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Execute any binary on ESXi8

Execute any binary on ESXi8…


Relax SSH

A borrowed note on relaxing SSH…


ESXi Intel X710 LLDP Enablement

By default the Intel X710, Dell or Intel branded, have the LLDP agent enabled on the NIC adapter, which causes the DVSwitch’es or for you legacy folks, vSwitch’es to not be able to see LLDP information on the NIC. Fix is to disable the NIC Agent. For Example, if you have 4 total ports in…


PowerEdge 13G boot drive from consumer or enterprise SSD or NVMe via UEFI without BOSS

Use Case: Abiliy to boot an 13G node, either R630 or R730, when using the local RAID or HBA for a storage layer, and wanting to use an additional device for boot. With this procedure and some cheap hardware from Amazon, you can boot from a PCI device, with a U.2 or M.2 SSD or…


iDRAC Performance Issues

Do you have an iDRAC 8 that is acting sluggish, no virtual console, or take forever to validate credentials?…


FreeNAS iSCSI on R730xd with H730/HBA330/Optane 900P Passthrough in ESXi

In case you run into this like I did…


Add CA Certs or SSL Decryption Services to Fedora/Linux

To add a certificate in the simple PEM or DER file formats to the list of CAs trusted on the system: Copy it to the following directory: Then run the update command: If your certificate is in the extended BEGIN TRUSTED file format, then place it into the main source/ directory instead.


IPMIUtil to Change Supermicro Fan Thresholds

Some good guidance on using open source IPMIUtil to quiet annoying fans…


Handy NMAP Command for Open Ports

Just a quick, handy post if you are tired of running AngryIP scanner on windows to find open ports…


Human Readable Byte Conversion in T-SQL

A great post I found for doing human readable byte value conversion here:…