virtual machine
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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.ย It has certainly matured over the past few versions of the hypervisor and is getting more powerful from the standpoint of…
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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 isn’t production, but management may view it as production and…
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vSphere 6.5
Hytrust VMware Virtual Machine Encryption
As we have covered in previous posts, VMware virtual machine encryption requires an external key manager.ย There has been work done to allow testing this feature out by way of a cool docker container key manager.ย However for those really…
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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.ย This would include excluding any files that may be unnecessary to include in backups…
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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 have the inclusion of Endpoint agents. With vRealize Operations Manager…
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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. ย In looking at task manager when troubleshooting severe slowdowns in the…
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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. ย The nice things about replication in the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor world is that there is no appliance to have to setup or…
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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. ย Local SQL authentication succeeds if you login remotely via SQL Server Management Studio. ย However, using SSMS, the login…
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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. ย The VM was relatively clean with only Windows updates installed, AV, and a couple of small…
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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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