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Creating and Maintaining a VHDX Drive in WSL

This guide explains how to create, mount, and maintain a VHDX drive for use with WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).

Prerequisites

• Windows 10/11 with WSL2 installed
• Administrative access
• PowerShell
• Sufficient disk space

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Windows & NVIDIA DPC Latency Issues: Troubleshooting Steps

General Steps:

1. Disable Power Saving Features

• Disable all power-saving features in BIOS/UEFI settings.
• Set a high-performance power plan in Windows:

  Right-click on 'Power' icon in taskbar > 'Choose what the power button does' > 'Change settings that are currently unavailable'
  

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#!/bin/bash

# Check if the correct number of arguments is provided
if [ "$#" -ne 2 ]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 <hostname> <IP address>"
  exit 1
fi

HOSTNAME=$1
IP=$2

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Ensure SDK installed:
wget https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh -O dotnet-install.sh
sudo chmod +x ./dotnet-install.sh
./dotnet-install.sh --version latest

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/diagnostics/dotnet-trace

dotnet tool install --global dotnet-trace

Manual download linux: wget https://aka.ms/dotnet-trace/linux-x64

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apt update
apt install python3-pip
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install azure-cli

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#az login
$subs = az account list | ConvertFrom-Json
$allServers = @()
foreach($sub in $subs){
    Write-Output $sub.Name
    az account set -s $sub.Id
    $subServers = az resource list --resource-type 'Microsoft.Sql/servers' | ConvertFrom-Json
    foreach($server in $subServers){
        $allServers += $server
    }

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$ SUBSCRIPTION_ID=$(az account show --query id -o tsv)
$ az rest \
    --url "https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/$SUBSCRIPTION_ID/resourcegroups?api-version=2020-06-01 |
    jq ".value | .[] | .name" -r
    
    
OR


$ curl -sL \

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# Set variables
$subscriptionId="" #Set to your subscription id where the VM is created
$resourceGroup = "" #Resouce group of the VM
$vmName = "" #VM Name
$location = "westeurope" #VM Location
$zone = "2" #1 2 or 3

#Login to the Azure

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Simulate System Loads

https://bash-prompt.net/guides/create-system-load/

Sysadmins often need to discover how the performance of an application is affected when the system is under certain types of load. This means that an artificial load must be re-created. It is, of course, possible to install dedicated tools to do this but this option isn’t always desirable or possible.

Every Linux distribution comes with all the tools needed to create load. They are not as configurable as dedicated tools but they will always be present and you already know how to use them.

CPU
The following command will generate a CPU load by compressing a stream of random data and then sending it to /dev/null:

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# Usage copydisk.sh <newdiskdev> <olddiskmountpoint> <temporary mountpoint>
#  e.g. copydisk.sh /dev/sdc /datadisk /tmpdatadisk
echo New disk attached is at $1
echo Existing disk mount point is at $2
echo Temporary mount point for data copy is at $3

## Add partition table
parted $1 mklabel gpt
## Create partition ext4 100% of the available space
parted $1 mkpart primary ext4 0% 100%