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home lab
5 Storage Projects to Supercharge Your Home Lab This Weekend
Storage is one of the coolest projects that you can undertake in your home lab as most apps or services that you want to self-host will have the need to store things. Aside from specific…
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home lab
How to flash Avago LSI RAID controller firmware with boot disk
In working on provisioning a new Supermicro lab server that is outfitted with an Avago LSI 9380-4i4e SAS RAID controller,…
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Virtualization
Upgrading Veeam Backup and Replication 9.0 update 2
Veeam recently released 9.0 Update 2 of their Backup & Replication product. This is a pretty major release as it…
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Virtualization
ESXi 6.0 Install Can’t Have a Partition Outside the disk
This past week in working with a Supermicro lab host filled with 12 4TB drives, I ran into an issue…
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Security
Untangle 12.1 Review and Impressions
So virtual firewalls and appliances are all the rage these days and there are many options to choose from. Historically,…
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Networking
How to Configure Untangle site to site VPN
In working on a DR project utilizing two Untangle virtual appliances, I had the need to setup a site to…
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Virtualization
Nakivo Backup & Replication 6.1 – powerful choice for VM backup
Just a quick blurb to spread the news about Nakivo Backup & Replication 6.1. It is now in GA release…
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Computers
Change VMware NSX Controller Settings
If you are looking into NSX especially in a lab environment, the resource requirements for the NSX virtual infrastructure is…
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Windows 10
Windows 10 static address shows 169 address
Today I ran into a weird situation with a Windows 10 VM that I wanted to write up a quick…
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SQL
Troubleshooting general SQL connectivity issues
There are quite a few things that an administrator may need to check when it comes to making sure connectivity…
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Windows
Map a network drive from remote desktop back to local computer
If you are working a lot with remote desktop sessions especially in lab environments where network segmentation is present, there…
