SHIFT-WIKI - Sjoerd Hooft's InFormation Technology
This WIKI is my personal documentation blog. Please enjoy it and feel free to reach out through blue sky if you have a question, remark, improvement or observation. See below for the latest additions, or use the search or tags to browse for content.
AIX Rsync
Summary: ALthough AIX is by now on version 7.3 I find these old pages so fascinating I decided to keep them. On this page I'll show you how to work with rsync (remote sync is a utility for transferring and synchronizing files between a computer and a storage drive and across networked computers) on AIX. This page is for AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1.
Date: Between 2010-2013
Refactor: 21 December 2024: Checked formatting.
Active Directory Domain Controller in Azure
Summary: How to setup an Active Directory Domain Controller in Azure.
Date: Around 2017
Refactor: 20 February 2025: Checked links and formatting.
After starting with Getting Started With Azure you are now ready for creating your first VM in Azure and of course we'll start with a Domain Controller. I need this for a later tutorial so it's as good as any and it will touch a lot of different concepts and useful information.
The overall process consists of a few steps:
- Create the Virtual Network, Resource Group and the Storage Account
- Create the Virtual Machine
- Install the Domain Controller
Note that this page continues from Getting Started With Azure and assumes your Azure subscription is entirely empty and never used. For this tutorial we'll use the MSDN subscription as it has a higher credit.
VMWare Update Manager
Summary: How to setup and configure VMware Update Manager.
Date: Around 2010
Refactor: 1 May 2025: Checked links and formatting.
VMware DataStore
Summary: How to manually create a vmware datastore.
Date: Around 2015
Refactor: 1 May 2025: Checked links and formatting.
This is a short how to on creating a data store in VMware ESX. It is a follow-up on this story. We're going to create a VMware store out of the created LUN. All of the steps are performed with the VMware infrastructure client.