Quickies

Who would have thought that ghosts of the past might not only haunt you in your dreams but also in your vSphere environment...

Am I on Linux or am I on Windows...? Boundaries between operating systems are getting a bit thin nowadays!

It's killing time in the virtual world.

AH! It’s `PSOD`! Let’s all run around and scream in terror as the apocalypse is upon us! Well, not really.

If your laptop/PC/virtual machine running Linux is booting straight to BIOS, it might indicate there’s something wrong with your boot partition (/boot). In this post I’m going to learn you a thing or two about fixing said /boot partition and recovering a broken Linux system.

Expanding a VMFS partition seems like an easy task – most of the time all we need to do is go to the storage tab of an ESXi host and use the “Increase Capacity” wizard.

With VMware vSphere you can migrate a vmdk virtual disk to a different VM retaining Windows NTFS permissions in a very easy way. This allows you to quickly migrate the data from in an event of File Server redesign or emergency failover (i.e. during a cyber attack etc.)

Few days ago, I was doing regular upgrades within one of the vSphere environments I’m responsible for. During these upgrades, I’ve noticed there are some Windows 2008 R2 servers still on vHardware version 10.

Veeam Management Console is a handy application usually found on the main Veeam server within the infrastructure or on a dedicated “Console” server. While the console itself is pretty awesome, it is sometimes quite tedious to troubleshoot or repair...

Let’s talk about virtual disks a bit – today we’re going to convert a VMDK from thin to thick provisioning. This operation is quite simple and doesn’t really require much preparation, however I thought I’ll post a quickie about it...