by skufel | Dec 8, 2011 | Infrastructure, Network, Virtualization
VMware Workstation and GNS3 are two platforms which are very handy to test and evaluate solutions before live implementation. By default each of those platforms is separate, however both have components which allow integration. What that means is that it is possible...
by skufel | Dec 8, 2011 | Automation, Infrastructure, Virtualization
Often using VMware Workstation platform we need to quickly create new virtual machine. reasons for that might be different. For example additional machine for our Lab environment or just quick test without affecting other machines we have setup in our virtual...
by skufel | Dec 8, 2011 | Infrastructure, Network
This is simple Lab environment I built when was working on IPsec VPN tunnel between our internal network environment and 3rd party vendor systems. As we had some issues with establishing IPsec communication, to make sure that everything is fine on my side I start...
by skufel | Dec 8, 2011 | Automation, Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin
Some time ago I received request to automate file transfer between FTP server and Development systems. Both, FTP server and Development system, are Windows-based. FTP server was running FTP over SSL only, so that automatically eliminated built-in Windows FTP...