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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 No Comments

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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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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Using ZFS in OS X

By Tom Southerland Posted on April 22, 2014 Posted in Mac, Technology 3 Comments

I recently decided to try out the OpenZFS implementation of ZFS on my mac desktop and so far, I’m impressed. In this post, I’ll cover some of the issues encountered along the way. Let me start by describing my configuration. My desktop …

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Creating a Bootable USB Stick

By Tom Southerland Posted on April 22, 2014 Posted in Mac, Technology No Comments

Open Disk Utility and make sure any volumes on the USB stick (not the disk) are unmounted. Use dd select the target disk: dd if=/path/to/your/downloaded.img of=/dev/disk5 bs=1024 It's nice to share…LinkedinFacebookTwitteremail

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Burn ISO Image

By Tom Southerland Posted on April 22, 2014 Posted in Mac, Technology No Comments

My desktop system is a Mac and I use VMware Fusion to test operating systems and cluster configurations.  Oracle sometimes delivers the Oracle Solaris Cluster software in a tarball so here’s how to burn it to an ISO image which can …

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