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Networking
How to View Network Connections in Linux with IFTOP
There are a myriad of network utilities in both the Windows and Linux world. If you are working with a Linux distribution and you are needing to view network connections being made to and from your Linux server, there is…
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Automation
Automating a Home Lab Windows Server with Chef
In a previous post, Basic Chef Workstation and Server Installation and configuration, we took a look at how to get up and running in a basic sense with a working Chef server as well as a management workstation running the…
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Backup Software
NAKIVO Backup and Replication v7.4 Beta Released Review of New Features
Recently, as we had covered, NAKIVO had announced the upcoming release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7.4 Beta that would include some pretty exciting features including enhancements to granular file restores as well as replication network mapping automation. NAKIVO announced…
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Automation
Basic Chef Workstation and Server Installation and configuration
Automation is perhaps the most exciting and most desirable skill in today’s work of infrastructure operations. Today “infrastructure as code” is a buzzword you here everywhere. If you haven’t started working on your automation skills, now is the time to…
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Backup Software
Adding Backup Space with Vembu BDR Suite Storage Pools
We all know what a headache it can be when running out of backup storage for a data protection solution. Moving backups around can be a major ordeal. Reconfiguring jobs can also be tremendously management intensive as well as and…
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VMware Cloud on AWS
What is VMware Cloud on AWS?
One of the most exciting new offerings from VMware is certainly the VMware Cloud on AWS offering that allows customers to run VMware SDDC on top of AWS infrastructure. If you have heard about this new offering from VMware and…
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vSAN
VMware vSAN Learning Resources
With the wealth of resources available on the Internet, we all have a ton of learning resources at our fingertips when taking a technology and pulling it apart to see how it works and learn how to administer and operationalize…
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VMware
Troubleshooting Slow VMware Virtual Machine Power On Time
There comes times when you have a single ESXi host that you wish you didn’t! There are certain times when something that is simply for development or staging that supposedly isn’t production, but management may view it as production and…
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Backup Software
NAKIVO Backup and Replication v7.4 Beta Announced New Features
NAKIVO has announced the upcoming v7.4 Beta release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication that contains some really great new features! NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a powerful backup solution that allows you to deploy an appliance and be up and…
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VMware
How VMware Backup Uses Snapshots
All who have been vSphere administrators for any amount of time will tell you, snapshots for the most part are evil! However, snapshots play a vital role in most vSphere infrastructures. When using them as designed and in a way that…
