Nutanix CE (Community Edition) is a free, community-supported version of Nutanix’s enterprise cloud platform.

DevOps engineers play a vital role in the infrastructure and software development process, where they work closely with the development and operations teams to streamline the delivery pipeline. A DevOps engineer needs to ensure that the infrastructure development process is efficient, automated, and scalable. One of the essential tools that a DevOps engineer needs to have is a lab environment.

I wanted to replace my old ESXi homelab server. Not only it is aging, it has an antique Intel quadcore Q6600 processor, but I also get more frequently the famous purple screens.

I am hosting marcelvenema.com at my own home. I am using a virtual machine on my research and development infrastructure.

This ‘infrastructure’ is a big word for 2 servers running an Intel i5 processor with 32GB RAM each, a server with a i7 processor and 32GB RAM and a small HTPC. All are connected to two Synology NAS systems. The home-build servers are all running a different hypervisor, Citrix XenServer, VMWare ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V. Just because it is research and development, the change that something will break is more than average.

In June 2012 I started the CommunityCloud to share knowledge between co-workers, friends and colleagues. The goal is to share and exchange information between each other....

I am very surprised how many people don’t know this fantastic small tool. It is standard Windows functionality since Windows 7 and if you need to report a bug or document installation or configuration steps, this tool is a ‘must-have’. I am talking about the (Problem) Steps Recorder, PSR.EXE