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home lab
Home Assistant Docker Compose Design Decisions: Networking, Storage, Backups
If you have been wanting to get into Home Assistant, it is a growing ecosystem that is fun and exciting. And, if you already have a home lab environment, which most of the readers here…
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Virtualization
Create isolated test environment same ips and subnet with VMware
Recently, I had the need to setup a test/development environment that met the requirements of being able to keep the…
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Virtualization
AppAssure export to free ESXi version error
For those of you out there using AppAssure as your backup and restore mechanism in your server environment, you may…
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Deduplication Real World Test
Having been running Windows Server 2012 R2 in many environments for quite some time now, I still as of yet…
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Computers
Sophos UTM configuration for Obi
For those of you running the Sophos UTM appliance and who are interested in running an Obi device behind your…
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Security
How to configure Port Forwarding in Sophos UTM
There was a question in the comments on a recent blog post on how to configure port forwarding in Sophos UTM.…
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VMware
Updating VMware Operations Manager vApp
Recently with all of the bug fixes and security updates coming out from VMware and others due to Ghost vulnerability,…
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Virtualization
VMware announces vSphere 6, vSAN 6
Below are notes I took during yesterday’s announcement from VMware in their live event: Vmware’s Announcement for Software defined Datacenter…
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VOIP
OBiON softphone Busy Signal Fix
Recently, I purchased an Obi200 VOIP device for home. I have to say that I have been thoroughly impressed with…
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Virtualization
How to upgrade VMware Operations Manager VM Tools
In rolling out the latest vCenter and ESXi host updates that have come about in the last couple of days,…
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Virtualization
Updating VMware vCenter Appliance 5.5 to 5.5 Update 2d
For smaller environments the vCenter Server appliance is a great and easy way to get up and running with vCenter.…
