I frequently use tape devices, libraries and drives, in my daily course of work. Unfortunately it isn’t possible to have every type of device in a lab or in many cases any physical devices available for testing, etc. When it comes to VTLs (Virtual Tape Libraries) there are a handful of vendors and options ranging from thousands of… Read More »
A little bit of a wet dream, true Linux BASH on Windows?? It just can’t be.. Well it is with the introduction of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, and SLES are available today in the Insider Preview builds of Windows 10. With WSL coming out of Beta in the upcoming Fall Creators Update release, hopefully… Read More »
Recently to ease deployment of VTL resources in lab environments I built a pre-configured VM containing the mhVTL and the WebUI (GUI) with iSCSI support. I figured I could share that VM here for the community. The resulting OVA file has been tested successfully with VMware Fusion, Workstation, and Oracle Virtual Box. The VM is based on CentOS… Read More »
X forwarding of Unix/Linux applications to OS X can be quite frustrating or easy depending on what steps are followed. Here is a straight forward guide to the process: Download the XQuartz X-Windows manager for OS X (macOS). Originally included in OS X releases 10.5 through 10.7 the latest (and recommended) version is now available via the project… Read More »
I recently needed to setup a new Windows jump server¹ for accessing and managing servers and clients in a remote environment. As I started to configure applications on the host I quickly realized I have a default set of applications I use for management tasks. While this list driven somewhat by need and somewhat by personal preference these… Read More »
Following on the steps outlined in mhVTL on CentOS to install the mhVTL, this guide adds the web based mhVTL-GUI into the mix. Note for the example below I am using a CentOS 6.7 minimal installation as CentOS or RHEL 7.x iSCSI has changed significantly enough not to work with the GUI. Original developement by Nia on the… Read More »
Well the Raspberry Pi 3 went on sale today in Australia and I was lucky enough to pick one up. Key improvements over the Pi 2: Broadcom BCM2837 chipset running at 1.2 GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 802.11 b/g/n Wireless LAN Bluetooth 4.1 (Classic & Low Energy) Dual core Videocore IV® Multimedia co-processor microUSB connector for 2.5 A… Read More »
Updated on 30-Mar-2017 Ever need to know what OS X Build correlates to which version? The simplest way to find out what version your running is in the Terminal with the command sw_vers. Version Build macOS Sierra 10.12.4 16E195 10.12.3 16D32 10.12.2 16C67 10.12.1 16B2555 or 16B2557 10.12 16A323 OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 15G31 10.11.5 15F34 10.11.4… Read More »
Helpful command equivalents between UNIX/Linux and Windows/DOS. UNIX or Bash Command DOS Command Action ls -l (or use ls -lF)(-a all files) DIR List directory contents df -k (Space remaining on filesystem) ls -tr DIR *.* /o-d List directory contents by reverse time of modification/creation. ls -ls DIR *.* /v /os List files and size ls -R DIR… Read More »
As strange as it may seem, I have really come to like and use unix based tools in my day to day tasks. It kills me that there are not certain native CLI based apps in Windows. It would be impossible to list the number of times I have tried to ls instead of dir. Thus this little… Read More »
What service pack, release, or build number are you at? A question I commonly ask system admins, and it is surprising how many don’t know the answer. Here are the simplest methods of getting the OS build information. GUI winver.exe Command Prompt ver PowerShell PS C:\> [System.Environment]::OSVersion.Version Table of Windows Builds Operating System Version Number Windows Server 2016… Read More »