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VMware disables a major feature of ESXi – this is how you reenable it.
VMware disables a major feature of ESXi – this is how you reenable it.
Amazon Linux images suitable for VMware, Virtualbox, and box images for Vagrant ready for download and use.
In part one of this series, I described how to get the basic distribution copied down from AWS to a local partition within a virtualized environment. For part two of this series, I described putting a working kernel and kernel tool building environment on the virtual disk created during part 1, and boot it up for the first time. You […]
Part 2 of a series of posts continuing the steps required to get a bootable instance of Amazon Linux locally via VMware Fusion.
Part 1 of a series of posts on how to get Amazon Linux out of EC2 and onto your local system so you can use Vagrant to run automation tests against.
Run up Chef tests against an Amazon Linux image via Vagrant (both VMware Fusion/ Workstation, and Virtualbox instances) without having to wait and pay for EC2 instances to launch and be destroyed.
In under 10 minutes, I built a very small, authoritative DNS server. It is not large as it handles only about 80 domains and does not offer recursive services. This is the smallest instance available from Google: 1 vCPU core 600 MiB RAM 10 GiB persistent storage (boot disk) I estimate my price per month to run this dedicated DNS server at […]
Converting from Apache to nginx was far easier than I ever imagined. My conversion took under 30 minutes and I had less than 30 seconds of downtime while I fired up the new daemons.
Straight forward scripting to add port groups to an existing vSwitch including setting VLAN assignments and adding vmkernel ports. This makes for an easy transition to Virtual Distributed Switch from VMware using the vSphere client (or new web interface).