Proxmox templates from Linux cloud images (qm + cloud-init)

Five steps: download the cloud image, qm create, import the disk, qm template, clone.

August 19, 2026 · 3 min

Read an HP iLO license key without the web UI

GET https:///xmldata?item=CpqKey and pull the key out of the XML.

August 19, 2026 · 1 min

Replace a disk in a ZFS pool

zpool status gives you a GUID, not /dev/sde. replace -f GUID /dev/disk/by-id/…

August 19, 2026 · 1 min

Send ZFS snapshots to another host (and on to S3)

A zfs send stream is not a tarball. Another pool first, S3 object if you need it.

August 19, 2026 · 2 min

Upgrade HP iLO firmware over SSH

iLO web UI is dead. Serve the .bin over HTTP and load it from the SSH session.

August 19, 2026 · 1 min

ZFS command cheat sheet (pool, compression, cache, log)

The 2 a.m. commands to create, mount, compress, and not destroy the wrong pool.

August 19, 2026 · 1 min

zfs send/recv from an unencrypted dataset into an encrypted one

No -w. -o encryption=on only on the first recv. The destination dataset name is required.

August 19, 2026 · 1 min