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Networking
How to Upgrade Dell Nseries Firmware
A quick post on how to upgrade Dell Nseries Firmware and the process involved. What you will need is a TFTP utility of your choice running on the network as well as the latest firmware file for your Nseries switch,…
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home lab
How to flash Avago LSI RAID controller firmware with boot disk
In working on provisioning a new Supermicro lab server that is outfitted with an Avago LSI 9380-4i4e SAS RAID controller, one of the first tasks I wanted to complete was flashing the firmware to the latest version. There are a…
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Virtualization
Upgrading Veeam Backup and Replication 9.0 update 2
Veeam recently released 9.0 Update 2 of their Backup & Replication product. This is a pretty major release as it contains over 300 improvements and product enhancements. The list is quite extensive, but below is the Release notes straight from…
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Virtualization
P2V Windows Cluster Rapid Recovery
The last few days I have been involved with a project to P2V an old Windows 2003 (yes cringe, bang head against wall now) cluster running SQL 2005. The P2V is simply a stop gap solution to get the cluster…
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Networking
Cisco VIRL 1.1.1 Upgrade
Well after running Cisco VIRL for a while it has definitely grown on me and with each release it gets better. I have been meaning to upgrade to the latest version that was announced/released just a few days ago –…
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vSphere 6
Upgrade VMware vRealize Operations Manager vROPs 6.2
In rolling through quite a few upgrades recently, I wanted to posted some screenshots and process notes of upgrading vROPs 6.0.2 I had running in my environment to 6.2. The process is fairly standardized with VMware’s appliances and for the…
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vSphere 6
Update manager Upgrade VMware ESXi 6.0 update 2
Below are the simple and easy steps to get your ESXi 6.0 u1 or earlier installation to update 2 (3620759) version. Using update manager the process is very simple. Make sure before updating your hosts that you have updated your…
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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
Upgrade VMTurbo to version 5.2
VMTurbo is a great free product out there that is designed to help you monitor your virtual environment free! Recently, they have released version 5.2. The process to update is very easy, but I wanted to show you guys the…
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vSphere 6
Upgrading Windows vCenter Server and Update Manager 5.5 to 6.0
The upgrade process to get from the Windows version of vCenter Server 5.5 and Update Manager 5.5 to 6.0 is very straightforward. The installer in my case worked flawlessly and had no issues running the install wizard and getting the…
