Category Archives: Virtualization

Photon OS 4.0 Grow Filesystem using Logical Volume Management (LVM)

Posted on February 24, 2022 by brian.wuchner

I recently needed to grow the file system on a Linux VM. I remembered writing a post on this before, so I headed here: Unfortunately this previous post assumed a non-LVM disk setup. I needed to increase the size of … Continue reading →

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Horizon Virtual Desktop – Non Persistent Ubuntu 20.04

Posted on December 30, 2021 by brian.wuchner

I recently built a new Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 machine to be used as an instant clone golden image for a Horizon 7.13 environment. I kept some notes on the steps I followed on my desktop, but after seeing a funny … Continue reading →

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Clone Template to new vCenter

Posted on January 18, 2021 by brian.wuchner

On a recent TAM Lab session (TAM Lab 082) I covered several methods for managing vSphere templates. At the end of the presentation we had a brief bonus method that showed using PowerCLI to clone a template to a different … Continue reading →

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Skyline Health Diagnostics custom SSL certificates

Posted on October 17, 2020 by brian.wuchner

I recently read about the new Skyline Health Diagnostics tool. Here is a short quote that captures what this tool is all about. VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics for vSphere is a self-service tool to detect issues using log bundles and … Continue reading →

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Photon OS 3.0 Grow Filesystem

Posted on October 13, 2020 by brian.wuchner

I recently had a need to grow the root filesystem on a Photon OS 3.0 virtual machine. This is something I’ve done before with Ubuntu Linux (blog post here), but Photon OS does not include the growpart command out of … Continue reading →

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