NAS

Expand the Storage Pool Capacity of your Synology NAS

NAS Juan Mulford - March 6, 2021

In this guide, we will expand a Synology NAS storage pool. If you have empty drive slots on your NAS, you install additional drives and add them to an existing storage pool to increase your NAS capacity and performance.

Synology DiskStation DS1520+ Overview and DSM Initial Setup Guide

NAS Juan Mulford - February 24, 2021

Installing a Synology NAS is easier than you can imagine. In this article, I will show you how to set up and install a Synology NAS for the first time. Also, how to use its dedicated operating system DiskStation Manager (DSM) and perform basic configurations.

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Raspberry Pi OS in a Virtual Machine with VMware

Juan Mulford - November 13, 2020 4

Although the Raspberry Pi OS is designed and optimized for the Raspberry Pi module, it is possible to test and use it without its hardware, with VMware. This solution can be useful if you are a developer (or just a curious guy) and don't have a Raspberry Pi module with you

Unable to delete an "inaccessible" datastore

Juan Mulford - March 8, 2019 7

I was switching my storage array, so I migrated the VMs from that old datastore/storage to a new datastore/storage. The old datastore was shared by 3 ESXi hosts, no cluster. After migrating the VMs and unmount/delete the datastore, it was still presented in two of the ESXi hosts and was marked as inaccessible.

This is not a valid source path / URL - SourceTree and Gitlab

Juan Mulford - February 29, 2020 1

I have been working on a project with a friend who set up a repository in Gitlab but even though I was able to view all projects on it, I couldn’t really join the repository. I was using SourceTree and Gitlab.

How to export a Virtual Machine using the VMware OVF Tool

Juan Mulford - April 5, 2020 9

The VMware OVF Tool is implemented by VMware for easily importing and exporting virtual machines in Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard format. Here, I want to show you how to download and install it, and then how to use it from a Windows machine.

Couldn't load private key - Putty key format too new

Juan Mulford - December 1, 2021 5

couldn't load private key - Putty key format too new.” This issue happens when you use PuTTygen to generate or convert to a ppk key. Here is how to fix it.