This is meant to be a collection of technical blogs. The subjects covered are from my own learning and experience in IT.
19 Nov 2022 1 minute read 0 comments powersjo
How to grant remote access OpenVPN on pfsense. In my home network I wanted to create a virtual private network (vpn) to allow me to access my home servers remotely. In this working blog I go through the steps I took. Part 1 After logging into pfsense...
25 Aug 2022 3 minute read 0 comments powersjo
How to create your own home lab NTP server? While I’m not an expert on NTP (network time protocol), I decided to create my own NTP server for my home network. This was for multiple reasons: To learn about NTP servers and clients. Take the load of NT...
23 Aug 2022 2 minute read 0 comments powersjo
This is how to create an iSCSI datastore in ESXi. In my case, I got a QNAP which allows for iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) connections to the storage. Briefly, iSCSI is a layer on top of TCP/IP that uses an initiator to connect to a...
1 Jul 2022 1 minute read 0 comments powersjo
How to list Veeam VM backups with PowerShell? Recently I came across a use-case where you may want to list out all of the Virtual Machines (VMs) backed up with Veeam. If you have multiple Veeam servers that backup 100’s of VMs, creating a list of VMs...
24 Apr 2022 7 minute read 1 comment powersjo
Creating your own calculator web app is a useful project to help beginners learn code and website hosting. When I started this project, I figured the hardest part to code would be the Javascript. This is because I thought since the logic lived there,...
23 Apr 2022 1 minute read 0 comments powersjo
First, ensure you have the right ESXi "offline bundle" from VMware. In my example, I have a Dell server. In order to update ESXi we need the DellEMC custom image from VMware. At the time of this blog, the most update to date image in the 6 series is...
17 Apr 2022 2 minute read 2 comments powersjo
Recently I have been a part of a few interviews and have had to prepare some IT interview questions for candidates. I thought I would post them here for future use and in case anyone wants to use them. I'm not posting answers for the questions. My me...
19 Mar 2022 2 minute read 0 comments powersjo
This blog will show you how to use dynamic DNS with Cloudflare. The purpose of dynamic DNS, DDNS, is to update your public DNS provider in the case the service you host is behind a changing public IP. Without DDNS, once your public IP changes, the se...
10 Mar 2022 3 minute read 0 comments powersjo
For this project, I needed a small webserver to host a single web page. After some research, I chose to install Lighttpd webserver on Ubuntu. As of yet, I don’t have an opinion of what webserver is better or worse for a single web page. I searched th...
6 Mar 2022 2 minute read 0 comments powersjo
How to deploy Ubuntu on VMware for free. In this guide, I'm describing how I deploy an Ubuntu server on VMware ESXi free version. The goal of this project is to have a place to host various application from home for *free*. Of course I already had bo...
