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home lab
Do You Really Need a Full-Sized Rack for Your Home Lab in 2025?
In 2025, home labs are more powerful and smaller than ever, thanks to mini PCs. Mini PCs with AMD Ryzen or Intel Core Ultra processors now have up to 32 threads or more and can…
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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…
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Virtualization
Stretch isolated network between multiple ESXi servers
Setting up testing networks and lab networks have been very interesting to me the past few weeks. When you are setting…
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Virtualization
Install EqualLogic Multipath Extension Module MEM in VMware ESXi
VMware vSphere provides the ability to leverage Pluggable Storage Architecture or PSA that enables using multipathing for HA as well…
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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…
