Author Archives: jay

Consolidating my blogs

Posted on January 12, 2011 by jay

After much thinking I have decided to merge my two blogs here at jayakumar.co.in and at www.vmwhere.net  into a single site/blog at www.jayakumar.org. The reason was simple, am lazy and do not want to maintain two sites. Plus after I … Continue reading →

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Improve linux raid rebuild/resync speed

Posted on August 14, 2010 by jay

I have a small NAS box with 6 x 1TB HDD in RAID 6 and 4 x 500GB HDD in RAID 5. Recently thanks to the arrival of my baby girl and a HD handy cam, I was running out … Continue reading →

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PXE boot VMware ESXi 4.1 and Manual Install

Posted on July 20, 2010 by jay

an awesome new feature in the just released ESXi 4.1 is the ability to do PXE boot and script the install using a kick start script. If you looking for information on how to do this see here at billhill’s … Continue reading →

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setting up http proxy for cli

Posted on February 22, 2010 by jay

Okay, I have to google this information every-time I need it, to so am going to blog it, so that I know exactly where to look for it Setting up a proxy from the GUI on you browser or system … Continue reading →

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Installing Silverlight 3 on Hackintosh

Posted on November 5, 2009 by jay

Okay I have always wanted to own a Mac Pro and that wish only grew more after I bought my Mac Book and the Mini for HTPC duties. I like the OS X interface and recently bought Snow Leopard Family … Continue reading →

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