While working for a client I got into a situation where I was unable to remove a snapshot from a VM. This was quite annoying because the error message that was shown didn’t give me that much information. In this blog, I’ll explain the procedure that got me in this situation and what I did…
Now that the lab is up for a few months I noticed that I already installed quite a few Debian Linux VMs. Debian Linux is the default OS that I use when I just want a lightweight server to run some application as a learning/play environment. These VMs run quite autonomous so I don’t often…
In the blog about “New Hardware” I’ve talked about my old server running Citrix XenServer. On the new servers I changed to VMware ESXi, but why did I switch vendor? First off: what do Citrix and VMware even do? Both Citrix XenServer and VMware ESXi are what we call a “hypervisor”. A hypervisor is software…
On the 24th of September 2017, I’ve placed a single Dell PowerEdge R710 in the XS4ALL datacentre in Amsterdam. Now, three years later, it finally came to an upgrade. I already bought two newer servers (two Dell PowerEdge R720’s) and had them laying around since the end of 2017. Sadly, I never found the money…
