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Containers
Best 5 Docker Container Operating Systems in 2025 (Home Lab & Enterprise Picks)
If you are starting to run containers in 2025 in the home lab or production environments, the operating system you choose is the foundation that starts it all. Since containers are lightweight by design, it…
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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…
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Networking
Sophos UTM Block web traffic for only one host
Within Sophos UTM, as much as I like the product and have enjoyed using it in my home lab environment,…
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SQL
SQL 2014 Setup Failed Analysis Services
Recently in building up a SQL 2014 Standard edition VM running on Windows Server 2012 R2, I ran into a…
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Networking
Configure Inter VLAN Routing with Multiple Switches
The question comes up often when talking about inter vlan routing and how this is done with multiple switches in…
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Windows 10
Delete the Recovery partition Windows 10
Recently, in helping a buddy out with his Mac running Parallels and Windows 10 inside there – he was having…
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Virtualization
Check Equalogic SAN hard drives for errors
Many use and love Equalogic SANs in their virtual environments. I wanted to write up a quick post on how…
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Networking
Change the font and color in SuperPutty
Many use putty as their default choice in terminal emulator software and it is probably the defacto standard in programs…
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vSphere 6
vRealize Operations Manager Reset Admin password can’t login
Recently, in working with vRealize Operations Manager, I was prompted to change the admin password while logging into the console. Using the…
