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Windows Home Server 2011 RC – Installing StableBit DrivePool Beta Build 569
In my previous post I installed Windows Home Server (WHS) 2011 RC in a VMware virtual machine on ESXi (4.1). The StableBit DrivePool Add-In is a Drive Extender (DE) replacement for WHS 2011 with the...
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Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid x86 – Segmentation Fault After Update On VMware ESXi 4.1
` I have been experiencing this problem for a while with Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid 32-bit (running open-vm-tools) in VMware ESXi 4.1 (but hadn’t got round to looking into it). During the installation of...
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Ubuntu Server – Installing and Configuring Zentyal & OpenVPN
Zentyal (formerly eBox) is an Ubuntu based small business server with a vast amount of functionality – including an OpenVPN server. Of course you can install OpenVPN without installing Zentyal, but...
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Installing FreeNAS 8 on VMware vSphere (ESXi)
FreeNAS is an Open Source Storage Platform and version 8 benefits not only from a complete rewrite – it also boats a new web interface and support for the ZFS filesystem. It is also worth mentioning...
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Installing Amahi 6.1 Express on VMware vSphere 4.x
Today an email announcing the release of the Express CD v1.0 for Amahi 6.1 landed in my mailbox. The Express CD is billed as the the shortest, fastest, easiest way to install Amahi – and turn your PC...
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Ubuntu Server – Upgrading VIMP (Community Edition) From 2.0.6 to 2.1.1
ViMP (a video & social media Content Management System) recently released version 2.1.1 (which includes support for mobile devices). I had previously installed version 2.0.6 (as a virtual machine...
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Installing Nexenta Core Platform 3.0.1 With Nappit on VMware vSphere 4.x
I have been mulling over what exactly the eventual replacement for my Windows Home Server might be one day – and Nexenta is something that I have been pondering for a while. The Nexenta Core Platform...
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How To Create A Virtual Floppy For VMware vSphere
Last week I needed to create a virtual floppy disk to load drivers for a Windows XP Virtual Machine (VM) during the boot process. This is not a scenario that crops up too often – but in this case I...
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xbmc – 100% CPU Usage in VMware vSphere 4.x
I installed xbmc (eden) in VMware vSphere this evening to try to learn how to configure my HDHomeRun, so that I can record TV shows on my HTPC. I found however that xbmc.bin was using almost 100% CPU...
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Windows 7 – TV Archive Does Not Have Permissions to Access This Folder
I recently installed Windows 7 in a virtual machine on VMware vSphere so that I could start recording TV shows again with my HDHomerun. Everything was working fine and all of a sudden I noticed that my...
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Ubuntu Server – Unattended Installation (Custom CD)
I’ve lost count of the number of times that I have installed Ubuntu Server on my VMware vSphere box – so I finally looked in to performing an unattended install. I could have setup DHCP and TFTP...
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Ubuntu Server – Installing Tiny Tiny RSS
I have been using Gregarius as my web-based RSS aggregator for quite some time now but have wanted to try Tiny Tiny RSS for a while. Now that WebUpd8 have created a PPA (Personal Package Archives) for...
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2013 Potential Hardware for vSphere Home Nanolab and NAS Refresh
My current VMware vSphere white-box will be 5 years old in August. It has an AMD Athlon X2 BE-2400 Brisbane @2.3GHz and 8Gb of RAM – and these days 8Gb of RAM is just not enough. The hardware for my...
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Installing VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5 on an Intel (Haswell) NUC (D34010WYH1)
My vSphere hardware has long been due an update and I have finally got my hands on an Intel NUC ! Here is my (completely un-supported) parts list: Intel Haswell i3-4010U NUC D34010WYH1 16GB (8x2GB)...
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VMware vSphere 5.5 – Call “HostStorageSystem.ComputeDiskPartitionInfo” for...
I recently installed VMware vSphere 5.5 on my Intel (Haswell) NUC (D34010WYH1). Today I got the following error when I tried to create a VMFS 5 datastore on the SATA hard drive that I installed in my...
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Ubuntu Server 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) – Quick MediaDrop Installation
MediaDrop is a open source online video platform for managing and delivering video, audio and podcasts. Sadly I found the official documentation to be lacking and had to cross reference it with other...
View ArticleInstalling LibreELEC Kodi in a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine
I tried a couple of methods of installing LibreELEC in a VMware virtual machine before finding the solution. The first was to simply pass through a Jump drive with a bootable image to the virtual...
View ArticleVMware vSphere – Deploy .ovf Error:vim.fault.FileNotFound
I recently upgraded my vSphere host from vSphere 5.5 to 7.0. When I tried to deploy one of my .ovf backups I experienced the following error: This error means that the .ovf still has an .iso image...
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