Bits, Bytes, & Radio Waves

A quiet journey through discovery and understanding.

  • Configuring a Do-It-Yourself Web Server

    So the time has come again that I would like to build a web server! This time, though, I want to build it with software that is not from any distribution’s package management. You may ask why I would want to do something like this? Well, I want to learn the process because up until…

  • ITIL Service Lifecycle

    There are five stages of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). They start with Service Strategy at the core. Once you know what and why you need to do something, you can move to Service Design. The Service Design stage is where you start to meet services with identified business strategies. Once you have designed the…

  • Data Center Solutions that Interact with vSphere

    vSphere is comprised of the ESXi Hypervisor as well as vCenter. Additional offerings include vSAN, Horizon View for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure,  vRealize Suite, Site Recovery Manager (SRM), NSX, or VMware Cloud.

Notes from practice

I use this site to document systems, configurations, and lessons learned as I work through real problems—both professionally and through personal experimentation. The goal is clarity: understand how something works, explain why it behaves the way it does, and make it reliable and repeatable.

These notes are written primarily for myself, but shared openly in case they help someone else avoid a dead end or reduce frustration. If you’d like to learn more, visit the About page.

If you have questions or comments, you’re always welcome to contact me.

Aaron Rombaut

Technologist & Writer