My failed migration of my Homelab from VMware to XCP-NG with XO
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My failed migration of my Homelab from VMware to XCP-NG with XO

The Backstory It is coming up on time to renew my VMug advantage, but with VMware dropping support for a lot of older hardware, plus Broadcom’s statement about not really caring about any one but their 5 biggest customers. I figure I should migrate to a more open source solution, plus my wallet will feel…

Configuring NGINX with HTTPS redirect and reverse proxying to multiple services

Configuring NGINX with HTTPS redirect and reverse proxying to multiple services

So I had an issue where I wanted to host multiple websites behind a single web address/IP address. I knew this was possible to do, but I didn’t know how. I also wanted it to be secured by HTTPS, which would require a redirect of all HTTP traffic. I stitched together the following. I commented…

Recovering Bitlocker recovery key when you have the password
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Recovering Bitlocker recovery key when you have the password

What we are actually doing This is a guide that walks you though decrypting a Bitlocker encrypted drive when you need to perform startup repair and don’t have the recovery key. What you need Background info So I had a problem this morning, my computer ran updates last night and some Windows startup files got…

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

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…

Reformatting NetApp Disks from 520 sector size to 512 sector size using FreeNAS (FreeBSD)
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Reformatting NetApp Disks from 520 sector size to 512 sector size using FreeNAS (FreeBSD)

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…