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Self hosted
CoreControl Is the New Self-Hosted Dashboard Built for Home Labs
Keeping visibility into your home lab over self-hosted services is a critical task. Let’s look at a new home lab dashboard called CoreControl that provides a free open-source dashboard that is a great solution in…
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Networking
VIRL vs GNS3 vs Packet Tracer which one
Network simulators are a great resources for mocking up certain scenarios, learning, certifications, and plain old “what will happen if…
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ActiveDirectory
Nakivo 6.1 Backup and Restore Active Directory
In enterprise environments today, Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD or ADDS) is by far the most widely used authentication engine that…
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VMware
ESXTOP troubleshoot VM network connectivity
ESXTOP is one of the best all around troubleshooting tools in the toolbox of a VMware administrator and it is…
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Networking
Troubleshooting VMware Workstation Network connectivity
Typically, I use VMware Workstation every day running work VMs and performing other testing. I also troubleshoot VMware Workstation for…
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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…
