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home lab
Checkmate Monitoring for Free Open Source Docker Solution for Uptime Monitoring
I am always on the lookout for great new open-source tools for monitoring and management in the home lab and in production environments. I am a huge fan of Uptime Kuma as a monitoring solution,…
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Windows Server 2022
Download and Install Windows ADK for Windows Server 2022
The Windows ADK is the goto tool used to deploy and manage images in Windows clients and Server. As each…
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Software Defined Storage
Add NAS to VMware ESXi with StarWind SAN & NAS Free
Recently StarWind release a totally free SAN and NAS appliance that allows quickly spinning up a storage appliance based on…
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Windows 10
Install Winget 1.0 Windows 10 and upgrade all software
Have you found yourself spending lots of time trying to keep your software on a management workstation up-to-date? If you…
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home lab
Copy VMware Workstation VM to ESXi: Home Lab
When it comes to building your first home lab, there is nothing wrong with starting out with VMware Workstation. Realistically,…
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VMware Tools
ESXi VMware Tools Update Guide
VMware tools provide a tightly integrated and fluid experience between the guest virtual machines and the VMware ESXi host. With…
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VMware
How to Manage VMware Snapshots: A Guide
They can be one of the best features in a VMware vSphere environment, or perhaps the worst, depending on how…
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Windows 10
OpenSSH Server Windows 10 Install with Public Key authentication
Remote connectivity to your Windows Servers is a prime capability that is required by administrators to be able to control,…
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Software Defined Storage
StarWind VSAN ZFS and Linux VSA
There is no question that software-defined storage (SDS) is the way of the future. Traditional storage is not well-suited for…
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Automation
Find Guest OS Type ID using PowerCLI
Have you needed to find the Guest OS type IDs that are used in Terraform or other automation in provisioning…
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VMware
See which VMs were powered on before ESXi host went down
Have you been in a situation before where you had a standalone host go down, maybe a lab host, and…