Bits, Bytes, & Radio Waves

A quiet journey through discovery and understanding.

  • Explain Available vSphere Editions and Features

    Editions offered in version 6.5 vSphere Standard Edition vSphere Enterprise Plus Edition vSphere with Operations Management Enterprise Plus Features Business Continuity and Security Resource Prioritization and Enhanced Application Performance Automated Administration and Provisioning Intelligent Operations Management Platform Performance Monitoring and Analytics Capacity Management Extensibility Through Management Packs Log Analytics

  • Partitions & Filesystems

    Partitions You first need to create areas on your hard disk (HDD) to store data. This also equates to the amount of data you will store. When partitioning, you are basically slicing up available HDD space. Partitions are labeled by their physical nature first, then logical. The first disk is /dev/hda and the second disk…

  • Create and Change Hard and Symbolic Links

    Exam Objectives Covered: Create links Identify hard and/or soft links Copying versus linking files Use links to support system administration tasks Links in Linux are synonymous with shortcuts in the Windows world. They are not identical, but the idea is similar.  Specifically, the command ‘ln’, is used to make links between files. There are two…

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