profile for Hannel on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&A sites

Project Work Hours

Sat & Sun 6am - 9am

Subscribe via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Archives

Virtualization

Finally got time to update my one of my servers. 7 years ago, I made a 468.07 investment for my first dedicated home lab server (aka Goliath) and has made me the man I am today ?.  This weekend provided some much-needed love to server and did some upgrades to accommodate new requirements and keep it going.

Goliath
  • Updated Drives
  • Added additional GPU
  • Replace fans
  • Install VMWare ESXi

Services on Goliath had already been moved to a backup system (See Tweet), below are info on work done this weekend.

Continue reading

This script does delete disks which means there is a potential for data loss use at your own risk.

Server Clean Up -Azure

This article covers deleting an Azure virtual machine and all its unique resources using my ‘home cooked’ script. The script will delete virtual machine, public IP of the virtual machine, Network interface of the virtual machine and disks both OS and any data-disks attached if option selected. GitHub link to script used in video below.

dv1-series-azure-02-create-and-deploy-from-image

Continue reading

Deploying Virtual Machine from Image -Azure

This article covers deploying an Azure virtual machine from an existing Azure v2 virtual machine (VM) image using PowerShell.  As of time of this article, deploying from an image in the resource model can only be done using PowerShell. Video covers using my ‘home cooked’ script to create a virtual machine from an Azure Virtual Machine image, GitHub link to script used in video below.

dv1-series-azure-02-create-and-deploy-from-image

Continue reading

Creating Virtual Machine Image -Azure

This article cover creating an Azure virtual machine image from an existing Azure v2 virtual machine (VM) using PowerShell.  As of time of this article, imaging in the resource model can only be done using PowerShell. Video and script used in video below.

dv1-series-azure-02-create-and-deploy-from-image

Continue reading