I originally put up a post about two pieces of software that just plain make life easier when you’re sitting in front of a computer all day, but the list ended up growing. While I love both Google Chrome and WikidPad, the original topics of this post, I found that I wanted to list a [...]
This little tidbit from The Lone Sysadmin saved our bacon this morning: if you’re finding it impossible to migrate a VM off of a host because of a stuck VMTools installation process, there’s a quick way to kill this process off via the command line to get things moving along. First, you need to know [...]
If you end up using VMware’s VI Client to connect to multiple vCenter servers or ESX/ESXi hosts, you might find yourself a little annoyed at how many saved connections show up when you go to launch a new connection. This becomes ever more annoying when you’re connecting to multiple servers named somewhat the same as [...]
So I’ve been restoring some Windows servers from NetApp snapshots today, specifically single hard disks that had been having problems (long story involving Windows problems, etc). I found this pretty easy to do once I got the syntax down – basically, all I was looking to do was to restore the C: of a server, [...]
It’s good to see Lifehacker focusing on backup tools. After literally years of struggling with backing up various computers and laptops I’ve owned over the years, and having learned my disaster-recovery lesson the hard way when I lost the hard drive on my desktop in 1996 or something, I’ve recently settled into a very cozy [...]