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home lab
Create Samsung NVMe SSD RMA Return Request Online
As I had recorded in a previous blog post, I had a Samsung EVO 960 cache drive fail in my home lab VMware vSAN cluster. Since the drive was still well within warranty, I wanted to see if I could…
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Security
Create Dynamic Firewall Rules Based on MineMeld Threat Feeds
Some time ago I posted an article covering the installation of MineMeld which is a community driven threat feed project that was released to the community by Palo Alto. The product is an extremely cool appliance that allows aggregated various…
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VMware
Scan VMware Horizon for Issues or Errors using Runecast Analyzer Beta
Following a vendor’s best practices in any environment can be difficult. Simply trying to figure out what the best practices are can in itself be challenging. This often requires filtering through a mountain of documentation and other resources provided by…
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Backup Software
NAKIVO Backup and Replication v8.1 Released GA with New Features
The end of the year has certainly turned out to be an active one for data protection providers. This is a space in the industry that is always full of excitement and energy. Finding new and improved ways to protect…
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Backup Software
Vembu BDR Suite v4.0 Released GA Installation and New Features
Back in the early part of November of this year, I covered a pre-release version of Vembu BDR Suite v4.0, entitled, Backup and Protect Hyper-V Clusters with Vembu BDR Suite v4.0. The newest version of Vembu BDR Suite has powerful…
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VMware Cloud on AWS
Amazon AWS Outposts to Run AWS and VMware Cloud on AWS On-premises
It seems that no matter what revolution in technology takes place, things always seem to make a full circle. As of a few years ago, the race was on to get to the cloud as quickly as possible. However, in…
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vSAN
Replacing VMware vSAN Cache Disk and Resyncing vSAN Objects
In the previous post, VMware vSAN Home Lab Hardware Failure and Resiliency, I covered my first hardware failure in my vSAN home lab environment. The environment has been up and running now for around a year on an all flash,…
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vSAN
VMware vSAN Home Lab Hardware Failure and Resiliency
Lab Gopher is a great tool to find home lab hardware
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Networking
Physical Device Microsegmentation with Extreme Networks Policy
One of the powerful security mechanisms that we hear about in today’s infrastructure is microsegmentation. Microsegementation is talked about a lot with VMware NSX and other software-defined network technologies that are on the market. VMware NSX is extremely powerful and provides…
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VDI
Manage and Configure Raspberry Pi Citrix VDI thin clients with Praim Agile4Pi
Raspberry PI devices have become increasingly popular among enthusiasts and enterprises alike. They are increasingly seen used in various use cases, all the way from home projects or appliances to enterprise appliances that are used in production. The are an…
