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Hammond.Solutions Updates

May 2025

  • While researching SuSe Harvester and Proxmox, we made the tough decision that it is time for a server hardware refresh in our lab. Most of the month has been spent learning product models and scouring eBay. We are happy to share that parts are on order.

April 2025

  • Towards the end of March, we had severe storms that caused power outages. Unforutnaaly, our lab virtualization servers were not able to recover from that. Thank goodness, we had recent full backups!
  • We are now considering a migration to SuSe Harvester or Proxmox using Ceph. HPE released VE in February, but we do not think it is a Free Open Source (FOSS) project though.
  • Refreshed our lab's switching core.

March 2025

  • Migrated from Ubiquiti UniFi to a Cisco Catalyst with a embedded Wireless Controller.

November 2024 - February 2025

  • We wrote documentation to migrate a Domain Controller with Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP from Windows 2019 to Windows 2022.
  • We wrote documentation to migrate a Certificate Authority from Windows 2019 to Windows 2022.
  • We wrote documentation to migrate a File Server from Windows 2019 to Windows 2022.
  • We wrote a Powershell script to generalize a template VM without using third-party tools.
  • We wrote a Powershell script to create CSRs and generate certs.
  • We wrote a Powershell script to update the CRLs as a Windows Scheduled Task.
  • We updated sample run-books for setting up a new Nutanix AHV cluster.

June-October 2024

  • We upgraded all of our systems from Rocky 8 to Rocky 9.
  • We wrote documentation on creating a Tac Plus NG server server.

May 2024

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