Ran into an issue this morning while changing some network switch ports around where all of a sudden vMotion was no longer working. I did not change the VMware configuration, only the ports in which they were plugged into.
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This is just a quick reference for myself, but it may help others as well. If you search for “sharedate:*” within the Evernote client, it will display all the shared notes within your account.
Wow. Such a slick little system. I am surprised that I did not venture down this path a long time ago. For about $60, you can have quite a flexible little system. Best of all, its designed to run on Debian Linux. For me, the cost includes the Raspberry Pi Board, a basic plastic case, and a small SD card.
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Moving some storage around this evening created a situation where my primary VM datastore was imported on one of my hosts with a new signature file. This had repercussions on the other host in the cluster, causing a situation where when the datastore was being detected through the iSCSI adapter, but not being displayed in the storage window. If the storage was manually added through the vSphere GUI, it would only allow a reformat.
CLI to the rescue.
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Updating to ESXi 5.5 was a pretty straightforward task overall. One of my ESXi hosts upgraded without any complications. The second host hung during “relocating modules and starting up the kernel” of the initilization of the installer.
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CrashPlan’s backup solution is comparable to many others out there. They have an application that runs on your PC that backs up the data to a web based server. The client application encrypts the data and attempts to compress it. At $4 per month for unlimited backup space, CrashPlan however is one of the cheaper solutions available at the time of this posting. With the backup service selected, I wanted to set the prioritization of the traffic to avoid issues with other web based applications.
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Every so often I am using a system that inserts a A, B, C, or D when using the arrow keys within the Vim editors insert mode. Vim is for VI Improved. While I did not dig into the exact reasons as to why (terminal emulation?) it happens, it is quite annoying. The fix was simple in my case.
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The storage that is running blog.destephen.com is a product of several iterations of lab Network Attached Storage (NAS) setups. What it developed into today allows storage and playback of 1080i home videos, bulk storage of personal files, as well as running 30+ VM’s on a daily basis. This post, while long, walks through the some features and through processes along the way of designing the 21 disk, 25 TB system.
A programmable thermostat allows you save some energy while you are away. Now, for the technology enthusiast, you need to be able to control the thermostat remotely.
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Drafting some new posts that included images from a DLSR camera. The uploaded images resulted in the default WordPress upload size be maxed out. Not hard to do, the default was set at 2MB.
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