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Latest — 28 Jul 2026

الدرس الأول: من هي نيوتنكس

السلام عليكم و رحمة الله وبركاته. اليوم بنبدي أولي دروسنا لسلسة نيوتنكس بس بالعربي. في أول درس من السلسلة بنتطرق حق موضوع قد ما يفكر فيه أغلب المهندسين التقنيين. الموضوع اللي بنتطرق عنه اليوم هو التعرف على شركة نيوتنكس Nutanix بحد ذاتها. البعض قد يتسائل ليش أحتاج أعرف الشركة قبل

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عدنا والعود أحمد

من بعد انقطاع دام لسنوات بنعود لكم بحلة جديدة و لغة جديدة و محتوى جديد ان شاء الله ينال على اعجابكم. مثل ما انتو قاعدين تقرؤون المحتوى الجديد بيكون بالعربي و بنغطي مجموعة جديدة من المواضيح اللي غالبا بتكون على شكل سلاسل تعليمية في قالب بسيط لكن متحوى علمي عالي

And we are back

Hey there. If you are reading this it means this blog has successfully migrated from the old plaform which was wordpress to a newer and arguebly cleaner platform that is Ghost CMS. Hemotips has decided to move away from wordpress for some reasons. The first reason is that the former

EVE-NG Installation on VirtualBox

A conversation in Birmingham: A story based on true events Once upon a time in a cloudy and chilly winter day in Birmingham, a conversation between hemo and Mr. X took a place. A conversation about network emulators and how important they are. Act 1: The conversation Mr. X: There

OpenSSL on Windows

It was a lovely Tuesday at the office after sipping some Earl Grey Hemo received a phone call from the his manager. Manager: Hey Hemo. I have a task for you for today. We have renewed our wildcard certificate and I need to you generate a certificate a new Certificate

Let's connect the home lab to the Internet.

Previously on Hemotips The routers can ping each other and VMs can reach the Internet. I was happy with the results. The happiness did not last for long. The maximum speed the VMs can get is 8 Mbps. The ping latency between the two routers was about 2000 milliseconds. Thus,

Home lab upgrade - Routers

In the last few days, I upgraded the network setup of my home lab. I have replaced two over a decade old CISCO 2610 routers with a newer router. The previous routers were replaced not for their old age; Until they were decommisioned they were working flawlessly. They were decommissioned

VMDK split files merging: The hard way

The previous versions of vSphere supported deploying virtual machines from an OVF template with split VMDK files. However, starting 6.5 VMware removed support for chunked VMDK files. As a result, vSphere 6.5 may not deploy old templates. VMware fixed this issue by releasing a tool that combines VMDK

Task of the day: Move a file using robocopy

A few days ago, I observed something is wrong in the workflow of a unit in a different department. Their workflow requires retrieving a video through FTP and then moving the files to another folder to be transcoded. The process of moving files from a folder to another is currently

Task of the day: Install CentOS

Somewhere on earth in an IT department in a company there is a happy and excited junior system administrator at work. The junior is excited and happy because a brand-new server just arrived. Unfortunately, the happiness and excitement didn’t last long after knowing that the server came without