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Computers
Boot ESXi Virtual Machine From Passthrough USB
Recently, in playing around with the home lab environment, I had the need to boot a virtual machine from a USB thumbdrive that was attached to one of my ESXi hosts in the lab. Using a devie that is attached…
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home lab
How to flash Avago LSI RAID controller firmware with boot disk
In working on provisioning a new Supermicro lab server that is outfitted with an Avago LSI 9380-4i4e SAS RAID controller, one of the first tasks I wanted to complete was flashing the firmware to the latest version. There are a…
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Virtualization
Windows 10 ADK USB boot with VMware cold clone 3.03
So this is probably a really weird combination of old and new. The other day I was working to P2V an old domain controller as is without dcproming down and then back in. Best practice is to dcpromo a DC…