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Hyper-V
Hyper-V Cluster MPIO iSCSI Installation and Configuration
When configuring storage for Windows Server Hyper-V clusters with SAN storage, you always want to make sure you have multiple paths to your storage for redundancy and performance. With SAN storage and iSCSI you won’t want to utilize link aggregation…
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VMware
VMware NSX Best Practices with Runecast Analyzer v1.8
Gaining best practice expertise is often limited to reading through various documentation, piecing together information gained from support calls, reading books, watching various tech videos, and just the plain old adage “from experience”. However, the list for that process for…
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Site Recovery Manager
Installing VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager SRM 8.1
One of the exiting recent announcements from VMUG was the addition of VMware’s Site Recovery Manager for vSphere being added to the catalog of downloable software for VMUG Advantage Subscribers. Since the announcement, among other things going on in the…
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Backup Software
NAKIVO Backup and Replication v7.5 Released with vSphere 6.7 and Cross-Platform Support
Having an all inclusive data protection solution that has the enterprise capabilities needed to protect an organization with their various disaster recovery needs is crucial for meeting service level agreements for organizations today. Additionally, dataprotection solutions must keep pace with…
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Backup Software
Hyper-V Instant VM Recovery with NAKIVO Backup and Replication
One of the key metrics that organizations look at when deciding upon SLAs during a diaster recovery event is the RTO, or the amount of time the organization is ok to operate without business-critical data. For the backup administrator this…
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home lab
Installing and Configuring Palo Alto PA220 Home Lab Firewall
I have been running a new Palo Alto PA-220 on a TAP interface mirroring my WAN traffic coming into the home lab and loving the visibility to applications that I didn’t have with my previous firewall. Palo certainly gives you…
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Cloud Software
Spinbackup for Office 365 Beta Released Backup and Disaster Recovery Features
Moving from on-prem to public cloud brings tremendous benefits to organizations in terms of being able to scale quickly, carry on development in an agile fashion, and have access to some of the most powerful datacenters and application platforms in…
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vSAN
Move VMware vSAN 6.7 Stretched Cluster to Different vCenter Server
In my home lab I have had several projects going on that have been slowly taking place over the past few weeks. One of those projects was getting my “prodution” vSphere vSAN cluster upgraded to vSphere 6.7 across the board…
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VDI
Praim Agile4PC vs ThinOX4PC VDI Thin Client Management and Configuration
When it comes to being able to control, administer, and configure thin client devices, Praim’s suite of products brings powerful management features and capabilities to the table. Praim has a powerful line of tools and solutions that give organizations and…
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Hyper-V
VMware vs Hyper-V Nested Virtualization
Nested virtualization provides tremendous value for virtualization administrators whether running in VMware or now with Hyper-V environments running Windows Server 2016 as base for the Hyper-V role. Nested virtualization brings to the table many benefits including hypervisor hosted containers, dev/test…
