Setting up VLANs Cisco SG300-20 Switch
The Cisco SG300-20 Switch is a great home lab switch that features most of the capabilities that ones see and use in the enterprise environment and for a cheap price.…
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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.
Setup a Hyper-V Cluster Lab in VMware Workstation
Setting up a Hyper-V cluster lab in VMware Workstation is not too difficult and can easily be accomplished in a couple of hours worth of work to get things configured…
Change vRealize Operations Manager 6.01 appliance IP Address
Recently in upgrading a production vSphere 5.5 environment to 6.0, I have been working through the individual infrastructure pieces left over to upgrade. I spun up a new vRealize Operations…
Install Dell OMSA 8.1 in ESXi 6.0 and add to OME
Recently, after upgrading a Dell Cluster to vSphere 6.0, one of the tasks that I wanted to accomplish was to install the new Open Manage Server Administrator or OMSA in…
Upgrade ESXi 5.5 Dell Server cluster to ESXi 6 with VUM
In the post today I would like to go through the process to update a Dell ESXi 5.5 cluster to 6.0 using VUM. Updating a Dell Server cluster running ESXi…
Upgrade VMTurbo to version 5.2
VMTurbo is a great free product out there that is designed to help you monitor your virtual environment free! Recently, they have released version 5.2. The process to update is…
How to block ports with Cloudflare
If you are utilizing Cloudflare as a reverse proxy service for your backend webserver, you may desire to have Cloudflare block certain ports back to your webserver. Cloudlfare passes along…
Upgrading Windows vCenter Server and Update Manager 5.5 to 6.0
The upgrade process to get from the Windows version of vCenter Server 5.5 and Update Manager 5.5 to 6.0 is very straightforward. The installer in my case worked flawlessly and…
Cisco SG300-20 basic configuration for VMware Lab
Cisco’s line of small business fully managed switches I think are really great for learning Cisco networking as well as having everything you need to create a really functional VMware…
Windows Server Technical Preview 2 Soft Reboot
One of the highly anticipated features of the next Server OS from Microsoft is the soft reboot feature which allows for a soft reboot of services and the shell instead of having…