Securing RDP access to Home Lab
One of the cool things about having a home lab is being able to reach it from anywhere. ย Of course, when thinking about how you are going to make your…
Month: May 2016
Upgrade firmware Equallogic multiple member group
I put together just a few notes after going through a recent project of an upgrade firmware Equallogic multiple member group. ย Essentially the process is the same as upgrading a…
Remote Desktop Connection Manager Replacement
I don’t typically write up a lot of posts about admin software unless I find something that I feel is truly worthy of letting others know about. ย As many of…
Windows cannot be installed to this disk 4K drives
With the recent SuperMicro server build, I am utilizing Seagateย ST8000NM0065 drives. ย High density 4K drives are starting to come of age, however, there are still a few tricks required to…
Mount Virtual Media SuperMicro IPMI
In the previous post here, I walked through the SuperMicro IPMI management interface and a few of the options that are available to administrators there for management of their SuperMicro…
Supermicro IPMI management walkthrough
If you are utilizing Supermicro in your lab environment, there is a great feature that comes with Supermicro boards that allows BMC IPMI management of the server. ย It is basically…
Add Cloudflare IPs Amazon EC2 Security Group
If you are utilizing Cloudflare as your DNS/CDN provider for your website and you are utilizing an Amazon EC2 instance as your host, let’s take a quick look at the…
TCP Auto-tuning slow network performance
Starting with Windows Vista, there were improvements made to the network stack including a little known feature called TCP Window Auto-tuning. ย The auto-tuning feature allows newer versions of Windows to…
Design Considerations LACP LAG
Link Aggregation Groups are multiple connections between two switches that allow the switch to aggregate links/bandwidth between them. ย LAG’s are typically dumb in themselves without using Link Aggregation Control Protocol,…