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Roll Your Own Thunderbolt 3 External SSD

By Tom Southerland Posted on August 17, 2020 Posted in Mac, Technology, Virtualization No Comments

I recently received a 13″ MacBook Pro with an internal 512GB SSD. I support a lot of different products and need to virtualize many different environments to do so. Naturally, 512GB fills up pretty fast when creating a bunch of …

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Cleaning up after KernSafe Trial

By Tom Southerland Posted on March 19, 2020 Posted in Mac, Technology, Uncategorized 1 Comment

I’ve recently been evaluating iSCSI target drivers on my Mac. I tried several and I won’t bore you with those details but one, iSCSI Initiator X from KernSafe, did cause some issues following the evaluation. I wanted to capture the …

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Solaris 11 Serial Console

By Tom Southerland Posted on August 26, 2017 Posted in Mac, Solaris, Technology, Virtualization No Comments

I am providing support for Solaris Cluster again and have am now on a Mac (Hacintosh) using Vmware Fusion for my virtualization. Before you proceed with this tutorial, you must first install socat on the Mac as it is used to …

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Linksys (NOTSO) Smart Wi-Fi

By Tom Southerland Posted on December 6, 2016 Posted in Networking, Technology No Comments Tagged with EA9500, Linksys, Network, WIFI

I recently had to upgrade our home network wifi to accommodate the growing number of smart devices needing network access. It's nice to share…LinkedinFacebookTwitteremail

Using NFS for a Time Machine disk.

By Tom Southerland Posted on September 4, 2015 Posted in linux, Mac No Comments

This is a compilation of several posts I found while researching this procedure and I wanted to save the steps. I’m sure I’ll need them again. My “MAC” is running 10.10.5 and the NFS server is Ubuntu Linux 14.04 with …

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Installing systemtap on CentOS 7

By Tom Southerland Posted on May 25, 2015 Posted in linux, Technology, Virtualization No Comments

I recently had the need to install systemtap on one of my CentOS 7 VMs and the process isn’t as straight forward as it should be. It seems not all packages needed are built for all revisions of the kernel. After …

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Installing Oracle 12c on CentOS 7

By Tom Southerland Posted on February 1, 2015 Posted in linux, Technology, Virtualization No Comments

I wanted to capture the changes which need to be done to a fresh centos7 server install to support Oracle 12C. The server was installed with Basic Server using a 4GB swap device but before we can start the Oracle …

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FreeBSD / FreeNAS Clone Jail

By Tom Southerland Posted on April 22, 2014 Posted in BSD, Technology, Virtualization 1 Comment Tagged with FreeBSD, FreeNAS, Jail, virtualization, Warden

I recently had the need to update my shiny new FreeBSD jailed server because I wanted to migrate to WordPress. I didn’t want to bring down the existing server while I did the install and converted my content so I …

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Solaris 11.1 Install with metadb slice

By Tom Southerland Posted on April 22, 2014 Posted in Solaris, Technology No Comments Tagged with Solaris, SVM, ZFS

If you need to a Solaris 11.x install which will use Solaris Volume Manger and want the metadbs on the boot disk, here’s a procedure to get the job done. It's nice to share…LinkedinFacebookTwitteremail

Solaris 11 Tips

By Tom Southerland Posted on April 22, 2014 Posted in Solaris, Technology No Comments Tagged with Administration, Solaris

Static IP Solaris 11 network stack is using crossbow so network administration is completely different now. In order to switch from DHCP to a static IP, we need to do the following: # netadm enable -p ncp DefaultFixed # ipadm …

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