So a friend of mine mentioned an article that I posted 6 years ago on THWACK about a NetFlow Repeater. I’ve since made some updates to this virtual machine even though the program at it’s heart (samplicator) hasn’t had any updates in the last few years (actually since 2015). Here’s my latest version of that virtual machine.
Virtual Appliance
Converting Linux VHD’s to VHDx
Virtual Hard Drives are the nuts and bolts of Virtualized Servers. This includes Linux Servers, but converting the hard drives provided some interesting findings.
After reading a bunch of the Microsoft documents about running Hyper-V for performance, there’s a big push to move all machines From Generation 1 to Generation 2 and Hard Drives to the VHDX Format.