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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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vSphere 6
Upgrade VMware vRealize Operations Manager vROPs 6.2
In rolling through quite a few upgrades recently, I wanted to posted some screenshots and process notes of upgrading vROPs…
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Virtualization
Simulate latency virtualization test lab
One of the coolest parts of having a virtualization environment is that you can setup as many labs as you…
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vSphere 6
Expecting 2 bootbanks found 0 VMware ESXi 6
I ran into a pesky issue yesterday when rolling through a slew of host updates in a few production clusters.…
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vSphere 6
Update manager Upgrade VMware ESXi 6.0 update 2
Below are the simple and easy steps to get your ESXi 6.0 u1 or earlier installation to update 2 (3620759)…
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vSphere 6
VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 2 Host Client
With the release of ESXi 6.0 Update 2, one of the cool things with this release is VMware has included…
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Networking
Cisco VIRL Review
After using Cisco VIRL for a few days now, I wanted to write up a post on my thoughts and…
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Windows 10
Intel Proset no vlans or teaming in Windows 10
In helping out with a Windows 10 upgrade project on a precision workstation, I stumbled onto a show stopper issue…
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Networking
Use PRTG Monitor Internet Connection
If you are looking for an all around great network monitoring tool, then PRTG Network Monitor is a great choice.…
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Security
Free Rogue Network Device Detection
If you have ever looked for free rogue network device detection, such as similar to what McAfee EPO provides, I…
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Networking
Autonetkit not working VIRL
Recently, I decided to get my hands on VIRL which is the Virtual Internet Routing Lab software from Cisco. Being…
