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VMware
VMware Cloud Foundation 9 New Features Accounced
Big news coming from VMware at VMware Explore 2024. They have unveiled VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9. There are many noted features that are coming with VCF 9. Broadcom is aimed at continuing their goal of IT to shift from…
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Storage
Terramaster F8 SSD Plus Review: All Flash NAS with NVMe
I was graciously sent a review unit of the soon to be released (September 2024) Terramaster F8 SSD Plus All Flash NAS for review. I was intrigued when I saw the specs for the unit as it has some great…
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VMware
Shrink the size of vCenter Server VCSA appliance
If you have upgraded a VCSA appliance between versions, if you are like me, you have noticed the size of the upgrade disks that the vCenter Server Installer shows as required seems to double each time you upgrade. It appears…
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Networking
Dell S5224F-ON 25 gig Switch iSCSI Configuration
Recently, I got my hands on a pair of Dell S5224f-on 25 gig switches. These were to be used for a new VMware vSphere installation for a data center refresh, along with Dell EMC storage, Dell servers, etc for a…
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VMware
How to Remove an Inaccessible Datastore in VMware
There are a lot of times when I am working in the home lab and removing things and adding things, changing hardware, etc and you get things in a funky state when it comes to datastores and other configuration. I…
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VMware
VDBench to Benchmark your VMware Datastore
If you have built a VMware ESXi server or cluster with a datastore or multiple datastores, you may want to see if the IOPs with the datastore are what they are supposed to be, or you may not know what…
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VMware
VMware changes default Active Directory Integration settings CVE-2024-37085, CVE-2024-37086, CVE-2024-37087
There has been a lot of back and forth on Active Directory integration security with VMware lately and a really great article by Bob Plankers on Active Directory integration and IdP in general. You can read that here, definitely a…
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Mini PC & Server
Top Home Lab Server Developments in 2024
Wow, what a year we have had so far, there have been so many changes and trends coming down the pipes. We have seen massive changes from Broadcom with VMware and people have really been looking hard and heavy at…
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Mini PC & Server
Minisforum MS-A1 Review as Home Server
When I saw the announcement of the Minisforum MS-A1 AMD Ryzen-based mini workstation that looked like the exact hardware and case of the MS-01, I was excited. I really like the uniform Ryzen processors over the Intel hybrid core processors…
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Mini PC & Server
Almost 2000 LXC containers on a Mini PC!
Well, I am back at it again with running some crazy labs at home on a mini PC. I have been continually impressed with just how powerful these little computers are these days. With modern hardware like a 16 thread…
