The experiences of an autodidact with David Russel Trask

Extending a linux LVM partition after expanding its virtual hard drive using parted

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This assumes you already have expanded the hard drive within VMware or VirtualBox, or whatever your virtualization solution you use. You will also need to make sure parted is installed on the system you are working on. This guide is using GNU parted 3.1 Disclaimer: Parted is a partition modification tool make sure you have…
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Reformatting NetApp Disks from 520 sector size to 512 sector size using FreeNAS (FreeBSD)

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So I have some disks I got from a friend, he got them off ebay and they didn’t work for him, he couldn’t get his RAID controller to format them at all. After doing some research I came to the conclusion he didn’t have the equipment needed to reformat them. I offered to buy them…
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Creating Custom ESXi Image

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So my whitebox ESXi server doesn’t have drivers for ESXi out of the box the following is how I created a custom image with the necessary drivers. Requirements Procedure Create a folder to work in, in that folder create a folder labeled “Offline” Get the ESXi 6.7 Offline depot files and put them in the…
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Building an ESXi White Box

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This is the story of my migration from expensive to run server rack equipment, to a cheap both in build and to run, VMware ESXi white box. Let’s start with a quick run-down of my equipment to date. First off, this was all free. So as you can imagine, the specs aren’t great but that…
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