Homelab Nexenta on ESXi. In the article I wrote few days back I was building a NAS box for my lab and was going to use it not only as a pure storage box, but also as an ESXi host. At the same time I was going to explore the ZFS possibilities with L2ARC and ZIL […]
Building NAS Box With SoftNAS
I’ve recently bought some parts to replace my old NAS build to get more power and more IOPS. This NAS box will be used for lab only. I also recovered some parts from the old box, but added some SSD’s. The Mini-NAS will be used also as an ESXi box. While the Mini-ITX boards are […]
5 Tips to Speed Up WordPress Blog
There are some tips I’d like to share when it comes to speed up a blog. A blog that takes long time to load is usually not a good way to satisfy your visitors. What happens is rather the bad – your readers will escape as fast as they can from page. And If they’re […]
How-to Install VMware Tools on Ubuntu
How-to Install VMware Tools in Ubuntu if you’re new and don’t know the basic Linux commands? Just follow this article and the video. In this video you’ll see the two approaches of installing VMware Tools in Ubuntu based systems. First of all, the demo video from VMware KBTV shows the process while running the Ubuntu VM through VMware […]
How to use VMware Converter to Synchronize changes when P2V (or V2V)
VMware Converter is a great tool to convert Physical systems to virtual. Usually used for that purposes, in some scenarios, it can be used as poor man’s DR plan. I’ll show you how to use VMware Converter to synchronize changes when P2V(or V2V), and so actually keep another copy of that VM on another (Free) […]
5 Tips for WordPress Beginners
If you are using WordPress as a primary tool for writing blog posts, you might want to have a look at those 5 Tips for WordPress beginners. I use WordPress since 4-5 years now, and I still learn new stuff. Not only because that the blogging platform is constantly evolving, but also because I jumped into the writing without […]
TOP 5 things to do after installing WordPress
When you start a new blog, there is things that you have to do right after installing. WordPress installation is easy to do and most of the time it’s even provided by your hosting provider. But before start pumping out some content, let’s have a look what necessary steps you should take. TOP 5 things […]
How-to Reduce VMDK size: VMware Converter
Thin provisioned disks grow up with the time. When you work with a thin disk provisionned VM, you are copying new files into a VM, then deleting them, again and again, this process grow the thin disks over time. If you delete files from within the VM wanting to gain the space back, it just […]
How to check if your host is capable to run nested ESXi
Nested ESXi technology is fascinating. In my recent article Nested vSphere Lab -Ideas? , I was thinking about what hardware, or which way to go for a nested lab. By using nested virtualization It’s great way to learn more about those virtualization technologies, without ruining yourself. Not only you can learn about VMware but also Hyper-V. […]
VMware Converter Standalone 5.0.1 – file menus in different language
I’ve had this “problem” with VMware Converter standalone 5.0.1 since a while, but I was just not paying attention to it since it wasn’t blocking. Just annoying What I’m talking about? When running the VMware Converter software, it showed the File menus and labels in French. I’m running English localized Windows 7 x64 system. Not […]
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