testing
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vSphere 6.5
New VMware vSphere 6.5 HTML5 Web Client Features with Fling
VMware is showing great commitment to the development of the new HTML5 web client and are quickly releasing new features and functionality. How can you use the new HTML5 web client features and functionality before they make it into the…
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Powershell
Automate Veeam Restores Using PowerShell
One of the powerful things that Veeam offers is the ability to use PowerShell to both backup and restore virtual machines. ย This makes for great ways to automate tasks either backups or restores, or even other jobs via the PowerShell…
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Networking
Create Veeam Isolated Sandbox Virtual Lab
I have written several posts on how to created an Isolated lab environment using the same IP addresses or overlapping subnets. This requires some network trickery to pull off to make the routing work correctly. Veeam has functionality in the…
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VMware PowerCLI
Install VMware Pester PowerCLI Configuration Management
PowerShell can do so many cool things for us not just from an automation standpoint but also from a configuration management standpoint. ย I wanted to help give some visibility to a great bit of PowerShell PowerCLI code called Vester that…
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Virtualization
Zerto basic setup and configuration
Zerto is a great product that allows for a DR solution that has extremely low RPO times and ease of not only failover but ALSO failback, which is a sore point in many other DR solutions – how do you…
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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 see how the storage savings would be shown after turning…