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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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Virtualization
Agentless protection Rapid Recovery 6.0.1
As I mentioned here in the upgrading to Rapid Recovery 6.0.1 post, one of the most anticipated features for me…
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Virtualization
Upgrade AppAssure 5.4.3 to Rapid Recovery 6.0.1
For those of you that don’t know, Dell’s AppAssure product has been rebranded as Rapid Recovery. With 6.0.1 being released,…
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Networking
Configuring jumbo frames between two servers
In tweaking an AppAssure environment recently, I ran through Dell documentation on performance tweaks that are mentioned to help improve…
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Security
Untangle 12 Installation and configuration
I am constantly on a quest to keep finding the better or best firewall/UTM appliance for home/lab purposes as well…
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Networking
Cisco SG300 time configuration
Recently, after working with some logging on my Cisco SG300-20 switch, I wanted to write up a quick post on Cisco…
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Networking
Cisco Native VLAN mismatch
After installing a test Meraki MS220-8 switch in my lab environment at home, I noticed when I remoted into my…
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Security
Arpwatch SMTP configuration
One of the more obscure sources of information when configuring arpwatch is arpwatch SMTP configuration. There are so many flavors…
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Security
Arpwatch Home Network Monitor
Let’s face it, these days, we all need to pay more attention to what is going on with our home…
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vSphere 6
ESXi 6 Equallogic reclaim free space
If you are thin provisioning VMs in your environment with an Equallogic SAN attached to your cluster, you may find…
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vSphere 6
How to tweak performance ESXi 6.0
We might not think about tweaking of the ESXi hosts themselves for performance. While there are other major areas of…
