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Security
New Intel Vulnerability Foreshadow L1 Terminal Fault VMware Affected
Yet another security vulnerability has been discovered that is based on the Spectre and Meltdown attacks found in Intel processors. The new exploit is called Foreshadow and exploits Intel’s SGX technology which is ironically designed to protect sensitive data such…
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Hyper-V
Windows Admin Center Preview 1808 Hyper-V Cluster and VM Management New Features
With the recent release of Windows Admin Center Preview 1808, there have been some really additions to this particular build. With Windows Admin Center Preview 1808, Hyper-V management has certainly gotten better for both Hyper-V hosts and Hyper-V hosts in…
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VMware
VMware vSphere ESXi Storage Performance Troubleshooting
Recently, I was troubleshooting an issue with a production VMware vSphere cluster that was presenting with severe performance issues across the board. After triaging the symptoms of the performance issue it pointed to storage as being the culprit for the…
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Windows Containers
Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Containers
Containers are certainly all the rage in the world of virtualization and are the next evolution in how businesses deploy and host applications and perform development. Containers offer several advantages over full blown virtual machines when it comes to efficiency,…
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Storage
FreeNAS iSCSI Configuration for MPIO
In the last post, Hyper-V Cluster MPIO iSCSI installation and configuration, we looked at configuring MPIO multi-pathing on a Hyper-V host connected to iSCSI storage. In a home lab environment, you may want to play around with iSCSI storage for…
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Hyper-V
Hyper-V Cluster MPIO iSCSI Installation and Configuration
When configuring storage for Windows Server Hyper-V clusters with SAN storage, you always want to make sure you have multiple paths to your storage for redundancy and performance. With SAN storage and iSCSI you won’t want to utilize link aggregation…
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VMware
VMware NSX Best Practices with Runecast Analyzer v1.8
Gaining best practice expertise is often limited to reading through various documentation, piecing together information gained from support calls, reading books, watching various tech videos, and just the plain old adage “from experience”. However, the list for that process for…
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Site Recovery Manager
Installing VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager SRM 8.1
One of the exiting recent announcements from VMUG was the addition of VMware’s Site Recovery Manager for vSphere being added to the catalog of downloable software for VMUG Advantage Subscribers. Since the announcement, among other things going on in the…
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Backup Software
NAKIVO Backup and Replication v7.5 Released with vSphere 6.7 and Cross-Platform Support
Having an all inclusive data protection solution that has the enterprise capabilities needed to protect an organization with their various disaster recovery needs is crucial for meeting service level agreements for organizations today. Additionally, dataprotection solutions must keep pace with…
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Backup Software
Hyper-V Instant VM Recovery with NAKIVO Backup and Replication
One of the key metrics that organizations look at when deciding upon SLAs during a diaster recovery event is the RTO, or the amount of time the organization is ok to operate without business-critical data. For the backup administrator this…
