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VMware
Slipstream the Latest VMware ESXi Patches into the Installation ISO
Many Windows administrators remember the term from back in the day of “slipstreaming.” This was where you would take the latest patches that were released and you took these patches and essentially combined them into the installation media so when…
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Tanzu
How to Create a vSphere with Tanzu Namespace
No doubt, there are many like me that are having fun playing around with vSphere with Tanzu. I have been utilizing William Lam’s vSphere with Tanzu automation script to quickly deploy nested environments in the lab with just a few…
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Security
Install Palo Alto VM Series in VMware vSphere
Recently, in the home lab, I have been doing a lot of lab networking configurations and testing various scenarios. Recently, thanks to the great guys at Palo Alto, I was able to get my hands on a VM-series firewall to…
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Software Defined Storage
StarWind New OEM Solutions for Vendors and Integrators
StarWind provides a wealth of products and solutions that offer tremendous value to SMB and enterprise organizations. From StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), StarWind Virtual Tape Library, and StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator, StarWind provides many great products that allow organizations to have…
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Backup Software
Data Backup in Virtualized Environments
Organizations today are making use of many different types of infrastructure across the landscape of their business. Over the past decade, infrastructure backing business-critical workloads have shifted to virtualized environments capable of running many workloads on top of the physical…
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VMware Monitoring
PRTG VMware Host Hardware Status Monitor with SNMP
Monitoring is often a not so glorious or desirable thing to do. One of those “have to haves” that, depending on the solution, can be cumbersome to configure and setup where it works properly. PRTG is a monitoring solution that…
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Security
How U.S. Hospitals Can Protect Against Imminent Ransomware Threat
This has been a wild year in terms of imminent disasters and extenuating events that lead to disruptions across the board. If it weren’t enough that organizations have had to face the fallout and effects of a global pandemic, cybercriminals…
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Tanzu
Configure VMware vSphere with Tanzu Workload Management
In the previous post, I took a look at how to Install HAProxy in VMware vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes. This is a prerequisite step in configuring the Workload Management configuration with vSphere networking. With vSphere 7 Update 1, you can…
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vSAN
Change from vSAN Deduplication and Compression to Compression Only?
VMware vSAN 7U1 provides many options for managing space in the environment. Up until the release of VMware vSAN 7U1, for space efficiency, you only had the option for compression and deduplication. New with vSAN 7U1 there is a new…
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Security
Safe Internet Surfing for Kids
When it comes to setting up a safe way for your kids to access the Internet, it is becoming more difficult. Especially if you have small children, you want to set up many safeguards to be able to protect them…