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home lab
NAS vs Virtual SAN vs Ceph: What’s the Best Storage for Your Home Lab?
One of the critical design decisions that you have with a home lab is storage. There are many great options available. And, depending on a few things, like which hypervisor you use, you can choose…
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Networking
Installing and Configuring Thousandeyes Enterprise Agents
For those that haven’t heard of Thousandeyes, it is a cloud based service that helps to quickly and easily track…
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Computers
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…
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Computers
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.…
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home lab
Configure vCenter Operations Manager Gmail Email Alerts
For those running a Home Lab at their house on commodity consumer Internet connections, many ISPs block port 25 outbound…
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Windows Server 2016
Add iSCSI target Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Core
Working with Windows Server 2016 Server Core is a bit more difficult than working with the GUI enabled version of…
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VMware
Four ways to upload files to VMware vSphere datastore
Uploading files whether it be ISO’s, VMX config files, or VMDKs is a necessary task for most VMware administrators in…
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Resources
MSDN Visual Studio Enterprise subscription additional benefits
If you are an MSDN, now Visual Studio Enterprise subscriber, there are a number of benefits outside of getting Microsoft…
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vSphere 6.5
VMware Disk Consolidation unable to access file since it is locked
I wanted to write up a quick post concerning an error I received recently with consolidating disks on a few…
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Backup Software
Vembu BDR Suite Consistent Application Aware Backup and Restore
Vembu BDR Suite allows for application aware backups and restoration of application/transactional resources such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, etc. …
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Security
Sophos Home Edition Installation and Configuration
If you are looking for an enterprise class virus scan package for home for multiple pcs that is free, you…
