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It is 100% possible to hot-swap with Intel RAID when it is enabled and configure with an array of drives. As in, just pull the drive and put a new drive in while the OS is still running. There is … Continue reading →

Step-by-step guide Mark the drive as failed 1$ sudo mdadm –manage /dev/md0 –fail /dev/sdb1 Remove the drive from the array 1$ sudo mdadm –manage /dev/md0 –remove /dev/sdb1 View the mdadm status 1$ cat /proc/mdstat If you prefer to shut down … Continue reading →

LXD makes it easy to move containers around. LXD expects the new host to be completely setup along with the resources the guest requires or the copy will not proceed.

This error happens usually when the /boot folder is full and grub doesn’t update/install properly when the system is updated. One way to fix this is to boot with a Live USB image, mount the boot drive, and update/install grub … Continue reading →

Windows 10 setup does *not* work via PXE ram disk when the iso is directly loaded. A Pre-Environment must be loaded first for to load setup from a mapped network share where the iso image has been dumped. This guide … Continue reading →

Intel line of server motherboards have iKVM built-in but it must be enabled with a separate licensing module that plugs into the motherboard. I got one recently and was curious as to how this “license” works. For the AXXRMM4LITE module, … Continue reading →

The built-in mail option seems to work out of the box, but every post seems to suggest using a script to trigger internal mail binaries for mail notifications. Those require extra dependencies and configuration. With SendGrid and the REST API, … Continue reading →

The oracle-java9-installer, as of writing, has an old URL that doesn’t redirect properly to the right URL, which causes the installer to fail when it tries to download the binaries. Setting up oracle-java9-installer (9b162-1~webupd8~0) … Using wget settings from /var/cache/oracle-jdk9-installer/wgetrc … Continue reading →

As of writing (2017-04-06), there is no native tooling to resize a fixed-size VDI. Those on the internet saying they can resize one are misinformed. You will get this error message: Progress state: VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED VBoxManage.exe: error: Resize medium operation for this … Continue reading →