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Automation
Getting Started with Packer and VMware vSphere
Automation is the key to success in today’s fast paced world of hybrid infrastructure. Gone are the days of spending hours or days on build processes and infrastructure engineers holding up any part of the development pipeline. Today’s world of…
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vSphere 6.7
VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 2 Announced New Features
There have certainly been rumblings in the works for the past little while. While vSphere 6.7 Update 1 was a milestone release, VMware is making news again today with vSphere 6.7 Update 2 release of vSphere. There are some very…
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Backup Software
Protect Hyper-V Cluster VMs with NAKIVO Backups
Besides running production workloads inside of Hyper-V clusters, an important consideration for businesses utilizing Hyper-V is being able to properly protect Hyper-V workloads running inside of Hyper-V environments. For a backup solution to properly protect Hyper-V, it needs to be…
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Azure
Installing and Connecting PowerShell Az Module with Microsoft Azure
Interacting with Microsoft Azure is certainly achievable with the Azure portal, however, perhaps one of the huge advantages and features of cloud environment such as Microsoft Azure is the ability to interact programmatically with all aspects of the cloud. Microsoft’s…
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Apps
Devolutions Wayk Now Free Remote Access Tool
I am constantly looking at new tools that can be used either in the home lab, clients, or enterprise environments. I have been using a really great tool for the past couple of years now from a company called Devolutions…
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Software
Export and Import a Single Bookmarks Folder from Chrome
This is a post that I hope others benefit from that comes from one of those pesky issues that we all run into from time to time. It is an issue that when you face it, you think – “why…
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Horizon View
Upgrade VMware Horizon Agent to 7.8
Continuing to work through the home lab Horizon environment to get things up to Horizon 7.8 so wanted to create a few more quick tidbits of the upgrade process. Today I worked on upgrading my master Windows 10 VM for…
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vSphere 6.7
Select Multiple Patch Baselines in vSphere 6.7 Update 1 HTML 5 vSphere Client
All of us vSphere admins love the new vSphere Client HTML 5 interface. In fact this is probably the most anticipated reason to upgrade an environment to vSphere 6.7 Update 1, since you get the fully-featured client that now has…
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Horizon View
Upgrading to Horizon 7.8 Connection Server
Just a few days ago VMware released Horizon 7.8 with a ton of great new benefits including more features being added to the Horizon Console which is he new modern HTML5 interface for administering Horizon View. VMware certainly has as…
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home lab
New Server Network Rack for Home Virtualization Lab Environment
One of the side projects that I have been working on in the past few days has been migrating away from my old style “bread rack” for the home lab over to a proper server/network rack that consolidates everything, is…
