Aligning Our Partitions

In this document we will see something old but that we have never talked about and we still find it misconfigured in clients when it comes to auditing the systems; when you have a virtual server that requires high performance at the disk level, we must check that the partitions are correctly aligned!

Recovering a Deleted VMFS Partition

In this document we will see how to recover the contents of a deleted VMFS partition, In this document we will simulate that an 'administrator’ has deleted a VMFS volume from the disk manager in Windows because it had the LUN presented to the vCenter server where they perform backups using VCB, I had it presented in writing mode and not only with reading, so it can be a good example 🙂

Extending System Partition After a .vmdk Extension – DELL Extpart Tool.

Today they have discovered a tool that without a doubt, It is going to solve many headaches for those of us who are day to day with virtualized environments. This is the DELL tool, EXTPART. Although at first glance, it seems that it will allow us to do operations with Linux EXT partitions (I say it by the name), what it will allow us to do is increase the size of the system partition of a VM, as long as, Let's have room without winning from the Vmdk (Tratariendo de máquina VMware), and best of all, Hot!!!