Yet Another IT Professional Blog

This one is a bit obvious and straightforward but I keep seeing in different posts that people who start using github or the curious ones are struggling at the beginning on how to setup their git environment to get started with and this question comes back often. "I can't clone a repo from Git and I receive permission denied (public key) error!" Well, the issue is, like the error message states it, ssh certificates not being setup. In summary, you need to create an ssh certificate for your profile and upload your public key to your github account so

I have a VMDK file that was used for a Windows Server VM as a secondary disk to store only archive files. When I had to scrap the VM and redo it from 0. As any lazy admin would do, I tried to be smart and just reinstall the OS on a different VMDK and copy over the secondary VMDK, rename it, attach it to the virtual machine and off you go… Things are never as easy as you imagine it would be with computer systems J . Here is another adventure of just a renaming simple VMDK file; If VSphere Gui doesn’t let you rename a file, you can do it through a PuttY ssh session;  Open an SSH session to one of your hosts.   Browse to your DataStore which has the VMDK file. cd /vmfs/volumes/DatastoreName/originalname Use the following command to rename a file;    vmkfstools -E "originalname.vmdk" "newname.vmdk" For more information about manipulating files in datastores or using the “vmkfstools”; http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?c...