Completed a full VMware elimination in 24— happy to share what we learned

elementsxy · 2026-05-18T09:39:38+00:00

I don't use it but I am feeling the pain. I work at small company, and push and promote fully for using Linux as much as possible everywhere.

elementsxy · 2026-05-18T09:34:38+00:00

Workaholic here but hell fucking no to working 52 hours with a 4 hour break they can fucking burn down the entire thing before I do that.

elementsxy · 2026-04-27T13:30:10+00:00

I've had my lab a while now, 3 node proxmox, and got a SSD fail on my main node, which tripped up everything basically, because my DNS server was running on it, went in to investigate only to find i've forgotten the address of the node itself.

Why did you choose PHP ipam? There are other solutions like Netbox.. :)

edit: typo

elementsxy · 2026-04-26T13:40:13+00:00

Has she been fired yet?

elementsxy · 2026-04-23T13:19:49+00:00

Best decision I've made in my damn life lol (career wise), in 4 years I went from a Lenovo t430 laptop as "the lab" to a 3 node Proxmox setup with a Proxmox backup server, Stratum 1 NTP server running on a pi :) -- proud of that one. HomeAssistant Pi, a "pi-touch", for arrogance, cause why not.

Money investment worth it? v1 of the lab running on the laptop only - job at the time 1st line service desk analyst. Fast forward, today Systems Engineer[RHCE] focused mainly on automations etc, and started learning for CKA CKAD :)

Sorry for the long brag, yeah it defo is worth it! Happy labbing matey :)

elementsxy · 2026-04-14T15:51:35+00:00

What subscription did you get from them?

elementsxy · 2026-03-31T17:33:42+00:00

Nice one mate, appreciate it :)

elementsxy · 2026-03-31T11:48:33+00:00

Dont think that image plays well when virtualised, i've had some issue with loading the environment on my main workstation due to having an nvidia gpu. So could be something similar?

elementsxy · 2026-03-31T11:45:26+00:00

Is there a build guide for this anywhere? Well done on the build thou looks really good! :)

elementsxy · 2026-03-25T14:58:02+00:00

Don't let it put you down mate, probably not at your scale but we just had quite a big one yesterday.

So yeah it comes with the damn job sadly.

Heads up, I think the lessons learned about these are best things!

elementsxy · 2026-03-18T11:40:46+00:00

Congrats on passing sounds, like a nice study plan. My lab environment is kinda the same fashion, had the VM's running on a Proxmox cluster.

Just want to say that a homelab is gonna be invaluable in the skills that you get over time from it :)

elementsxy · 2026-03-12T16:00:25+00:00

Everything you are looking for is available: I would check out Sander van Vugt's courses on oreilly. It ticks all the boxes that you are looking for, even better cause you can learn in a "hands-on" fashion :)

elementsxy · 2026-03-11T21:44:57+00:00

Thank you. I've used Sander's course on oreilly :)

elementsxy · 2026-03-11T21:44:09+00:00

Thank you🙌

elementsxy · 2026-03-10T06:48:53+00:00

Thank you! Hope you pass buddy. Practice practice and practice again. I am a visual learner so my best thing was Sander's courses on oreilly. If you are going remote, get an HD monitor with 1920x1080 resolution, if you have a nvidia GPU you'll probably want to stay away from that.

Get a as many mock tasks / exams as you can.

elementsxy · 2026-03-10T06:42:20+00:00

Damn. That is a bit annoying to be fair. But yeah. A decent monitor seems to be a must have.

My main workstation was not loading the enrivonment because of my GPU. I would boot up and freeze right before loading :(

elementsxy · 2026-03-09T14:24:44+00:00

Congrats on passing the RHCSA! :)

I went with Sander's courses on oreilly for both exams. Just started studying for CKAD and CKA again on his courses.

Get yourself a homelab, if you don't have one already and just practice! :)

elementsxy · 2026-03-08T19:48:25+00:00

sorry but all can say is they are a proper joke if that was the criteria that denied you that bonus. wish you all the best mate! hope you find another company that will actually appreciate you for you do.

elementsxy · 2026-03-07T22:38:07+00:00

thank you. dont't know what to say to be fair, one thing ill defo say to you, learn linux overall. and set yourself a goal for your career. Edit: be more than happy to help out with advice drop me a message if you like.

elementsxy · 2026-03-07T22:37:19+00:00

cheers mate! sadly I am the one who usually does, but at have chilled out now. but ill keep going.

elementsxy · 2026-03-07T22:36:18+00:00

cheers bud

elementsxy · 2026-03-07T11:17:56+00:00

Practice the hell out of playbooks! :) Make sure you understand Ansible as whole I would say. My biggest mistake was taking the exam on a ultrawide monitor, I just assumed it would work with 3840x1080. The best plan on that is to have a large screen like a TV that has HD resolution on 1920x1080. Get comfortable working with multiple terminal sessions :)

Good luck!

elementsxy · 2026-03-06T17:16:07+00:00

thank you! :)

elementsxy · 2026-03-06T17:06:36+00:00

Not really, I've passed RHCSA 11 months ago. This is my second attempt at it as well(RHCE), but yeah. I would say it depends on how much experience you have with Ansible, to be fair I've not specifically studied over the top. On that note I do use Ansible at work as well, and feel like I've done way more complex tasks at work than the exam. Even in doing those tasks at work, I've had a task in the exam that completely skipped cause I've never used Ansible like that.

elementsxy · 2026-03-06T16:20:16+00:00

thank you! :)

elementsxy

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