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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
Lightweight DNS Server for VMware Lab
For those of you who are building and working with your own VMware labs and using either physical home lab…
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vSphere 6
FreeNAS Change IP Address on iSCSI target VMware ESXi 6
FreeNAS is one of the easiest and coolest virtual SAN appliances out there for use with VMware and other Hypervisor…
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Virtualization
VMTurbo Free Virtual Environment Monitoring and Operations Management
Many may be looking for free virtual environment monitoring and operations management. There is a great solution out there in…
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Security
Installing MS15-034 Reboot Required
With the recent security alert concerning the “bluescreen of death” bug in Windows IIS servers from II7 and higher being…
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vSphere 6
How to update an ESXi 6.0 host from commandline
The process of updating an ESXi 6.0 host from commandline is a very painless operation. Especially if you have a standalone host…
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vSphere 6
Upgrade VMware PowerCLI 5.8 to 6.0
If you are into automating tasks in your VMware environment, there is no better way to do those tasks than…
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Security
Setup RDP Two Factor Authentication with Duo Security
Remote desktop servers that are sitting out in DMZ’s or just forward facing RDP enabled servers are security risks at…
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SQL
OLE DB provider SQLNCLI11 for linked server unable to begin distributed transaction
Today in working with a new virtual machine that was spun up with Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server…
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Networking
Good VMware Home Lab Switch
Recently, I was looking to snag a really good VMware home lab switch for a couple of hosts and shared storage…
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SQL
Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster SQL 2012 SSL configuration
A project recently had me working on Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster SQL 2012 SSL configuration for an international company who…
