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Tip – Fio to precondition a new drive

This morning I was going to run performance test on a SSD drive on one of my servers. SSD are interesting as the first time you write to them they will be significantly faster then initial writes will be.  Below is the fio commands I used to write to the entire drive...

Tip – Script to add USB storage to an ESXi host

This morning I was adding a USB storage device to a Raspberry Pi that I am running ESXi on Arm on.  To add USB storage  to ESXi you need to execute half a dozen commands and do a little math. I created the script to do this automatically as I am going to be testing a...

Tip – Change Camera Source for MS Camera App

This morning I was trying to use the Microsoft Camera App and couldn’t figure out how to change from my laptops built in camera to my web cam (Logitech C902s). MS made the location of this setting the most intuitive/unintuitive I have ever seen – it is the...

Tip – Install PowerCLI from PowerShell

The other day I had to install PowerCLI on a new system. Below is how I did this from PowerShell.   open PowerShell as an administrator and enter the following commands Find-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI -Scope CurrentUser...
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