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A blog about experiments in my homelab

  • Managing  external certificates with certify the web!

    Managing external certificates with certify the web!

    Because I have my own homelab I have some resources I want to connect to over the web without connecting to a vpn at home like my own password manager and my own citrix gateway setup. Because of this I was in the need for an external certificate that validates if I connect to the…

  • Cleanup of named items on all datastores on VMware Vcenter

    Cleanup of named items on all datastores on VMware Vcenter

    When working in the field, performing some maintance on a customer environment that had been migrated to a new version of Citrix PVS, we needed to delete all boot image’s from all datastores on vCenter. When observing how many hosts and datastores were present in this environment I asked myself the question: “Do we already…

  • Automatic cleanup of VMware snapshot with Ivanti automation

    Automatic cleanup of VMware snapshot with Ivanti automation

    Whenever I do an automatic update from an appliance, I always make a snapshot. However, the other day, while browsing through my vCenter, I noticed a lot of older snapshots that I hadn’t cleaned up. So I asked myself, “Isn’t there a way to automatically clean up this mess with custom attributes?” I began by…