Auto create Nano server for ESXi with Powershell

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I have recently played a little with Microsoft’s up coming Windows 2016 OS. One of the things I find very intriguing about Windows 2016 is Nano Server. It is the possibility to create a small and fast booting version of Windows. Nano server is JeOS (Just Enough OS), meaning that it all you need for the task ahead. Not more deploying 50GB+ servers with lots of features if you only need one. This equals faster boot times, smaller footprint on resources and smaller attack surface. All good things that IT has come to love from the Linux world. The only […]

How to change VMDK geometry

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I recently ran into an issue were I needed to change the geometry of some VMDK files – I will do a seperate blog post on where and why later. For now I will just focus on how to change VMDK geometry. A VMDK is just a file with some descriptional data and the actually binary data of the VMDK. Think of it as a virtual harddisk. It adheres to the same physical characteristics and there for the physical characteristics are also part of a VMDK file. Normally you won’t need to change the geometry of a VMDK – I this case […]