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Submitted by mike on Sun, 2010-05-23 01:021zero1.net runs on Ubuntu Linux using the Drupal CMS system.
vSphere and the Iomega ix2-200d
Submitted by mike on Tue, 2010-05-11 01:04I picked up an Iomega ix2-200d a couple of months back to use in place of my
Hard drive crash during P2V conversion ends happily, eventually.
Submitted by mike on Fri, 2010-03-12 16:59I was doing a P2V conversion of my laptop many months ago, a Dell D800, into an ESX 3.5 virtual machine. The drive was 60GB was partitioned into two logical drives and all seemed to be going well.
At about 95% of completion the laptop blue-screened. When I rebooted it, the drive would not recognize.
I tried many different boot CD’s to fix boot sectors; retry a Windows XP install, no go! I even put it in an external USB case and tried just to access the data. When I did that I could hear that famous *clicking* and resetting sound. Not good. The drive was toast.
How to install VMware tools for Turnkey Linux Ubuntu Appliances like Drupal
Submitted by mike on Thu, 2010-03-04 04:13Virtual Lefthand cluster within a physical vSphere 4 SANMelody cluster
Submitted by mike on Mon, 2010-02-22 01:44I set up a test environment way back to be able to test the higher-end features of VMware vSphere 4 as well as ESX 3.5.

