After a lot of thinking 🙂 I have decided to merge my two blogs previously at www.vmwhere.net and jayakumar.co.in into a single site/blog here at www.jayakumar.org. The reason was simple, am lazy and do not want to maintain two sites. Plus after I moved out of VMware late last year I don’t feel the need…
Thanks to a catastrophic failure during migration from a private server to a shared server, all the site downloads are gone 🙁 the blogs posts, comments etc basically everything that was on the database we were able to recover from a db backup, but anything on the filesystem is gone. So all the virtual machine…
I have a small 🙂 NAS box with 6 x 1TB HDD in RAID 6 and 4 x 500GB HDD in RAID 5. Recently thanks to the arrival of my baby girl and a HD handy cam, I was running out of space fast on the array and so when when I saw a decent…
an awesome new feature in the just released ESXi 4.1 is the ability to do PXE boot and script the install using a kick-start script. If you looking for information on how to do this see here at billhill’s post. http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/vmwareinsmb/2010/07/13/esxi-41-scripted-installation-via-pxe-and-kickstart However while adding that feature VMware seems have slightly broken the PXE boot, but…
Okay, I have to google this information every-time I need it, to so am going to blog it, so that I know exactly where to look for it 🙂 Setting up a proxy from the GUI on you browser or system does not always work for command line utilities like apt-get, yum, wget or customer…