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System Center
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 1801 New Features and Installation
For those not familiar with System Center Virtual Machine Manager it is part of the System Center Suite and is the tool developed by Microsoft cover management of both private clouds and public clouds in Azure. So, we can say…
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Powershell
Installing PowerShell Core PowerCLI 10.0 in Windows 10
Microsoft has taken PowerShell to the next level in its GA release of PowerShell Core. What is PowerShell Core? It is the cross-platform version of PowerShell that is based on .NET Core which is open source as opposed to the…
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vSAN
Configuring Veeam Virtual Appliance Mode for VMware vSAN
When backing up VMware vSAN, data protection solutions can still take advantage of VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection as they do backing up virtual machines from any type of VMware storage as it is storage agnostic. There are…
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home lab
Asus XG-C100C 10G NIC Windows Server 2016 VLANs Jumbo Frames
Moving to 10 gig in the home lab environment, can potentially be an expensive undertaking. Ten gig hasn’t really come down as dramatically as all of us would have hoped, but things are getting better. If you are looking for…
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VMware
Opvizor VMware Performance Analyzer 4.8.0 Released New Features
Monitoring performance and health in a VMware vSphere environment is a critical task for vSphere administrators. Especially in larger environments, it can be a real challenge to keep a handle on overall vSphere environment health. Then there are other concerns…
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Web
Easy Way to Replace or Install Apache Tomcat SSL Certificate
In working with a client recently, I was tasked with replacing an SSL certificate in Apache Tomcat, specifically for a JIRA install. If you have ever done this before, you know that it can be a royal PITA as there…
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VMware Monitoring
ControlUp VMware Performance and Health Monitoring
Quickly and easily finding issues within an environment, especially virtualized environments can be a challenge. Having the right utilities and tools can be extremely helpful in finding potential hotspots and having visibility to important KPIs within the environment. Today I…
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Cloud Software
How to Choose the Best CASB
With the tremendous cybersecurity threats present in the world today, organizations are certainly focusing their attention on how IT resources and their data can be protected. This is especially true with organizations who have resources that are located in the…
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vVOLs
VMware VVol Testing with Dell EMC Unity VSA
Recently, I saw a post from Eric Siebert that got me to thinking again about VVols. Eric gives a good explanantion of why we haven’t seen this technology take off more than we have over the past couple of years.…
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VMware
Runecast Analyzer 1.7 vSAN Support Visualization Improvements and New Web Plugins
When it comes to supporting, maintaining, and operationalizing a VMware vSphere environment, everything needs to be carried out in accordance with best practices. VMware is the expert of their own product for obvious reasons and following what they document as…
