Bits, Bytes, & Radio Waves

A Journey Through Discovery

  • ITIL Service Lifecycle

    There are five stages of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). They start with Service Strategy at the core. Once you know what and why you need to do something, you can move to Service Design. The Service Design stage is where you start to meet services with identified business strategies. Once you have designed the…

  • Data Center Solutions that Interact with vSphere

    vSphere is comprised of the ESXi Hypervisor as well as vCenter. Additional offerings include vSAN, Horizon View for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure,  vRealize Suite, Site Recovery Manager (SRM), NSX, or VMware Cloud.

  • Explain Available vSphere Editions and Features

    Editions offered in version 6.5 vSphere Standard Edition vSphere Enterprise Plus Edition vSphere with Operations Management Enterprise Plus Features Business Continuity and Security Resource Prioritization and Enhanced Application Performance Automated Administration and Provisioning Intelligent Operations Management Platform Performance Monitoring and Analytics Capacity Management Extensibility Through Management Packs Log Analytics

  • Partitions & Filesystems

    Partitions You first need to create areas on your hard disk (HDD) to store data. This also equates to the amount of data you will store. When partitioning, you are basically slicing up available HDD space. Partitions are labeled by their physical nature first, then logical. The first disk is /dev/hda and the second disk…

  • Create and Change Hard and Symbolic Links

    Exam Objectives Covered: Create links Identify hard and/or soft links Copying versus linking files Use links to support system administration tasks Links in Linux are synonymous with shortcuts in the Windows world. They are not identical, but the idea is similar.  Specifically, the command ‘ln’, is used to make links between files. There are two…

  • Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)

    I wanted to begin with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) which is currently at version 3.0. The standard can be referenced below as well as at http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/fhs.shtml. Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 3.0 When I first began using Linux, I realized that all the files and directories were arranged in a particular way. I wondered why Linux…

This is how it all started…

I started this site with the intent to aggregate as much information as possible in one place. I use this to record lessons learned or frustrating configurations I have experienced on the job or just tinkering (learning) and just couldn’t find a better resource available. I have tried to be as thorough and accurate as possible, but technology is rapidly evolving and every environment is different. I may miss things along the way and my setup most likely differs compared to yours.

I hope you find this site has some value to you.

Welcome to Bits, Bytes, and Radio Waves! 

If you have any questions or comments (or just want to give me a shout-out), please feel free to contact me!

Aaron Rombaut

Writer & Technologist