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LVM, Thin Provisioning, and Monitoring Storage Use: A Case Study

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Servers • 8 min read

LVM, Thin Provisioning, and Monitoring Storage Use: A Case Study

If you're not monitoring your server's storage use, it can quickly run away from you. Today's guide shows you how to keep an eye on things with an introduction to LVM thin provisions and monitoring disk use with Diskover, lvs, and Grafana utilities.…

TorqueWrench • 10 Mar 2020

How to Monitor Disk Usage and Growth with Diskover

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Servers • 8 min read

How to Monitor Disk Usage and Growth with Diskover

Monitoring server storage should be part of every data center monitoring procedure. Learn how to monitor and analyze server storage use and growth with Diskover.…

TorqueWrench • 04 Feb 2020

Expand Your Proxmox Storage: A Guide to Adding CIFS (SMB) Storage to Proxmox

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Proxmox • 7 min read

Expand Your Proxmox Storage: A Guide to Adding CIFS (SMB) Storage to Proxmox

Free up valuable local storage on your Proxmox server while simultaneously adding to your virtualization server's storage capacity. In this guide, we'll learn how to add CIFS storage (SMB/Samba shares) to Proxmox.…

TorqueWrench • 10 Jan 2020

Configuring VLANs on Proxmox- An Introductory Guide

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Proxmox • 6 min read

Configuring VLANs on Proxmox- An Introductory Guide

An introductory guide to VLAN configuration on a Proxmox virtualization server so that you can group related VMs onto their own subnet.…

TorqueWrench • 02 Nov 2019

How to Add a Hard Disk to an ESXi Virtual Machine

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Virtualization • 6 min read

How to Add a Hard Disk to an ESXi Virtual Machine

How to add an additional hard disk to an ESXi virtual machine (VM) via the web client and command line (esxcli/vmkfstools) without vSphere.…

TorqueWrench • 22 Aug 2019