PKI Infrastructure – Introduction & Certificate Lifetimes

With this first post, I will start a small series of blogs on how to install and configure a Microsoft Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). There are plently of other set of articles on the internet on how to setup PKI solutions on Windows Server and Linux. But I’m...

Running ScaleIO in the HomeDC

In this Post, I will describe how I have come about in deploying a ScaleIO Software-Defined Storage in the Home Datacenter. Over the course of 2016, I have upgraded my clusters from VMware Virtual SAN Hybrid (Flash for Caching Tier and SAS Enterprise disks for...

Issuing CA Renewal operation

There is a german proverb “Ubung macht den Meister” that I have always tried to apply to my day to day computer science skills. While dealing with my Public Key Infrastructure in the home datacenter (#HomeDC), this means having a proper multi-tier PKI...

Network core switch Cisco Nexus 3064PQ

Here is my new network core switch for the Home Datacenter, a Cisco Nexus 3064PQ-10GE. But before I speak more about the Cisco Nexus 3064PQ-10GE, let me just bring you back in time… Two years ago, I purchased a Cisco SG500XG-8F8T 16-port 10-Gigabit Stackable...