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Use Console to Connect ESX to a NAS

UPDATED 12/5/2009 to include vSphere commands.
This is a quick note, mostly to help remind me and hopefully help someone else out.
You can use standard Linux commands to connect an ESX host to a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device.  You can use a NAS to store things like ISO’s and backups.  I have many gig’s of [...]

Use Console to Connect ESX to a NAS

This is a quick note, mostly to help remind me and hopefully help someone else out.
You can use standard Linux commands to connect an ESX host to a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device.  You can use a NAS to store things like ISO’s and backups.  I have many gig’s of ISO’s and I really don’t [...]

YUM Updates Failing for Linux

This is just a quick note to maybe help someone not have to endure the frustration I had over a few hours of last week trying to figure out why my Linux host was failing to download packages.  I kept getting ‘header incomplete’ errors, and ‘there are no more mirrors to try’.
Unfortunately, this is a [...]

Groundwork Open Source Monitoring

 A few years ago, I wanted to try out a free network and system monitoring package so I decided to download and try to setup Nagios.  Since I’m no Linux guru, though working with Linux has started to change lately, it took me quite a while to get Nagios setup and configured.  After doing so, [...]

Configuring Wordpress automatic upgrades and updates

This is quick note on setting up auto-updates / downloads for Wordpress builds that are being self-hosted.
I had the issue of being constantly asked for FTP information, even after I set up an FTP server.
I had trouble finding anything on the Internet that discussed issues with the Wordpress auto-updates and downloads directly from the environment [...]

Turnkey Linux Wordpress Appliance

Just a few days ago, after checking out what my friend Bobby Shea had done with his blog, decided to create a new blog.  More for the fun and personal stuff than this tech one.  http://stuff.d3planet.com.
Anyway, I always enjoy playing with new technology, especially if something is plug-and-play, so I decided to download the Turnkey [...]