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Tag: virtual machine

Creating High Availability Hyper-V Virtual Machines
Hyper-V

Creating High Availability Hyper-V Virtual Machines

Windows Server Hyper-V provides a solid platform for organizations looking to virtualize production workloads on a Windows hypervisor platform.  It has certainly matured over the past few versions of the…

by Brandon LeeJuly 3, 2018December 18, 2023
Troubleshooting Slow VMware Virtual Machine Power On Time
VMware

Troubleshooting Slow VMware Virtual Machine Power On Time

There comes times when you have a single ESXi host that you wish you didn’t! There are certain times when something that is simply for development or staging that supposedly…

by Brandon LeeMarch 13, 2018January 11, 2021
Hytrust VMware Virtual Machine Encryption
vSphere 6.5

Hytrust VMware Virtual Machine Encryption

As we have covered in previous posts, VMware virtual machine encryption requires an external key manager.  There has been work done to allow testing this feature out by way of…

by Brandon LeeDecember 18, 2017December 1, 2023
How Excluding Page File Affects VM backup
Backup Software

How Excluding Page File Affects VM backup

When thinking about making backups as efficient and timely as possible to decrease backup time windows, our backup solution needs to be as efficient as possible.  This would include excluding…

by Brandon LeeJuly 26, 2017January 11, 2021
Install vRealize Operations Manager 6.6 Endpoint Agent
vSphere 6.5

Install vRealize Operations Manager 6.6 Endpoint Agent

Recently, VMware released vRealize Operations Manager 6.6 which has incorporated the beautiful HTML5 interface that we have partially functional with vCenter 6.5. Additonally starting in vRealize Operations Manager 6.1, we…

by Brandon LeeJuly 18, 2017February 5, 2024
Windows 10 VM 99 percent disk utilization performance issue
Windows 10

Windows 10 VM 99 percent disk utilization performance issue

In troubleshooting a recent performance issue in my home lab environment on a couple of Windows 10 VMs that I had running, I had a peculiar issue that arose.  In…

by Brandon LeeMay 24, 2017January 11, 2021
Setup Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V VM Replication
Hyper-V

Setup Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V VM Replication

Setting up Hyper-V replication allows you to replicate a virtual machine from one Hyper-V environment over to another.  The nice things about replication in the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor world is…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 10, 2017January 11, 2021
SQL Server local SQL authentication error logged in locally
SQL

SQL Server local SQL authentication error logged in locally

Guys, so I have run into a really weird situation with a development SQL Server local SQL authentication error logged in locally.  Local SQL authentication succeeds if you login remotely…

by Brandon LeeMarch 13, 2015January 11, 2021
SQL 2014 Setup there was an error generating XML document
SQL

SQL 2014 Setup there was an error generating XML document

A couple of days ago, a fellow colleague was setting up a VM with SQL and then Microsoft Dynamics or that was the plan.  The VM was relatively clean with…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 28, 2015
Installing a LEMP server with WordPress and Google Pagespeed
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…

by Brandon LeeOctober 7, 2014October 7, 2014

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