performance
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Backup Software
Configure Veeam Backup and Replication for optimal performance
When setting up Veeam Backup and Replication there are a few settings that you want to tweak. The default settings out of the box aren’t really setup optimally for your Proxy as well as the Backup repository. These are simple…
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vSphere 6
How to tweak performance ESXi 6.0
We might not think about tweaking of the ESXi hosts themselves for performance. While there are other major areas of performance consideration in a vSphere cluster such as your storage IOPs, memory, and CPU resources, there are a few little…
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Virtualization
How to Upgrade to VMware Workstation 12 Pro
I use VMware workstation daily in my work environment for segmenting administrative traffic from Internet browsing, as well as to test new OS’es and other configuration lab work. I have been using Workstation 11 for quite some time now and…
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Virtualization
VMware announces vSphere 6, vSAN 6
Below are notes I took during yesterday’s announcement from VMware in their live event: Vmware’s Announcement for Software defined Datacenter – OneCloud Four components: • vSphere • Network • Virtualized storage • Hybrid cloud It enables you to transform your…
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Web
Installing a LEMP server with WordPress and Google Pagespeed
If you are looking to host a webserver and want a really reliable, stable platform that has excellent performance, a LEMP server using the latest flavor of Ubuntu – 14.04 along with Nginx and Google Pagespeed is hard to beat.…
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Servers
SQL Server Firewall and performance tweaks
Everyone, I wanted to pass along a few Windows firewall tweaks that I have found useful with building a SQL server on Windows 2008 server or higher. The following simple tweaks can really help with issues you may see involving…
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Wordpress
Improve wordpress performance mobile devices logged in user
In working with a client on performance issues with their wordpress powered website on iPads they were using to beta test, one strange thing became apparent, there was some correlation to a user being logged into the site and the…
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Android
ATT Samsung Galaxy S4 I337UCUAMF3 firmware review
Recently, as most SGS4 owners already know, their respective carriers have been rolling out updates to the SGS4. Being with ATT, I of course was interested in receiving the MF3 update as it has many proposed performance and other enhancements,…
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Windows
How to Tune Performance in IIS 7.5
In running sites via Microsoft’s IIS Server platform, it becomes necessary from time to time to adjust performance settings to compensate for high load or other demands on the server running IIS server. IIS 7 is closely tied in with…
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Troubleshooting
Using Resource Monitor to troubleshoot performance problems
We are all familiar with tools such as TaskManager to troubleshoot performance issues on our Windows PCs and workstations. However, there is an often underutilized built-in tool in Windows that provides valuable information that is very useful in troubleshooting performance…
