When cheap and simple turns into anything but…
I’ve ran a single 3TB Seagate for a few years in my stripped down workstation server for media and it’s been “fine”. Even made a hacked drive cage for it. Then a few weeks...
Category: Servers
Update: Patching VMWare ESXi 5.1
So I finally got around to patching my ESXi server which was several months behind. I thought I would just be able to use the same command I used previously wrote about to update...
Installing Box.net Sync on Windows Server
Anyone who’s tried to install the Box.net Sync client on Windows Server knows how much trouble it will give you. Since Box.net does not officially support server operating systems (which strikes me as odd...
Shell Script: Splunk Syslog Server Update script
Here is a set of upgrade scripts I’ve created to automatically upgrade Splunk Syslog Server on Linux. This is primarily written with ubuntu server in mind, specifically 12.04 LTS, though it’s easily editable for...
On the Dell CS24-SC Server….
I sure anyone looking for a cheap rackmount server on eBay or many other sites has come across this server. It’s everywhere but information is hard to come by about it. Even Dell Support...
Virusscan Software for Windows Server
Anyone who has tried to install virusscan software on their server knows that the activity can quickly become more of a pain than it is worth. When trying to find virusscan software for Windows...
Manually upgrading ESXi 5.0 to ESXi 5.1
I finally got around to updating my ESXi server today. Since I don’t have the hardware to run vCenter and thus do not use it I had to do it the manual way. This...
Convert a existing Virtual Disk on ESXi from Thick Provisioning to Thin Provisioning and vice versa
I was playing around on my ESXi server and noticed most of my servers were using under 10GB yet most where consuming between 20-45GB of datastore space. This is because when I set them...
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