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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…
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VMware PowerCLI
PowerCLI Mass Clone and Rename VMware VMs from One vCenter Folder to Another
Automation is king of IT operations today. It is extremely cool and rather fun to be able to hack out a few lines of PowerShell or PowerCLI code in the vSphere realm and perform massive operations that would possibly take…
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Horizon View
VMware Horizon 7.8 Released with New Features
VMware has been on an extremely agressive release cycle with their End User Computing technology, better known as VMware Horizon over the course of the past several months. Just a few days ago VMware Horizon 7.8 was released with many…
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Security
Top Security Threats and Responses in 2019 and Ahead
There is no shortage of security concerns in the world of technology today. It seems like there are news headlines almost every week of data breaches, ransomware infections, and other security-related events. As we look ahead in 2019 and where…
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vExpert
VMware vExpert Program – Honored to be Selected
This year I wanted to create a blog post highlighting the VMware vExpert program and was on my list of goals for last year but didn’t get it done. I am very honored to be selected this year for the…
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Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019 Storage Spaces Direct Backups with Vembu BDR Suite
Windows Server 2019 Storage Spaces Direct represents the latest and greatest software-defined storage solution from Microsoft that can be used with Hyper-V for true software-defined storage backed virtual machines. We have covered the benefits found in Windows Server 2019 Storage…
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vSphere 6.7
VMware vSAN 6.7 Update 1 Unable to Update Release Catalog Error
In the home lab, I have noticed recently an ongoing warning with the vSAN release catalog up-to-date check. The VMware vSAN release catalog provides information to vSAN build recommendation engine that play an integral part in the health of the…
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Apps
Monitoring VMware vSphere Infrastructure with Paessler PRTG
Monitoring an environment is one of the most complex tasks that administrators are tasked with doing in an environment. Today’s VMware vSphere administrators may have multiple hosts, vCenter Servers, switches, storae arrays, network connections, and many other things that need…
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NSX-T
Deploy VMware NSX-T 2.4 Edge Transport Appliance VM
More VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.4 fun! Working through deploying NSX-T 2.4 in the home lab and stepping through the various functional components of getting the lab up and running with NSX-T Data Center 2.4. After working through a few…
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Service-Defined Firewall
What Is VMware Service-Defined Firewall Released?
Security is perhaps one of the most talked about and exciting areas of IT operations today as it is constantly evolving and making use of new technologies to stop the “bad guys” from compromising business-critical systems and data. With the…
