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I wanted to use the command line to Secure Wipe a hard drive in OpenMediaVault. I used the built in shred command, details are available at the link below: https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/coreutils/shred.1.en.html For example, I like to use the following combination (based … Continue reading →

When attempting to delete a shared folder with OpenMediaVault, I received the following error (after clicking show details): Error #0: OMV\ExecException: Failed to execute command ‘export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin; export LANG=C.UTF-8; rm -f -r ‘/srv/dev-disk-by-label-EXMPLE/’ 2>&1′ with exit code ‘1’: rm: cannot … Continue reading →

I had created an NFS share on OpenMediaVault, named EXAMPLE, with the following ACL permissions: Owner: root, read/write/execute Group: users, None Others: None When trying to mount the share (EXAMPLE) in ESXi,  the following error would occur: Failed to mount … Continue reading →

Stop SQLExpress service Run Command Prompt with administrator rights Find your install folder, for example C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL12.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\Binn Start SQL Express in single-user mode: sqlservr.exe -sSQLEXPRESS -m”SQLCMD” -c Open another Command Prompt window (with administrator rights) and connect to … Continue reading →

For a storage upgrade, I swapped out two HBAs, an SAS9341-8i (SAS3) and a Dell PERC H310 (SAS2).  The 9341 was changed to a 9300-8i and the PERC was replaced with another 9300-8i. The storage was acting as iSCSI targets … Continue reading →

After upgrading to PHP 8.0 and installing phpmyadmin using the official PPA, phpmyadmin would result in a blank page instead of a login.  The apache2 error.log had several lines of : Got error ‘PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Array and … Continue reading →

After upgrading to 7.0 the system datastore was missing (attached via SATA).  Related to this article https://jc-lan.org/2017/02/01/poor-performance-in-esxi-6-5-with-jetway-jnf9g-qm77/ I had previously disabled the built in AHCI driver of ESXi due to poor performance.  Enabling it again followed by a reboot of … Continue reading →

This guide is for upgrading ESXi via the command line. For this guide I upgraded from 6.7.0 Update 3 (Build 16075168) to 7.0.0 (Build 15843807) Steps: Set firewall esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient Search for the … Continue reading →

One liner via PowerShell (run as administrator) Change Ethernet 1 as appropriate based on what is shown in Network and Sharing Center Set-NetConnectionProfile -InterfaceAlias “Ethernet 1” -NetworkCategory Private Note: you can also use this command to pull all information Get-NetConnectionProfile … Continue reading →

Apple has steps to create a bootable USB (linked below), but not an ISO file. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372 There are also several methods to create an ISO, such as colt2’s method linked below. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/el-capitan-bootable-dvd.1923931/post-22048516 The steps in this guide are what I … Continue reading →