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Virtualization
Installing and configuring VMware Operations Manager 5.5
vCenter Operations Manager allows admins to monitor and manage the health, performance, and capacity planning of their current vSphere infrastructure environment. It provides a really nice graphical interface to help visualize possible heat maps of issues in your vSphere infrastructure…
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Windows
Setup iSCSI Napp-it Windows Server 2012 R2 Cluster
In playing around recently in my home VMware lab, I set about created a Windows Server 2012 R2 cluster with iSCSI storage. I have used many products over the years as opensource NAS appliances such as OpenFiler and others out…
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Web
Nginx configuration, security, and other information
Nginx is rapidly gaining popularity in the WebHosting world, especially since performance, speed, and scaling are becoming ever more important. Nginx is capable of handling a large amount of concurrent connections with a fair amount of ease. It is used…
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Cool Stuff
Hacker Typer – code like a hacker
If you are ever needlessly bored or you have the desire to become a super hacker able to blast out lines of code in an instant and impress your friends or visitors, HackerTyper.net is your friend! I cranked out the…
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Networking
Viewing and killing TCP IP connections Windows
Many time in troubleshooting or needing to view network traffic information or connection information, seeing your TCP/IP connections in Windows can provide valuable insight into problems or issues that may be going on in Windows with connectivity. Also, viewing connection information…
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News
Untangle 11.0 new features and changes
Untangle has announced and released a new version of their ever popular UTM device the NG Firewall which is used by an ever growing number of customers. The simplicity and all-in-one nature of the product appeals to many as one…
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Web
Installing a LEMP server with WordPress and Google Pagespeed
If you are looking to host a webserver and want a really reliable, stable platform that has excellent performance, a LEMP server using the latest flavor of Ubuntu – 14.04 along with Nginx and Google Pagespeed is hard to beat.…
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Windows
Access local drives in an RDP session
I see many admins and developers struggling with the RDP environment trying to copy files to a location where they have access to the files in the RDP session and their host workstation. Many even create shares and exceptions in…
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Windows
Windows 10 Security concerns already
The story broke before the weekend as reported among others by the Hacker News about Windows 10 Preview having a keylogger to spy on your activities. It seems that Microsoft may be taking its technical preview to the next level of…
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Virtualization
Installing vSphere Update Manager 5.5 update 2 and configuration
Maintaining and deploying patches and updates throughout any environment can take a lot of heavy lifting by administrators. VMware environments need to be patched and updated along with other OS environments in any enterprise environment. While updates can be manually…
