Bits, Bytes, & Radio Waves

A quiet journey through discovery and understanding.

  • MyLab: Windows Server Failover Clustering

    Overview Sometimes we need to load balance Windows Servers and don’t have access to an enterprise grade load balancer, or just don’t need all the bells and whistles (and expense) that comes along with it. For this post, we are going to install and configure the Windows Server Failover Clustering feature.

  • How to Add NordVPN to Firewalla Gold

    Overview For this tutorial, I am going to use an iPhone 13 Pro, running iOS 16.5.1 (c) and using Firewalla Box version 1.9760 (a5437352). This tutorial will assume that you have a Firewalla Gold with the App connected and already have a subscription to NordVPN.

  • Removing Advanced vCenter Server Settings

    The other day I was working on a vCenter and had to evacuate the vCLS virtual machines from a failed cluster I was working on. If you are unfamiliar with this, here is the kb that explains how to do it. The short version is that you navigate to the cluster, capture the cluster id…

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Aaron Rombaut

Technologist & Writer