Larry Smith Jr.

Doing my thang with #automation #DevOps and cloudy things! Providing hopefully valuable content for others to consume easily and also learn from.

Welcome to vSphere-land! » All about the UNMAP command in vSphere

July 22, 2012 less than 1 minute read

Here is some great info on the issues with SCSI UNMAP commands in ESXi5. I have personally ran into this issue several months ago and disabled it from the command line as explained in this post below.

Welcome to vSphere-land! » All about the UNMAP command in vSphere.

Share on

Twitter Facebook LinkedIn

Searching for the Source(s) of Truth in Holistic Automation

July 1, 2024
9 minute read

The Source of Truth (SoT) concept has become a cornerstone for achieving holistic automation in the ever-evolving IT and network management landscape. As org...

Transforming IT Operations - The Rise of Infrastructure Automation Consulting

June 29, 2024
6 minute read

As IT environments grow in complexity and scale, efficiently managing these intricate systems has become a critical challenge for many businesses. This is wh...

NFD24 - DriveNets

March 2, 2021
2 minute read

Recently I had the privilege to attend NFD 24 in which DriveNets presented. I had never heard of them until this event. Which I am shaming myself for because...

Ubuntu 20.04 - cloud-init Gotchas

August 25, 2020
1 minute read

Recently while working on my latest Packer Templates I ran into an issue with Ubuntu 20.04. The issue was related to cloud-init not being able to grow the ro...