Agentless protection Rapid Recovery 6.0.1
As I mentioned here in the upgrading to Rapid Recovery 6.0.1 post, one of the most anticipated features for me of Rapid Recovery was the agentless backup. Having to maintain…
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Upgrade AppAssure 5.4.3 to Rapid Recovery 6.0.1
For those of you that don’t know, Dell’s AppAssure product has been rebranded as Rapid Recovery. With 6.0.1 being released, and touting some very worthy features, I decided it was…
Configuring jumbo frames between two servers
In tweaking an AppAssure environment recently, I ran through Dell documentation on performance tweaks that are mentioned to help improve AppAssure backup performance. One of the recommended tweaks for network…
Untangle 12 Installation and configuration
I am constantly on a quest to keep finding the better or best firewall/UTM appliance for home/lab purposes as well as for small business use cases where installing a virtual…
Cisco SG300 time configuration
Recently, after working with some logging on my Cisco SG300-20 switch, I wanted to write up a quick post on Cisco SG300 time configuration and how to go about setting this…
Cisco Native VLAN mismatch
After installing a test Meraki MS220-8 switch in my lab environment at home, I noticed when I remoted into my core switch for my lab, a Cisco SG300-20, it was…
Arpwatch SMTP configuration
One of the more obscure sources of information when configuring arpwatch is arpwatch SMTP configuration. There are so many flavors of linux and SMTP servers, how can you easily setup…
Arpwatch Home Network Monitor
Let’s face it, these days, we all need to pay more attention to what is going on with our home networks. I have the mindset and maybe this is overkill…
ESXi 6 Equallogic reclaim free space
If you are thin provisioning VMs in your environment with an Equallogic SAN attached to your cluster, you may find that you start receiving warning from SAN HQ or your…
How to tweak performance ESXi 6.0
We might not think about tweaking of the ESXi hosts themselves for performance. While there are other major areas of performance consideration in a vSphere cluster such as your storage…