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…
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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. Â 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. Â 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. Â LAG’s are typically dumb in themselves without using Link Aggregation Control Protocol,…
Windows 2012 R2 NPS log files location configuration
After a bit of frustration working on a project recently with a Windows 2012 R2 NPS RADIUS server, I had a bit of a refresher on Windows 2012 R2 NPS…
Cisco VIRL 1.1.1 Upgrade
Well after running Cisco VIRL for a while it has definitely grown on me and with each release it gets better. Â I have been meaning to upgrade to the latest…
Glasswire Windows 10 Network Monitor and Firewall
If you are looking for a great, versatile and useful network monitor and firewall for Windows 10 besides the builtin functionality provided in the box with Windows 10, meet Glasswire.…
Install KVM Ubuntu Server VMware Workstation
If you want to play around with KVM virtualization inside of VMware Workstation, this is quick and easy to do with a few steps. Â Let’s take a look at how…
Install Devstack Openstack Ubuntu VM
If you want to get your feet wet with Openstack, there is a great project available called Devstack which allows you to create a VM with an all in one…