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Lab Maintenance: Nightly vCenter Backups to TrueNAS NFS, and a Full Restore Test
Daily file-based vCenter backups to a TrueNAS NFS share, then a full two-stage restore to prove them: matching the installer build, the PNID check that rejects a temporary IP, the long wait at 97%, and the Veeam job that needed fixing afterwards.
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Lab Maintenance: Nightly MikroTik Config Backups to Gitea
Every night the lab Git server exports all three MikroTik switches over a read-only SSH account and commits only what changed.
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Lab Maintenance: Firmware Updates on a Running VCF Cluster
Installing VCF is the exciting part. Keeping it healthy afterwards is the part that matters. Server firmware is a big piece of that: BIOS, the iDRAC, storage controllers, network cards and drives all get regular fixes, and a good share of them are security fixes rather than new features. This post is the routine I…