Month: March 2021

Adding Your OVH Backup Space via NFS (Bare Metal Servers)

1) Allow the relevant IP or IP Blocks to have NFS access. Do this through your control panel. 2) Find the actual name of the NFS export on the backup server: showmount -e [theftpserver.ovh.net] 3) Create the mountpoint: mkdir /backup 4) Mount to it: mount -t nfs -o _netdev,mountproto=tcp [server]:[expert path from 2] /backup 5) … [Read more…]

ESXi 6 Create Datastore on boot

I used this article, except that I used the vmkfstools -C vmfs6 -S BootDS command with the existing partition :3 (type vmfs) https://darkglade.com/2019/07/05/building-a-datastore-on-your-esxi-boot-usb/ Also, how to license: https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi6 Permanently Setting The Hostname hostnamectl set-hostname