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Networking
Wireshark 101: The 2025 Beginner’s Guide
If you are like me, when you manage networks, whether in the home lab or production environment, you probably use tools like ping, traceroute, netstat, etc. These are great tools and can help you diagnose…
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Latest articles
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Tools and Utilities
Rufus Alternative for Linux and Windows installing ISOs – Ventoy
Most of you are familiar with the Rufus utility that is a great way to “burn” an ISO to a…
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VMware
iSCSI Synology VMware Configuration step-by-step
One of the lab additions made in the past couple of weeks is a new Synology DS1621xs+ 6-bay NAS device.…
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Raspberry Pi
Pihole Local DNS Records synchronized from Active Directory
If you use Pi-hole in your home network, and you should, the local DNS provided by Pi-hole is a great…
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Proxmox
Nested Proxmox VMware installation in ESXi
In working with clients and different environments, you will definitely see many different hypervisors used across the landscape of enterprise…
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Kubernetes
Kubernetes Bare Metal Load Balancer configuration with Nginx
Creating a new Kubernetes cluster in Portainer
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home lab
Virtualization vs Containerization in 2022 home lab
I have been revisiting many of the infrastructure components and services running in the home lab environment. You can read…
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VMware PowerCLI
VMSA-2022-0001 CD-ROM vulnerability patch workaround and Locked CD-ROM error
Well, closely on the heels of the Log4j vulnerability, we have started 2022 with a new VMSA-2022-0001 released from VMware.…
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VDI
Securing Virtual Workspaces with Praim ThinOX
No longer are the majority of workers driving into the office. The remote workforce has taken shape and is a…
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Automation
VMware Event Broker Appliance VEBA tutorial: How to create an email notification
Among the really cool projects I have stood up in the lab as of recently is the VMware Event Broker…
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Kubernetes
Create Kubernetes Cluster with Rancher and VMware vSphere
How is your Kubernetes journey kicking off in 2022? While Kubernetes is already wildly popular it is feeling more like…
