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Windows 10

Brandon LeeMay 24, 2017
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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 looking at task manager when troubleshooting severe slowdowns in the…
Hyper-V

Brandon LeeFebruary 10, 2017
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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 that there is no appliance to have to setup or…
Networking

Brandon LeeNovember 8, 2016
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Setup GNS3 VM VMware ESXi

GNS3 has definitely matured as a product and offers tremendous functionality especially if you look at the cross vendor platform support that it offers. I definitely prefer the interface of GNS3 over other products such as VIRL. VIRL is maturing…
Azure

Brandon LeeOctober 25, 2016
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Setup Azure Linux Public Key Authentication

In working with Linux VMs in Azure, there are a couple of ways to setup authentication. One being standard password authentication, and the other is Public Key Autentication. With Public Key Authentication, a key pair is generated. The public key…
SQL

Brandon LeeMarch 13, 2015
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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 via SQL Server Management Studio. However, using SSMS, the login…
Web

Brandon LeeOctober 7, 2014
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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.…
Software

Brandon LeeSeptember 29, 2014
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Bare Metal Restore VM using AppAssure

Using AppAssure, there are a couple of different ways that a VM can potentially be restored. You can use both the Restore method or the Export process within the software to successfully bare metal restore a VMware VM back to the environment. The first…