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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…
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home lab
Installing and Configuring Palo Alto PA220 Home Lab Firewall
I have been running a new Palo Alto PA-220 on a TAP interface mirroring my WAN traffic coming into the home lab and loving the visibility to applications that I didn’t have with my previous firewall. Palo certainly gives you…
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Cloud Software
Spinbackup for Office 365 Beta Released Backup and Disaster Recovery Features
Moving from on-prem to public cloud brings tremendous benefits to organizations in terms of being able to scale quickly, carry on development in an agile fashion, and have access to some of the most powerful datacenters and application platforms in…
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vSAN
Move VMware vSAN 6.7 Stretched Cluster to Different vCenter Server
In my home lab I have had several projects going on that have been slowly taking place over the past few weeks. One of those projects was getting my “prodution” vSphere vSAN cluster upgraded to vSphere 6.7 across the board…
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VDI
Praim Agile4PC vs ThinOX4PC VDI Thin Client Management and Configuration
When it comes to being able to control, administer, and configure thin client devices, Praim’s suite of products brings powerful management features and capabilities to the table. Praim has a powerful line of tools and solutions that give organizations and…
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Hyper-V
VMware vs Hyper-V Nested Virtualization
Nested virtualization provides tremendous value for virtualization administrators whether running in VMware or now with Hyper-V environments running Windows Server 2016 as base for the Hyper-V role. Nested virtualization brings to the table many benefits including hypervisor hosted containers, dev/test…
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home lab
VMware Site Recovery Manager SRM added to VMUG Advantage
I am all about learning products and technologies. Technologists however need access to products to become proficient in using them. I have covered the VMUG program in many previous blog posts here on VHT and have stated many times that…
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Backup Software
Hyper-V Cluster High Availability Features Design and Backups
One of the key benefits of modern virtual environments powered by today’s hypervisors is high availability. Virtualization has allowed for a powerful abstraction from the underlying physical hardware that allows production workloads to be mobile. This opens up powerful advantages…
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Backup Software
Throttle Network Backup Traffic with NAKIVO Bandwidth Throttling
Network bandwidth is one of the more expensive aspects of today’s enterprise datacenter. Especially is that the case when talking about WAN bandwidth. WAN links are still relatively expensive, even with prices of bandwidth coming down in the last couple…
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Networking
Monitor Network Traffic with Port Mirror and TAP Port with Palo Alto
Recently, I added a cool piece of networking gear to the home lab environment – a Palo Alo PA-220 next generation firewall. I have always been a fan of Palo Alto firewalls as the integration and nextgen capabilities they offer…
