Computers
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StarWind Two Node VMware Hyperconverged VSAN
If you have not heard about StartWind Virtual SAN, it is a highly scalable and powerful virtual SAN solution that allows for a two node hyperconverged configuration for multiple Hypervisor configurations. StarWind VSAN allows you to take internal storage whether…
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Deploy Netwrix Auditor Virtual Appliance
Netwrix Auditor is a great tool for automating the auditing of your Infrastructure. It is highly capable and audits just about any type of environment that you can think of including Windows Servers, VMware environments, SQL server, etc. Recently, they…
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Optimize Windows 10 for VMware Horizon View 7.1
In thinking about our client OS desktops that we will be using for our VMware Horizon View 7.1 lab, there are a number of things we need to do to optimize the operating system for using with VDI. Thankfully, there…
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Nakivo Backup and Replication v7 released with new features
For those who were extremely excited for the news of the Nakivo Backup & Replication v7 beta release will be even more excited as the official v7 release is now available! This new release of Nakivo moves the NBR product…
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Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cluster Not Enough Storage Space Available
I wanted to write up a quick end of the week post that had me scratching my head for a bit in a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V cluster lab I had built up. When powering up a virtual machine in…
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Three lesser known ways to test SQL connectivity
In troubleshooting a SQL connectivity issue recently, I tried multiple tests in connecting to SQL to help troubleshoot the issue. In this post, let’s take a look at three lesser known ways to test SQL connectivity including ODBC, a UDL…
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Nakivo Backup and Replication V7 Announced Adds Hyper-V Support
Nakivo Backup and Replication V7 Announced Adds Hyper-V Support – Nakivo who is known for rock solid and cutting edge VMware and Amazon EC2 backups has extended their offering to include Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization platform. The Hyper-V backup capabilities use…
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Change VMware NSX Controller Settings
If you are looking into NSX especially in a lab environment, the resource requirements for the NSX virtual infrastructure is quite costly. Especially with high availability, you are looking at steep memory and CPU requirements. Also, if you look to edit…
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Updating vCenter VCSA and update manager to 6.0 U1b
Recently VMware released the U1b release of vSphere products. I wanted to post some quick notes and steps used to update a vCenter 6.0 U1a release to U1b revision level. What is contained in this release? A few of the…
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Monitor LSI Megaraid RAID controller in VMware
Last week in working with a “whitebox” ESXi server running a VMware lab that was running on an LSI 9280-16i4E controller, the need arose to monitor LSI Megaraid storage controller in VMware and see an initialization process that was running as…
