Monitor Active Directory Changes with Netwrix Auditor
Auditing environments is definitely a labor intensive task if done manually. Why do something manually when we can employ either automation or software to do this for us? Active Directory…
Month: May 2017
Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.1 supports Hyper-V Cluster Backups
Nakivo is certainly keeping a blistering pace of new features and functionality within the Backup & Replication product. The Nakivo Backup & Replication v7 release was huge in the features…
Automate VMware Best Practices with Runecast Analyzer
One of the words that we typically hear a lot in the IT industry especially when thinking about configurations of hardware and software is “best practices”. Â It is certainly important…
Automate vSwitch and VMkernel configuration VMware PowerCLI
As we have already detailed in this post about how we can configure VMware clusters with PowerCLI and the benefits of doing so, the sky is the limit in what…
VMware PowerCLI 6.5.1 New Way to Install
If you haven’t updated your VMware PowerCLI installation in a while, you will be interested to know there is a new way to install VMware PowerCLI. Â With the release of…
Windows 10 VM 99 percent disk utilization performance issue
In troubleshooting a recent performance issue in my home lab environment on a couple of Windows 10 VMs that I had running, I had a peculiar issue that arose. Â In…
When to use Windows Server 2016 ReFS
Windows Server 2016 has many exciting enhancements, however, one that many will want to take advantage of is the new version of the ReFS file system that is baked into…
Configure VMware vSphere Cluster with Web Client or PowerCLI
As powerful as VMware ESXi is out of the box in a standalone single server format, we really don’t get all the benefits of running a hypervisor in a single…
Veeam Powershell Automatically Add Backup Jobs
One of the great things with Veeam Backup & Replication is the integration with PowerShell and the ability to automate many of the job options using PowerShell. Â This is extremely…
Install and Configure Windows Server 2016 WSUS
Windows Server Update Services or WSUS is a Microsoft product that allows us to centrally manage patches for Microsoft operating systems and other Microsoft products. Â With Windows Server 2016, the…