Virtualization, Cloud, DevOps, Reviews
When thinking about DR, Active Directory backup and restoration is CRITICAL! Period! If you can restore all of your important SQL servers, Sharepoint, Exchange, exactly as they were in production…
If you are looking to play around with load balancing for free, then check out the Kemp LoadMaster virtual Appliance. The Kemp virtual appliance is a great free Linux Load…
One of the cool things that you can do with GNS3 is packet captures between devices. However, if you are using QEMU (Quick Emulator) Cisco image devices, the current stable…
Recently, I have been looking to revamp my home lab network with something a little more power and newer technology. I have been running the Sophos UTM x86 product for…
In looking at firewall upgrades for home lab and network, I have been taking a look at a variety of firewalls. Recently, I was able to get my hands on a…
In playing around with adding an existing iSCSI LUN to a new VMware ESXi 6.5 host in a lab environment, I ran into a peculiar issue adding the storage to…
Today, Veeam released the Linux agent for physical Linux workloads running in your environment. This helps to bridge the gap that you may have had before with using Veeam as…
With all of the new storage enhancements that come with vSphere 6.5 using 4K aligned drives and the new unmap feature, you need to use a VMFS 6 formatted datastore.…
One of the new features and functionality that is probably getting overlooked with the other great functionality that is out in vSphere 6.5, is VMware ESXi 6.5 4k 512e drive support.…
One of the many exciting new features of the VCSA 6.5 appliance is the builtin ability for high availability or HA out of the box. The HA configuration process creates…
