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home lab
NAS vs Virtual SAN vs Ceph: What’s the Best Storage for Your Home Lab?
One of the critical design decisions that you have with a home lab is storage. There are many great options available. And, depending on a few things, like which hypervisor you use, you can choose…
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Virtualization
AppAssure Multiple SCSI controllers after export to VM
So far in using AppAssure in several environments, it works pretty well and seems to shine with VM to VM…
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Virtualization
Cold clone failing targeting vSphere 6 Use Nested ESXi 4.1 instead
In P2V’ing an old environment with several old Windows boxes some of which were domain controllers, I had to use…
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Virtualization
Windows 10 ADK USB boot with VMware cold clone 3.03
So this is probably a really weird combination of old and new. The other day I was working to P2V…
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Windows
Can’t get rid of cached credentials Internet Explorer
The other day I had a colleague call me with a pesky credential issue using Internet Explorer. He was connecting…
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Powershell
Powershell Script to check if AppAssure agent is installed on Servers
If you run Dell’s AppAssure backup software in your environment and have a multitude of servers, it is handy to…
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Virtualization
Installing the vSphere 6 Replication Appliance
The vSphere Replication functionality which used to reside exclusively in VMware’s SRM product, is currently a standalone appliance now which…
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Networking
Extreme Summit XOS Basic Initial Switch Configuration
Those who are familiar with Enterasys switches know that the Extreme XOS CLI is vastly different from the Enterasys line…
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VMware
Exclude hosts from vRealize Operations manager license
For those of you running vRealize Operations Manager, you may have a license for say only 6 sockets to monitor…
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Networking
Enable SNMPv3 on Summit XOS Switch configured with enhanced security
Recently, I ran into an issue connected an XOS switch to Netsight monitoring. After looking at Netsight, the console simply said…
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Networking
How to Setup Port Mirroring on Dell Nseries switch
The ability to mirror a port is a very crucial part of troubleshooting especially when you need to see traffic…
