How to Shrink a VMware vSphere Virtual Disk for Windows Server
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Microsoft Oscdimg: Quickly Creating ISO Files from the Command Line
Oscdimg is a command-line utility from Microsoft that can create ISO 9660 and UDF image files from a folder structure….
Mastering Hyper-V Clusters with iSCSI and Multipath I/O (CSV)
While Storage Spaces Direct leverages local disks for software-defined storage as shown in my last post here, many Hyper-V clusters…
Mastering Hyper-V Clusters with Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)
Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) transforms local disks into highly available, software-defined storage for Hyper-V clusters, without the need for a…
Mastering Azure Update Manager – Part 4
In Part 3 we saw how to patch SUSE Linux Enterprise by using the Azure Update Manager and some troubleshooting. Now in…
How to use the Serial Console and Special Administration Console (SAC) for VMware vSphere Windows Virtual Machines
When managing Windows virtual machines in VMware vSphere, mostly we can rely on RDP or vSphere Console for access. But…
Mastering Windows Updates & Microsoft Updates – Part 2
In Part 1 we will see how to master Windows Updates successfully, why they sometimes fail, and what we can do in…
Mastering Windows Updates & Microsoft Updates – Part 1
Behind that simple “Check for updates” button lies a complex system of services, agents, stacks, and rules. In this post,…
Mastering GCP Virtual Machines – Part 3 (Connect to Windows VMs)
In Part 2 we saw the different access methods we can use to connect to our Linux virtual machine instances. Further we saw…
VMware vSphere boot loop when trying to boot from Windows Server 2025 ISO
When trying to install Windows Server 2025 on vSphere, I was running into an known issue which actually requires a…
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