How to know what ESX version is running on your VM

This article describes how to discover the ESX version when we have only access to the VM guest. When troubleshooting issues, I sometimes need to know the ESX version when my VM’s are running, but in the classic scenario where we don’t have any type of privileges, it is pretty hard to get that information. […]

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Compiling the Linux Kernel, the SUSE way

How to compile the kernel manually, SUSE style!

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Running "crash" to analyze dump data on SLES11

Crash is a powerful tool that will analyze core dumps after crashing, to help you with troubleshooting or forensics analysis. Happy debugging!

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Monitoring TCP connections easier and faster in SLES

Parsing netstat output has always been a pain because of the large amount of data that is available. Sometimes I need some information more than others, but I almost always want to quickly see the total number and type of connection I have. Here’s how I do it.

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