VMWare vSphere ESXi v5.5 Install Errors disk cannot partition

While adding a new disk to an ESX5.5. box it could not finish the partitioning stage and did not add to the Datastores. Apparently ESX does succeed to clean up the Disk from the GUI. NOTE: This procedure will destroy all data on the disk

Preferred Tools on Linux

Might need Epel or other repo For CentOS 6 : yum install epel-release -y yum install net-tools man screen htop vim-enhanced wget iotop iftop sysstat usbutils nfs-utils bind-utils ntp tcpdump telnet tree mlocate zip unzip pciutils git -y For Ubuntu apt-get install -y glances language-pack-en net-tools man screen htop vim wget iotop iftop sysstat usbutils…

Pretty Json in Bash

Simply pipe through python -m json.tool e.g.   curl -u Administrator:kpassword http://172.16.3.136:8091//pools/default | python -m json.tool  

Restoring a bucket in Couchbase

[root@mofo bin]# ./cbrestore /tmp/cbbackup/2015-01-19T220530Z/2015-01-19T220530Z-full/ -u Administrator -ppassword http://mofo.lan:8091 –bucket-source=beer-sample –bucket-destination=DAVID [####################] 100.0% (7303/estimated 7303 msgs) bucket: beer-sample, msgs transferred… : total | last | per sec byte : 2541549 | 2541549 | 3415000.2 done [root@mofo bin]#