Archive
Author: Richard Bailey
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Grafana SSL Setup: Enable HTTPS with a Trusted Certificate
Configuring SSL/TLS to enable HTTPS on your Grafana instance is a critical step to protect your data, credentials, and visualizations. This guide provides a clear, step-by-step process for… Read the guide
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Azure Site Recovery for VMware servers: Practical Guide
In this guide, I will demonstrate step-by-step how to install and configure Azure Site Recovery for on-premise VMware vCenter servers. Azure site recovery performs both replication and orchestration… Read the guide
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VMWare Virtual Appliance Interface (VAMI) – Log-In Failed: Practical Guide
The VMware Appliance has a web interface and SSH login capability. After vSphere version 5.5, the old-style Java-based client was phased out, replaced by the much more responsive… Read the guide
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How to Configure Time with NTP and Chronyd
NTP (Network Time Protocol) is important because it allows computers and other networked devices to synchronize their clocks with a highly accurate reference time source. This is critical… Read the guide
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How to Manage Users and Groups in Red Hat Linux
User management in Linux refers to the process of creating, modifying, and deleting user accounts on a Linux system. It includes tasks such as creating new user accounts,… Read the guide
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How to Configure Linux Local Storage: Step-by-Step Guide
Effective Linux Storage management is no longer a luxury but a necessity. Mastering the art and science of disk management ensures not only optimal system performance but also… Read the guide
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How to use Red Hat (RHEL8) as a Linux VM host
This is part 5 of the learning Red Hat series on my blog. Did you know you can use Red Hat as a Virtual Machine host? In fact… Read the guide
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How to Reset Lost Root Password on Linux
Sometimes, a lost root password reset is needed; perhaps a system administrator has left your place of work and not documented the root password, or you have experienced… Read the guide
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Understanding Red Hat File System Permissions: Practical Guide
This is an overview of everything permissions based. There are a number of different ways to find out file permissions in Linux. One of my favourite Linux commands… Read the guide
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Grep and Regex Cheat Sheet for Linux Admins
A practical grep and regex cheat sheet for Linux and RHCSA-style administration tasks, grouped by matching, extraction, counting, context, recursive search, exclusions, and useful patterns. Read the guide