My HDD Failed – But ddrescue Saved the Day
On Tuesday morning my HDD failed on my PC at the office. Most of my important data is in a NFS volume on a FAS6030, but my PC still had some important stuff...
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VMware Workstation & Ubuntu 8.10 Ctrl-Alt-Ins not working
Well, if some of you haven’t heard (from twitter) – I recently lost my HDD. Which not only stinks, but it is a huge pain having to rebuild to exactly how you...
Storage Efficiency Article in Tech OnTap
Well, my article in NetApp’s Tech OnTap was published this morning. It was pretty exciting being asked by the #1 Employer in the United States to write an a...
USB On Your Virtual Machine
Eric Sloof recently wrote about FabulaTech, which has a product called USB Over Network. This is a very nice software based client/server application that tu...
NetApp – #1 Best Company to Work For
As featured today in Fortune Magazine, NetApp was announced to be the #1 Best Company to Work for in 2009. This is not surprising, their work ethics and ...
Cloning a Physical Linux PC that uses LVM
I know this isn’t virtualization related, but a colleague of mine was attempting to clone 20 HP x4600 desktops running RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 and was havi...
VMwareTips.com Now On virtualization.alltop.com
I just received word that VMware Tips is now being syndicated on virtualization.alltop.com. This site is very similiar to what VMware’s Planet V12n is, but t...
VMwareTips.com Goes Mobile!
VMwareTips.com is now available on your mobile phone’s web browser! Including your Windows Mobile, Apple iPhone and any other device supporting Mobile Web 2....
Mass VM Shutdown Script
Well, if you haven’t already figured out I’m big on shell scripts and Unix/Linux in general, so when my company informed me that they needed to bring down on...
SSH from ESX host to ESX host with No Password
Sometimes you need to script a job that SSH’s into another ESX host, problem is you will be prompted for a password—pretty much taking out all the automation...