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Windows
Troubleshooting Windows Access Denied Errors
Windows administrators can spend a massive amount of time poring over logs and investigating error messages. Trying to figure out why Windows is throwing certain errors can be frustrating and time consuming. I was reminded of this frustration recently in…
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Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019 Preview 17709 with New Hyper-V Released
For those that have been following the Windows Insider Preview Builds, Windows Server 2019 Preview 17709 has been released as of a couple of days ago. Additionally, this is the first Windows Server 2019 Preview that has the new preview…
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vSAN
Opvizor Performance Analyzer New vSAN 6.7 Performance Analysis
VMware vSAN 6.7 has incredible performance improvements, especially over legacy versions of vSAN. For a VMware administrator, especially with larger environments, keeping a handle on potential performance bottlenecks and other performance hotspots can be challenging. VMware vSAN has already included…
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vSAN
Replace or Change VMware vSAN Witness Host with vSphere 6.7 Appliance
VMware vSan is getting more and more powerful with each and every release. With the introduction of vSphere 6.7 and vSAN 6.7, the HTML5 UI has received more functionality, Windows Failover Clustering is now supported, and all new redeisinged adaptive…
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vSphere 6.7
VMware vSphere 6.7 New Performance Improvements
VMware vSphere 6.7 has certainly been an exciting release. It seems like however, that all VMware releases and announcements are full of new goodies and plenty of things to nerd out on. Recently, I was able to get my “production”…
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vSAN
Monitoring VMware vSAN with vSAN Observer
VMware vSAN is certainly the market leader in software defined storage solutions. VMware vSAN, especially in the new VMware vSAN 6.7 release is a powerful platform that allows organizations to have a powerful software defined approach to managing and provisioning…
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Hyper-V
Creating High Availability Hyper-V Virtual Machines
Windows Server Hyper-V provides a solid platform for organizations looking to virtualize production workloads on a Windows hypervisor platform. It has certainly matured over the past few versions of the hypervisor and is getting more powerful from the standpoint of…
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Backup Software
Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 3a with VMware vSphere 6.7 Support
As is always the case with new versions of VMware vSphere released, the backup vendors are always a bit behind in getting a supported release out the door. This is always a major hindrance among other things to organizations getting…
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vSphere 6.7
Installing VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7 in Ravello Cloud Service
One of the really great benefits of the vExpert program is having free access to many different vendor programs, services, software, and other tools and utilities. One of the benefits that is extended is access to the Oracle Ravello Cloud…
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Backup Software
Verify Hyper-V Backups with NAKIVO Backup and Replication v7.4 Screenshot Verification
Having good backups of production workloads is the cornerstone of disaster recovery. While you can have fancy mechanisms and hardware in place to make sure virtual machines and data are highly available, this still does not protect you from data…
