This post has been a few weekends in the making, but I'm here today with a clean deduplicating ZFS file system in the lab. I started the project with a relatively basic goal, replace my current Debian Linux backup server with something that will maximiz… more »

With continuing problems with the latest iterations of vRanger, I'm starting to look at alternatives that would be feasible to implement within our environment. Since we have the licensing, VMware Data Recovery seems like an obvious candidate. The prob… more »

Quick cheat sheet on how to put ESXi/VMvisor on a USB stick using linux: Download ESXi Open the ISO (Archive Mounter works) Open the image.tgz file Drill down and locate the VMware-VMvisor......dd.bz2 file Open the dd.bz2 file, and ext… more »

The other day I was having datastore naming issues with my lab setup (Datastore Rename (1)). I've since done further testing and I think I been able to eliminate the automatic datastore rename problem. Before I explain how I fixed the problem, I should… more »

I've recently observed a strange issue when adding new datastores to an ESX (3.5) host. In this case, I've seen the issue occur with NFS datastores. What happens is that an NFS export can be added to a host without any problems. When that same NFS exp… more »