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home lab
10 Home Lab Mistakes I Made (So You Don’t Have To)
They say that you learn more from mistakes than when things go successfully. I can definitely attest to that fact. I have had some horrible crash and burns in the home lab. But, when the…
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vSphere 6.5
Configure VMware vSphere Encryption Key Management Server Cluster
One of the exciting features with vSphere 6.5 is the ability to perform virtual machine encryption. We have already taken…
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VMware
Delete VMware Distributed Virtual Switch The Resource Is In Use
Recently, in working with the home lab environment, moving hosts around, playing around with various networking, etc, I ran into…
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VMware
VMware Performance Impact of Meltdown and Spectre Patches
Update 3.20.2018 – VMware has released vSphere 6.5 U1G which has a newly released microcode update Update 1.17.2018 – Firmware…
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Backup Software
Vembu BDR Suite 3.9 New Features
Vembu has recently announced the upcoming release of Vembu BDR Suite 3.9. Vembu continues to innovate in their already very…
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home lab
10 Gig Switch for Home Lab
For quite a while now, I have been wanting to get the lab up to 10 gig connectivity especially for…
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Workstation
Perform Live Backups of VMware Workstation Virtual Machines
There are many products out there that support live backups of enterprise hypervisors such as VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V…
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Security
New Intel Design Flaw is VMware Affected?
Update 1.11.2018 – Script from William Lam to check VMs and Hosts/Clusters ***Update 1.9.2018 – VMware releases CPU microcode update…
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Backup Software
Veeam Restore VM hardware version is not supported by destination host
After shipping a Veeam backup to another site location and attempting to restore, I ran into an issue the other…
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Backup Software
Choosing the Best G Suite Backup Solution
Most organizations today are either thinking about migrating applications and resources to the public cloud or their migration is already…
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home lab
Veeam NFR Licenses for Home Labs
For most of us running home labs, having access to actual fully featured production software is a great way to…
