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Containers
Best 5 Docker Container Operating Systems in 2025 (Home Lab & Enterprise Picks)
If you are starting to run containers in 2025 in the home lab or production environments, the operating system you choose is the foundation that starts it all. Since containers are lightweight by design, it…
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Hyper-V
Copy ISO file to Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
For those coming from the VMware world of doing things and wanting to get their feet wet with Hyper-V, one…
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Backup Software
How to Verify VM Backups with Nakivo
It can’t be stressed enough with backing up virtual environments, how important it is to verify your backups. You can easily…
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Networking
Copper 10g Twinax cables not linking
Most by now are running 10g network connections at least in the core network or especially in virtualization environments with…
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home lab
Monitoring Home Lab Network like Production
Most of us die hard geeks are running home labs as part of the never ending learning process AND because,…
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Backup Software
Vembu Quick VM Recovery Ensures Business Continuity with Minimal Downtime
When disaster strikes and business operations are interrupted by either software or infrastructure failure, the RTO (recovery time objective) or…
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Backup Software
Export Nakivo Backup and Replication configuration to another appliance
In looking at backup technologies available for virtual infrastructures today, Nakivo Backup and Replication is a leader and definitely one to…
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Backup Software
Veeam Restore Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Objects
When thinking about DR, Active Directory backup and restoration is CRITICAL! Period! If you can restore all of your important…
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Software
Great Free Linux Load Balancer
If you are looking to play around with load balancing for free, then check out the Kemp LoadMaster virtual Appliance.…
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Networking
GNS3 Beta Packet Capture between QEMU devices
One of the cool things that you can do with GNS3 is packet captures between devices. However, if you are…
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Security
Cisco Meraki Security Appliance Review
Recently, I have been looking to revamp my home lab network with something a little more power and newer technology.…
