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NSX-T
VMware vRealize Network Insight Install Guide
If you have a VMware NSX-powered softwared-defined networking infrastructure, you have an incredibly capable platform for delivering next generation networking for your environment. However, understanding how your traffic flows, having vsibiility to the ins and outs of your now “abstracted”…
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NSX-T
VMware NSX Layer 7 Firewall Features
Since VMware NSX-T 2.4, VMware has introduced the ability with NSX to be able to pinpoint application identity, FQDN and URL whitelisting and provides the identity based firewall. All of these features of NSX-T since 2.4 take the platform to…
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VMware
Backup Virtual Machines with Shared Multi-Writer Disks
There are several different use cases for using a multi-writer disk on a virtual machine. I have used these for a number of different reasons. You can take a look at my post here of how to provision a “poor…
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Software Defined Storage
Cluster Configuration Mistakes to Avoid
Any type of production infrastructure is generally designed in such a way so as to guarantee high-availability and resiliency. With most types of production systems, you never want to have all your “eggs in one basket” so to speak. You…
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Windows 10
Windows 10 v2004 recover deleted files with Windows File Recovery App
Have you ever deleted a file that you did not mean to delete? Are you like me and often use the SHIFT+DEL function to bypass deleting to the recycle bin? Without restoring from a backup or going back to restore…
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Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019 Remote Desktop Services without Domain
What if you have a need for running Windows Server 2019 as a remote desktop services server but you are not running a domain? If your Windows Server 2019 server is in a workgroup in an edge environment possibly and…
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vSphere 7
What is VMware vSphere 7 Assignable Hardware?
VMware has introduced some serious innovation with VMware vSphere 7 across the board. One of the new features that I think is extremely powerful that isn’t getting the same attention as some of the other fetaures is the new VMware…
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vSphere 7
Apply New ESXi 7.0 updates with vSphere Lifecycle Manager vLCM
If you are like me you have been waiting for updates to be released for ESXi 7 so you could try out the vSphere Lifecycle Manager vLCM tool to apply those updates to your ESXi 7 vSphere cluster. The new…
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Security
Easy Windows Server Just In Time Administration JIT
One of the core pillars of good security with Windows Server is role-based access and least privilege access to resources in your environment. One of the newer buzzwords with security related to your Windows Server environment is called Just in…
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vSphere 7
What is vSphere Lifecycle Manager vLCM?
You may have noticed that one of the major new features with the VMware vSphere 7 release was the vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM). It is a great new tool that provides a new declarative model in keeping your hosts in…
