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VMware
VMware vSphere HA VM and Application Monitoring
VMware vSphere High Availability provides many different mechanisms to help ensure the availabilty of your virtual machines, and by extension your applications. More are familiar with the capabilites of vSphere HA at the cluster level with an ESXi host failure,…
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VMware
VMware vCenter Server Security Best Practices
There is no question that vCenter Server is at the core of importance when it comes to VMware vSphere environments. The vCenter Server is the centralized management plane for administering the vSphere environment and is the component that unlocks much…
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Windows 10
Get Windows 10 November 2019 Build Early
One of the cool things about the current Windows 10 release strategy is the ability to get the “preview” builds early and essentially be a beta tester for Microsoft if you like that kind of thing. If you like living…
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NSX-T
VMware NSX-T Performance Tips and Tuning
NSX-T is VMware’s virtual networking solution moving forward that is hypervisor agnostic and not specifically tied to VMware vSphere. If you are looking at moving to NSX-T as your network “hypervisor”, there are certain tweaks and hardware features that you…
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Automation
Automate Windows Server 2019 Core Installation and Deployment
As detailed in the previous post yesterday, Windows Server 2019 Core edition is gaining momentum among customers as the go to Windows edition for installation in their environments. Due to great new tools and extensions such as Windows Admin Center…
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Windows Admin Center
Managing Windows Server 2019 Core with Windows Admin Center
Recently, a blog post from Microsoft caught my attention as the discussion was around the adoption of Window Server 2019 Core edition. Microsoft detailed in this post that Windows Server 2019 Core edition has the fastest adoption rate of any…
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Backup Software
Vembu BDR Suite Free Edition Unlimited Features 10 VMs
If you are running virtualized environments, which most organizations are, you certainly want to be running data protection to protect your business critical workloads running as VMs in your infrastructure. Vembu is a great choice for protecting virtualized environments, including…
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Software
Setup an Automated FTP Solution to Move Files
Recently I worked with a client who was going to be sending EDI files back and forth between a couple of sites. They wanted to do this with an FTP solution by standing up two FTP servers with encryption between…
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VMware
Network Best Practices for vSphere HA High Availability Clusters
One of the basic features that is built into the VMware vSphere solution when virtualizing your workloads on top of a vSphere cluster is high-availability. In fact, VMware HA is found at the Essentials Plus license level and higher. If…
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VMware
VMware ESXi Commandline Get CPU and Memory Information
There are times with your virtual infrastructure running on top of VMware vSphere that you need to gather information about the physical servers you are running on. Have you ever wanted to know the details about CPU, memory, or other…
