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Windows Server 2019
Upgrade Windows Server 2019 Evaluation to Full Version Standard to Datacenter
Recently, I ran into an issue playing around with Storage Spaces Direct where I had inadvertently cloned over a Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition template. Storage Spaces Direct is feature that requires running Windows Server 2019 Datacenter. I had invested…
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vSphere 6.7
VMware vSphere VCSA 6.5 to VCSA 6.7 Postgres Upgrade Error Fix
A couple of days ago in a production environment, I ran into an issue upgrading an existing VCSA 6.5 appliance to a VCSA 6.7 appliance. Stage 1 of the upgrade process with the appliance deployment was going fine, however, with…
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Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019 GA Storage Spaces Direct Non-WSSD Certified Registry Key
For those that are labbing with Windows Server 2019 RTM version Storage Spaces Direct, you may quickly find that if you try to provision a lab version of Storage Spaces Direct using the “re-released” GA bits of the OS, you…
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Computers
VMware vSphere Web client Adobe Flash Prompt Greyed Out Blank Chrome Issue Fix
Thanks to VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 1, the “Flex” client or Adobe Flash client is quickly going by the wayside. However, if you support environments that are yet up and running on vSphere 6.7 U1 which is likely still quite…
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Backup Software
How To Implement Policy Driven Data Protection with NAKIVO
Today’s IT operations across the board are having to adopt new methods of automating various workflows as there is simply no way to keep up in today’s fast-paced environments with manual operations anymore. Automation is the key to being able…
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Security
Create DNS Sinkhole to Block Malware Domains with PAN-OS 9.0
This week Palo Alto released PAN-OS 9.0. There are over 60 new capabilities in this release of the new firmware and many great new features. There is a new security functionality introduced as part of PAN-OS 9.0 that is an…
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home lab
VMware TestDrive added to VMUG Advantage Subscriptions
Every post that you read about VMUG Advantage from vExperts in the community is how great a value it really is. This is due to the fact that for the price that you pay for a year, you increasingly get…
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NSX-T
Configure NSX-T Manager Network from Command Line
Today I will be posting a quick tip that I hope may help others who have done the same thing that I did – buzz quickly through deploying an NSX-T Manager appliance without correctly setting DNS, NTP, or search order…
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vSAN
Troubleshooting vSAN Performance in Five Steps
Software-defined solutions such as software-defined networking and storage have revolutionized the world of virtualization. Abstracting these core areas of architecture away from the actual physical hardware allows robust features and agility that simply can’t be achieved with a hardware-only solution.…
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VDI
Manage Thin Clients and PCs Across Remote Sites with Praim Gateway
Virtualized desktop infrastructure or VDI brings many tremendous benefits to organizations looking to modernize end user computing. However, without the right tools to manage VDI environments, there can be challenges with doing this efficiently and effectively. This can be even…
