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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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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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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 Cluster in a Box

By Tom Southerland Posted on April 22, 2014 Posted in Solaris, Solaris Cluster, Technology, Virtualization 3 Comments Tagged with Cluster, Solaris, virtualbox, virtualization

A VirtualBox Solaris Cluster complete with shared storage and quorum disk! Host System The host system is a Mac running 10.8: Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge 3.5GHz 16Gb RAM GeForce GTX 470 1280M At the time of this article, I’m …

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VirtualBox Serial Port Console on Solaris 10

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

If you’re like me and prefer the command line to the GUI, here’s a trick and script to help you manage your Solaris VMs. Enable a serial port for the VM. Enable Port 1 Port Number COM1 Port Mode: Host Pipe …

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Clone a VirtualBox Disk

By Tom Southerland Posted on April 22, 2014 Posted in Technology, Virtualization No Comments Tagged with Administration, v, virtualbox, virtualization

Get a list of drives first VBoxManage list hdds Clone the desired drive using the UUID: VBoxManage clonehd 3ce7cfe9-845d-4358-9120-7a46390bcf8c ~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/newname   It's nice to share…LinkedinFacebookTwitteremail

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