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home lab
5 Proxmox Projects to Level Up Your Home Lab This Weekend
I am a huge advocate of project-based learning and I think a little extra time on the weekend if you have a few minutes or a couple of hours in the home lab can pay…
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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…
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Windows
Backup DNS Windows Server 2016 2019 and 2022
DNS or Domain Naming System is the heart of everything we do, on the LAN, and on the Internet. It…
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Hyper-V
Hyper-V Critical remote code execution vulnerability in May 2021 patch Tuesday
The past few months from a security perspective have been a roller coaster of zero-day vulnerabilities and critical patches that…
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Windows
Windows Server DHCP VLAN Configuration: Detailed Guide
Network segmentation is a great way to compartmentalize the various networks you need to run in your environment. This provides…
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Windows Server 2022
Upgrade Windows Server 2019 Active Directory to Windows Server 2022
Windows Server Active Directory upgrades are a part of administering Windows Server Active Directory infrastructure on-premises. Currently, businesses may have…
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Automation
Packer Build Ubuntu 21.04 for VMware vSphere
If you aren’t already using Hashicorp Packer for automating builds of the various operating systems you use in your environment,…
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Software Defined Storage
StarWind HCI Evaluation Kit Released: Config Walkthrough
It is not often that you can fully try out an entire solution from a vendor in your own lab…
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Automation
Terraform vSphere tutorial: Linux Virtual Machine Clone
Terraform is a great infrastructure as code (IaC) platform that allows easily spinning up and customizing infrastructure. The great thing…
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Windows Server 2022
New Windows Server 2022 Container Image Preview Install
Just a few days ago, Microsoft released news of the new Windows Server 2022 base OS container image preview. It…
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vSphere 7
Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) for ESXi 7.0 Update 2a Upgrade
VMware vSphere 7 Update 2 contains many great enhancements that I have written about here. Since Update 2 was pulled…
