Altaro Update Supports Hyper-V CBT
In case you haven’t heard as of yet, with the lastest round of releases from Altaro, i.e. version 6.5, the Altaro update supports Hyper-V CBT or change block tracking, which…
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Brandon Lee is the Senior Writer, Engineer and owner at Virtualizationhowto.com, and a 7-time VMware vExpert, with over two decades of experience in Information Technology. Having worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as in various industries, He has extensive experience in various IT segments and is a strong advocate for open source technologies. Brandon holds many industry certifications, loves the outdoors and spending time with family. Also, he goes through the effort of testing and troubleshooting issues, so you don't have to.
Use same domain login for production and lab
Labs are cool right? We can use them for many use cases when it comes to testing and proof of concept mock ups. If you have been tasked to spin…
Veeam the object has already been deleted or has not been completely created
A quick post here of an issue I ran into supporting a Veeam Backup job in a particular environment. After needing to restore a handful of VMs to rollback a…
P2V Windows Cluster Rapid Recovery
The last few days I have been involved with a project to P2V an old Windows 2003 (yes cringe, bang head against wall now) cluster running SQL 2005. The P2V…
Try Nakivo 6.1 Beta Download
Having used a lot of different backup products over the years in the enterprise and in the home lab environment, there are many qualities of a backup software that become…
VMware NSX Domain conflict with 1 existing domain
Recently, I ran into a peculiar issue with VMware NSX trying to add domains for security grouping. Through the GUI the process is fairly straightforward. However, after adding a domain…
Troubleshooting Domain Join Issues
Have you ever had one of those situations where you could not get a workstation or server to join the domain? I had this happen recently and wanted to detail…
Set Audit Policy Powershell
Scripting mundane setup tasks is essential in today’s world of server/workstation provisioning in the fast paced Virtualization environments we as system administrators manage. If you are like me, you may…
Create LACP LAG between Extreme and Enterasys switches
A late breaking project I was involved with recently with a client was adding 10G port count to an environment that had simply outgrown the number of 10G ports that were…
Cisco Meraki MR18 install review
I was excited recently to get my hands on a Cisco Meraki MR18 and wanted to share with you all some thoughts and opinions of the product after having installed,…