Ruud Harreman

To state the obvious; In every environment you should have configured NTP! That said; I recently stumbled upon a nice feature of the NTPD daemon which is widely used in Linux (ESXi/Photon). At my current assignment there is a massive upgrade throughout the entire network/infrastructure. One part of this upgrade is replacing the NTP servers. As a good and decent sysadmin I entered DNS names throughout the entire environment instead of using IP addresses. But here comes te tricky part….

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VMware has some really nice flings on flings.vmware.com although there are some rumors of the viability of these projects under the Broadcom flag for now they still exist :). The vSAN Performance monitor fling provides some verry cool Grafana dashboards which gives you a great inside of the performance on your vSAN cluster. vSAN Performance Monitor | VMware Flings After deploying the OVA you’ll get a VM with photonOS and 3 containers. Each with their own function. The installation of…

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