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Customize your Linux or bash shell style with PS1 definitions in .bashrc

Something you can do to keep the CLI entertaining is to customize it to your liking. Sometimes, the default shell style can just be cumbersome to look at. If you want to change the appearance, it’s actually really easy! No Read more…

By Tyler Woods, 5 yearsMay 10, 2018 ago
Virtualization

How to downgrade virtual machine hardware version – VMWare

After running ESXi 6.5 for a while, I decided to downgrade my environment to ESXi 6.0   The only problem with this was that my VMs were all hardware version 13 for 6.5 and so they wouldn’t run on my Read more…

By Tyler Woods, 5 years ago
Linux Server

How to install Heimdall Application Dashboard on Ubuntu 16.04

From their GitHub Page: As the name suggests Heimdall Application Dashboard is a dashboard for all your web applications. It doesn’t need to be limited to applications though, you can add links to anything you like.   Heimdall is an Read more…

By Tyler Woods, 5 yearsApril 25, 2018 ago
Virtualization

Install Dell OpenManage Server Administrator 9.1 for VMWare vSphere ESXi 6 and 6.5

It’s that time again! Dell has released another version of their OpenManage Server administrator. They officially support vSphere versions 6.0 and 6.5 with this version on 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th-generation poweredge servers.   Here is how to download/install OMSA Read more…

By Tyler Woods, 5 years ago
Virtualization

How to fix Shockwave Flash crashing with vSphere Web Client 6.X

What happened? It came as a surprise to me that a few of my production vSphere and vCenter environments all started exhibiting issues with the vSphere web client. I tried on every browser, both Windows and Mac, but kept getting Read more…

By Tyler Woods, 5 yearsOctober 19, 2017 ago
Virtualization

How to use VMWare PVSCSI driver in Windows Virtual Machine

VMware PVSCSI Driver in Windows Server (2016) Have you ever seen this error when trying to install Windows to a VM? It’s probably because the Paravirtual SCSI driver is not loaded. Windows doesn’t contain this driver, so it’s necessary to Read more…

By Tyler Woods, 5 yearsOctober 18, 2017 ago
File Services

Enabling Disk Performance Counters in Windows Server 2016 Task Manager

Enabling the disk performance counters on the newer Windows Server operating systems can be easily forgotten about, but it can provide some really good info in the task manager which I find myself missing on servers that do not have Read more…

By Tyler Woods, 5 yearsOctober 16, 2017 ago
VMWare ESXi

How to enable SSH access to your ESXi server

Here’s to all the articles I’ve implicitly stated “enable SSH access” or “SSH should be enabled” but offered no further assistance for those who wanted to know how to do that. Now I can link to this post! xD Enabling Read more…

By Tyler Woods, 5 years ago
Storage

How to install Synology NFS VAAI VIB on vSphere ESXi

Does your Synology NFS datastore look like this? Is Hardware Acceleration “not supported”? Well, you’re lucky because this is a quick and vendor-supported fix. By enabling the VAAI plugin, you will see much better performance and also gain access to Read more…

By Tyler Woods, 5 yearsOctober 10, 2017 ago
Hyper-V

The Best Way to Convert VMware ESXi 6.5 VM to Hyper-V Virtual Machine (2017)

Usually I find that I’ll need to convert a Hyper-V VM to VMWare ESXi, but in this rare scenario, I had to convert ESXi 6.5 Virtual Machines into Hyper-V (2012 R2) virtual machines. This is trivial if you have a Read more…

By Tyler Woods, 5 yearsOctober 6, 2017 ago

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