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home lab
Home Assistant Docker Compose Design Decisions: Networking, Storage, Backups
If you have been wanting to get into Home Assistant, it is a growing ecosystem that is fun and exciting. And, if you already have a home lab environment, which most of the readers here…
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Software
Monitor Active Directory Changes with Netwrix Auditor
Auditing environments is definitely a labor intensive task if done manually. Why do something manually when we can employ either…
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Hyper-V
Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.1 supports Hyper-V Cluster Backups
Nakivo is certainly keeping a blistering pace of new features and functionality within the Backup & Replication product. The Nakivo…
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Software
Automate VMware Best Practices with Runecast Analyzer
One of the words that we typically hear a lot in the IT industry especially when thinking about configurations of…
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VMware PowerCLI
Automate vSwitch and VMkernel configuration VMware PowerCLI
As we have already detailed in this post about how we can configure VMware clusters with PowerCLI and the benefits…
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VMware PowerCLI
VMware PowerCLI 6.5.1 New Way to Install
If you haven’t updated your VMware PowerCLI installation in a while, you will be interested to know there is a…
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Windows 10
Windows 10 VM 99 percent disk utilization performance issue
In troubleshooting a recent performance issue in my home lab environment on a couple of Windows 10 VMs that I…
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Windows Server 2016
When to use Windows Server 2016 ReFS
Windows Server 2016 has many exciting enhancements, however, one that many will want to take advantage of is the new…
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VMware PowerCLI
Configure VMware vSphere Cluster with Web Client or PowerCLI
As powerful as VMware ESXi is out of the box in a standalone single server format, we really don’t get…
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Powershell
Veeam Powershell Automatically Add Backup Jobs
One of the great things with Veeam Backup & Replication is the integration with PowerShell and the ability to automate…
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Windows Server 2016
Install and Configure Windows Server 2016 WSUS
Windows Server Update Services or WSUS is a Microsoft product that allows us to centrally manage patches for Microsoft operating…
