Arch Linux - the best (and the worst) Linux there is! Why is it the best and the worst at the same time you ask? Let me explain…

There are many answers to that question: some would say it’s a hyper-converged storage solution, while others would insist on calling it a software based distributed storage solution; it’s not hard to also find names such as software defined storage or hypervisor converged.

To get started with PowerNSX, we need to get PowerShell installed on our Linux system. As on my system I’m using Arch Linux, this guide will be mostly based on this distribution. If you are intrested in getting PowerShell on a diferent Linux flavour, please download the relevant package from this repository and process it according to your distro ways…

I’ve recently encountered a problem in my lab environment while trying to power on a virtual machine (let’s call it TheVM in this post):

Setting up VPN made simple through VMware NSX! If you ever had to deal with setting up a proper VPN environment using regular tools (OpenVPN Server, Fortigate, SonicWALL etc.), you are going to love it how simple it is (yet secure!) to manage your virtual private network(s) using the networking powerhouse (swiss-knife?) VMware NSX.