG. I contacted Zerto support … Read more
So I preordered the Google Pixel XL the day of the announcement on October 4th,and the phone came in today. Haven’t really played around with it too much as I’ve been loading apps that I want to I use. I could’ve just installed all off the automatically but I’ve been wanting to clean up my phone … Read more
Ran into a “bug” last week while upgrading vCNS to NSX v6.1.5. It turns out that if you had VXLAN already configured, the sequence that the package installs its’ components is out of order. That’s one part of the bug, the other shows that the hosts are ready within the NSX manager when it really … Read more
