Can’t vMOTION Powered Off Virtual Machine

I had an issue where I could not vMOTION a powered off Virtual Machine. This virtual machine was quite large 1.2TB in total of disks attached. The VM was powered off and needed to be moved to some archive storage all on VMFS. When attempting to move it would start moving and after around 50 … Read more

MicroK8s (Kubernetes) – Raspberry Pi Ubuntu Linux Basic Setup Guide – Part 4 (Image Repositories)

https://microk8s.io/docs/registry-images So images. A container is based on an image. You can pull these images in from the outside world, e.g. from a Public, Private registry, or from the built-in registry. For this copy the “hello-python” directory we created in Part 2 into one called “hello-python3”, you can delete the .tar file in there for … Read more

MicroK8s (Kubernetes) – Raspberry Pi Ubuntu Linux Basic Setup Guide – Part 2 (Build Your Own Image and Deploy It)

Log onto your master node via SSH. We’re going to build an image and then deploy it, so as a developer you’d probably be developing on your own machine possibly running docker locally to test how your containers work before deploying the code to a repository where it can then be applied to a production … Read more

MicroK8s (Kubernetes) – Raspberry Pi Ubuntu Linux Basic Setup Guide – Part 1 (Getting Started)

Kuberntes is a platform for the managing of containerised workloads and services, that is akin to a declarative infrastructure as code type platform. It allows developers to deploy containerised applications quickly and easily and in such a way that infrastructure system administrators can manage the infrastructure for the applications to be as adaptable and flexible … Read more

Kemp Load Master and Palo Alto Firewall – Random Packet Drops and Disconnections

We had a rather irritating issue whereby we were seeing intermittent packet drops and connection failures on our Kemp Load Master. The Kemp Load Master sat inbetween a Palo Alto Firewall within a DMZ zone. Client connections from the Internet would be directed to the Kemp Load Master in the DMZ, which would then make … Read more