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VMware
Audit VMware vSphere changes with Netwrix Auditor
Auditing is one of those challenging areas in IT that has always been a sore thumb subject to most administrators. Auditing has traditionally not been an easy thing to do. Sure it is easy to enable all the audit switches…
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Backup Software
Veeam Windows Agent not showing backup repository
Just a quick post on a little issue I saw with configuring a new Veeam Windows Agent 2.0 workstation pointing to a Veeam Repository. Â When configuring the backup, the repository that I wanted to select was not listed in the…
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NSX
VMUG VMware vRNI bundled with NSX offering
As we had posted a while back, VMUG Advantage Evalexperience had seriously sweetened the already sweet deal of the Advantage subscription by adding in VMware NSX to the mix. This was the real major remaining piece to round out the…
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Software Defined Storage
Install ScaleIO 2.0 in VMware vSphere 6
In talking about software defined storage, most are familiar with VMware vSAN. Â However, there is another extremely powerful SDS solution available for free from EMC called StorageIO. Â StorageIO is free in the context of a lab or development environment. Â Otherwise…
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VMware PowerCLI
Install VMware Pester PowerCLI Configuration Management
PowerShell can do so many cool things for us not just from an automation standpoint but also from a configuration management standpoint. Â I wanted to help give some visibility to a great bit of PowerShell PowerCLI code called Vester that…
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VDI
Automate and Repurpose Old PCs into Thin Client VDI
In many enterprise environments that may have aging desktop hardware and who are looking to transition to a VDI solution for end users, there are often difficult fiscal decisions that come to light when thinking of replacing hardware across the…
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Software
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 auditing is one of those tedious tasks that can be…
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Hyper-V
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 and functionality released including the ability to backup Hyper-V servers.…
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Software
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 to make sure we configure our software and hardware according…
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VMware PowerCLI
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 we can do with VMware PowerCLI and automating configuration processes…