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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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Security
Configure Splunk for Meraki MX
In looking at firewall upgrades for home lab and network, I have been taking a look at a variety of…
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VMware
VMware ESXi 6.5 Can’t Add Existing iSCSI LUN
In playing around with adding an existing iSCSI LUN to a new VMware ESXi 6.5 host in a lab environment,…
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Backup Software
Veeam Linux Agent Installation and Configuration
Today, Veeam released the Linux agent for physical Linux workloads running in your environment. This helps to bridge the gap…
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vSphere 6.5
How to Create VMFS 6 Datastore in VMware vSphere 6.5
With all of the new storage enhancements that come with vSphere 6.5 using 4K aligned drives and the new unmap…
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vSphere 6.5
VMware ESXi 6.5 4k Drive Support
One of the new features and functionality that is probably getting overlooked with the other great functionality that is out…
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vSphere 6.5
How to Configure VMware VCSA 6.5 HA
One of the many exciting new features of the VCSA 6.5 appliance is the builtin ability for high availability or…
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vSphere 6.5
VMware vSphere 6.5 new features
VMware vSphere 6.5 has been released now and we are beginning to get our heads around the new functionality and…
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Backup Software
Veeam SQL Server 2014 Standard Installation
Veeam uses SQL as the backend for the configuration database. By default, if you choose no other option, the installer…
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vSphere 6.5
VMware VCSA 6.5 Appliance Restore
In the last post, we covered the process to backup the new VCSA 6.5 appliance. Let’s now take a look…
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vSphere 6.5
New VMware VCSA 6.5 Appliance Backup
With the new VCSA 6.5 appliance, there is new functionality to backup the VCSA appliance builtin to the VAMI interface.…