To Install MegaRAID Storage Manager you will need to download the software from the Broadcom site (it has had many names in the past lsi/avago....)

Before starting make sure your sytem is upto date install all updates as required

apt update && apt upgrade

You will need to install the alien pa...

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Recently I have been asked by a number of people about converting from Hyper-V to other formats, now this is not that complicated but there is a process which can help to get it right first time without the need for all the stress.

Converting Images To work With Proxmox

There are a few simple ru...

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In some cases you will need to install a specific version of a package, this may be for specific software requirements or to perform incrimental upgrade for a package.

To start off with you will want to check which version of the package you have installed aready with the apt-show-versions {packa...

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Recently a few peoiple have asked about backing up and copying data from or to a NAS device which has a samba cifs share in many new devices they have built in support copying data but some don't have this option and in some cases it's not aplicable to use the built in software. This would also be a...

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What is Swappiness

Swappiness has a value between 1 and 100 this controls how your system prioratises ram and swap usage, if you are unsure of what swap is then you may want to google this a bit but in short ram is the physical memory modules (ram) and swap is memory on your hard drive/ssd, swap i...

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