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OldBooth iPhone App

March 29th, 2009 No comments

OldBooth is a cool new app out in the iPhone App Store.

It allows you to take a photo of yourself and make it look really old and trendy.

Carry on below to look below at the interface and some I have done.

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Flight Control iPhone App Review

March 27th, 2009 No comments

I have bought a few apps on the iPhone but none have ever compelled me to blog about them. This was until I bought a little game for 59p called Flight Control made by a company called Firemint.

I found it in the App Store at number 1 and it had LOADS of good reviews. So I thought what the hell and purchased it.

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VMware ESX – Commit snapshots safely with no data loss.

March 4th, 2009 No comments

If you have been unfortunate enough to find yourself with loads of snapshots in ESX and have snapshots with file sizes bigger than a couple of GB. Then you might be scared to commit them in case of data loss.

You can easily get rid of all the snapshots without any data loss. Using the VMKFS tools you can clone out the hard drives in their current state including snapshots to 1 VMDK. To do this run the following when SSH’d in.

vmkfstools -i harddrivename-000001.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/datastore/ new foldername/new_harddrivename.vmdk

Then it will clone the drive. This may take a couple of hours depending on the size of your drive. Then you just attach the new drive to a newly created VM.

VMware Knowledgebase : 1002458

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VMware ESX – How to find out what VM’s have snapshots / Deltas

March 4th, 2009 No comments

Found out a nifty command which allows you to find out what VM’s have Delta / Snapshot files. Run this when SSH’d in.

find /vmfs/volumes/ -name "*delta*" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 du --human-readable --total

Or for ESXi the command below

find /vmfs/volumes/ -name "*delta*" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 du -h

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