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Containers
Top Docker Performance Tweaks on Low-Power Hardware
There are two things that I highly recommend for modern home lab environments, Docker and low-power mini PCs. Docker provides a much more efficient way to run apps compared to running full virtual machines. Also,…
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Powershell
Reset unresponsive VM with Powershell PowerCLI
I had a recent use case to be able to check the reachability of a certain VM which had shown…
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SQL
SQL Cluster computer account could not be configured
In working on an older Microsoft SQL Cluster server configuration recently, I ran into an issue with a lab copy…
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Powershell
Change Default Gateway with Powershell
One of the best ways to automate or check network settings with modern Windows OS’es is to use Powershell. Recently, I…
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NSX
Troubleshooting NSX VXLAN jumbo frames in nested lab
In working recently in a nested VMware environment running three clusters and NSX, I ran into a jumbo frames issue…
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Networking
Configure Dell Nseries switch stack
A quick little how to post on creating a stack between Dell Nseries switches. For the purposes of this post,…
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Powershell
Monitor application pool IIS recycle if needed
In working with an issue where an application pool was taking an entire website down, it became apparent we needed…
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VMware
There was an error connecting to NSX manager API
A quick issue I ran into yesterday connecting a restful API client to an NSX manager – “there was an…
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Powershell
Powershell script signing the easy way
So I wanted to throw a quick blog post out there on Powershell script signing the easy way. This is…
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VMware
ESXi 6 Configure Management Network Greyed out
The other day when playing around “rather hard” with distributed switches and NSX, I broke my distributed switch implementation on…
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Virtualization
Veeam Big Announcement today
There was a Veeam Big Announcement today or actually quite a few large announcements about their product portfolio which extends…
