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Powershell
Migrate from Powershell ISE to Visual Studio Code
Most that code in PowerShell are most likely familiar with the PowerShell ISE. The Powershell ISE has been included since PowerShell 2.0 and definitely was/has been the go to tool for editing and writing Powershell code. If you are like…
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VMware
VMware DRS Fling graphical visibility tool
I had seen just a day or so ago via a tweet by @DuncanYB that a new fling was released giving us a graphical interface to see DRS data from vCenter – very cool! I wanted to give it a…
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Computers
StarWind Two Node VMware Hyperconverged VSAN
If you have not heard about StartWind Virtual SAN, it is a highly scalable and powerful virtual SAN solution that allows for a two node hyperconverged configuration for multiple Hypervisor configurations. StarWind VSAN allows you to take internal storage whether…
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Backup Software
PowerShell Compare VM inventory with Veeam Backup Jobs
If you run Veeam Backup & Replication in your environment and you have many VMs in your VMware vSphere inventory and you want to audit to make sure you have corresponding Veeam Backup jobs in place for those VMs, we…
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Computers
Deploy Netwrix Auditor Virtual Appliance
Netwrix Auditor is a great tool for automating the auditing of your Infrastructure. It is highly capable and audits just about any type of environment that you can think of including Windows Servers, VMware environments, SQL server, etc. Recently, they…
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home lab
VMware LSI SAS vs PVSCSI vs NVMe Controller Performance
With all of the different variations of virtual controllers now available in VMware, I wanted to perform a simple test of disk performance benchmarks when using all three controllers on the same virtual machine to see if the controllers performed…
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VDI
Praim Agile a Secure Mobile Interface for VDI and workstations
Managing thin clients as well as Windows workstations can be a challenge in itself. However, customizing the user interface so that it is streamlined and optimized for access to enterprise cloud resources is an additional challenge. What if you don’t…
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Windows Server 2016
Add iSCSI Shared Storage in Windows Server 2016
If you are configuring a Windows Server 2016 Failover cluster or you are building a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V cluster, you will need shared storage so that either the file or virtual machine resources don’t live on local storage which…
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Powershell
Automate Veeam Restores Using PowerShell
One of the powerful things that Veeam offers is the ability to use PowerShell to both backup and restore virtual machines. This makes for great ways to automate tasks either backups or restores, or even other jobs via the PowerShell…
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VMware
Installing Avago LSI StorCLI VMware ESXi
In our previous post on how to update Avago SMIS provider in VMware ESXi, we discussed how to upgrade your Avago/LSI SMIS provider that allows you to interact with your Avago/LSI card with the Avago Storage Manager utility. However, may…
