A couple of weeks ago I had a power failure in my place and unfortunately my vSphere cluster is not on UPS power (got it hooked up to 220v and haven’t had a chance to purchase a 220v UPS yet). Most of my machines came back fine but one of my machines w …

This one is pretty straightforward, but it is a nice little one that I might have to come back to at some point.  There is a really simple workflow for this: 1. Shutdown the EC2 instance 2. Create a snapshot of the volume that you want to expand 3. Cre …