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.
Move data from AWS S3 to Azure Storage Container
Summary: So consider the following use case, you have some data on an AWS S3 bucket which you need to automatically move to another cloud provider, in this case Azure, because of continuity requirements. I decided to use an Azure DevOps pipeline, and azcopy to transfer the files so follow me on how to set this up.
Date: 7 July 2023
Refactor: 15 December 2024: Checked links and formatting.
AIX NIM
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 configure AIX NIM, the network installation manager. This page is for a NIM on AIX 6.1, but will support AIX 5.2, 5.3 and 6.1 as installation targets.
Date: Between 2010-2013
Refactor: 21 December 2024: Checked formatting.
Script: Bash: AIX: Retension Scripts
Summary: A collection of file retention scripts on AIX.
Date: 27 June 2011
Refactor: 22 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
This is a collection of retension scripts I created for different servers.
Resize ESX Virtual Disk
Summary: How to resize a ESX Virtual Disk.
Date: Around 2012
Refactor: 22 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
It's possible to resize disks in a VMware ESX / Infrastructure environment. Increasing is easy, and there's almost no risk on losing data. If you need to make a disk smaller you should always turn the guest off, since there is a serious chance of losing data. To resize disks there are two steps to follow, first resize the actual disk and then you need the guest operating system to recognize the new available disk space.