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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 ESXi 5.5 Dell Server cluster to ESXi 6 with VUM
In the post today I would like to go through the process to update a Dell ESXi 5.5 cluster to…
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Virtualization
Upgrade VMTurbo to version 5.2
VMTurbo is a great free product out there that is designed to help you monitor your virtual environment free! Recently,…
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Web
How to block ports with Cloudflare
If you are utilizing Cloudflare as a reverse proxy service for your backend webserver, you may desire to have Cloudflare…
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vSphere 6
Upgrading Windows vCenter Server and Update Manager 5.5 to 6.0
The upgrade process to get from the Windows version of vCenter Server 5.5 and Update Manager 5.5 to 6.0 is…
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Networking
Cisco SG300-20 basic configuration for VMware Lab
Cisco’s line of small business fully managed switches I think are really great for learning Cisco networking as well as…
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Windows Server 2016
Windows Server Technical Preview 2 Soft Reboot
One of the highly anticipated features of the next Server OS from Microsoft is the soft reboot feature which allows for a…
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Windows Server 2016
Windows Server Technical Preview 2 No GUI
For those of you like me who jumped on the opportunity to snag a copy of the new Server Technical…
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Hyper-V
Installing and managing Hyper-V in VMware Workstation 11
If you want to use VMware workstation to play around with Hyper-V or create a Hyper-V lab, this is fairly…
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Security
Sophos false positive C2/Generic-A alerts
I wanted to put this out there to you guys and see if anyone else had a round of Sophos…
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vSphere 6
Lab Deploy VCSA with Embedded Platform Services Controller
In building my most recent VMware lab inside of VMware workstation, I wanted to deploy the VCSA 6.0 with Embedded…
