Installing and Configuring Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS
I have been starting to spin up a few new little Linux appliances for the home lab to service a few one off services and utilities. Typically for these types…
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Basic Chef Workstation and Server Installation and configuration
Automation is perhaps the most exciting and most desirable skill in today’s work of infrastructure operations. Today “infrastructure as code” is a buzzword you here everywhere. If you haven’t started…
Install Veeam 9.5 Backup and Replication Remote Console with PowerShell Snapin
Installing Veeam Backup & Replication Console remotely is a great way to have the Veeam Console tools available on an administrative workstation where one does not have to login to…
SQL Cluster computer account could not be configured
In working on an older Microsoft SQL Cluster server configuration recently, I ran into an issue with a lab copy of the SQL Cluster not bringing the SQL resources online…
How to Configure Untangle site to site VPN
In working on a DR project utilizing two Untangle virtual appliances, I had the need to setup a site to site VPN connection between the Untangle firewalls. Â The OpenVPN documentation…
Updating vCenter VCSA and update manager to 6.0 U1b
Recently VMware released the U1b release of vSphere products. Â I wanted to post some quick notes and steps used to update a vCenter 6.0 U1a release to U1b revision level.…
Lightweight DNS Server for VMware Lab
For those of you who are building and working with your own VMware labs and using either physical home lab hardware or maybe using VMware workstation to setup your nested…
Windows Server 2012 R2 Deduplication Real World Test
Having been running Windows Server 2012 R2 in many environments for quite some time now, I still as of yet haven’t had a real world test of data deduplication to…
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…
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. Â The following simple…