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Mini PC & Server
NPUs in Mini PCs are Worthless for a Home Lab, Here’s Why
I have totally shifted my home lab over to using mini PCs in the past couple of years. Full-blown enterprise servers, while cool, are simply not needed to self-host or do very cool things as…
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Latest articles
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NSX-T
What is the VMware NSX-T Virtual Distributed Switch N-VDS Deployment and Migration
The virtual network switches in VMware vSphere are the component of the virtual infrastructure that performs the heavy lifting of…
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VMware
VMware patches new Intel speculative execution microarchitectural data sampling MDS vulnerability
Perhaps the biggest security news of 2018 was the CPU flaws discovered with speculative execution vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs specifically…
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Backup Software
Vembu BDR Suite v4.0.1 Released New Features and Enhancements
Vembu BDR Suite is one of the most versatile data protection solutions available on the market today and continues to…
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vSAN
Configure Network I/O Control NIOC with vSAN vSphere Distributed Switch
Recently, in the home lab, I wanted to move to converged networking with vSphere Distributed Switch on my “production” vSAN…
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Backup Software
NAKIVO Backup and Replication v8.5 Released GA
Not too long ago we covered the release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v8.5 Beta and the new features contained…
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Computers
Windows Server 2019 Unattended Install Windows Updates
When performing an unattended installation of Windows Server, one of the great things you can do is also install any…
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Windows Terminal
Download the New Microsoft Windows Terminal Command Prompt
***Update*** Windows Terminal Preview Microsoft Store Link posted *** See Below Microsoft is at it again, releasing cool new tools…
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Windows Server 2019
Create Unattend Answer File for Windows Server 2019 Automated Packer Installation
Recently, I have been working a lot with Packer installations in the home lab to configure automated builds of Server…
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Windows Server 2019
Install and Configure Windows Server 2019 Azure Network Adapter
There are many new and exciting features found in Windows Server 2019 and many of these have to do with…
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VMware
Share VMDK Data Between VMs Multi-Writer Disk Without Cluster File System
Recently, in working with a client with many different lab environments, there arose the need to copy SQL backups from…
