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home lab
Veeam NFR Licenses for Home Labs
For most of us running home labs, having access to actual fully featured production software is a great way to increase skills and familiarize ourselves with software used in the industry. Veeam has certainly taken great strides to empower those…
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VMware
What is VMware Storage vMotion and How It Works
One of many hypnotic appeals to leveraging virtual infrastructure is the ability to move workloads around without any downtime. This is certainly true with the VMware vMotion operation that hooked most of us on virtualization the first time we were…
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VMware
Change Boot Drive to NVMe Storage Controller in VMware Workstation 14
As with ESXi 6.5, VMware Workstation 14 has introduced support for the new NVMe storage controller. The new NVMe storage controller allows ones to take advantage of the ultra fast NVMe backed datastores afforded by today’s NVMe drives. If you…
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Backup Software
Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 3 Released New Features
Just a couple of days ago Veeam announced the official release of Veeam Backup & Replicaton 9.5 Update 3 to everyone after giving it a few weeks with MSPs and other service providers. They are touting Update 3 as the…
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VMware
Opvizor Performance Analyzer VMware Performance Monitoring
Monitoring your vSphere environment at the cluster, host, or virtual machine level is key in understanding where performance bottlenecks may exist and why production workloads may not be performing adequately. In addition, monitoring certain vSphere metrics can also help to…
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vSphere 6.5
Hytrust VMware Virtual Machine Encryption
As we have covered in previous posts, VMware virtual machine encryption requires an external key manager. There has been work done to allow testing this feature out by way of a cool docker container key manager. However for those really…
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Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016 Security Features and Hardening
There is no doubt about it that Windows Server 2016 is Microsoft’s most powerful server operating system. If you have been waiting on reasons to upgrade server infrastructure to Server 2016, security may be among the top reasons why you…
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VMware
Tools to Improve Virtual Machine Performance
One of the key areas that a VMware virtualization administrator must key in on with his or her vSphere environment is performance. After all if the production workloads running in the virtualized environment are not running with adequate performance, problems…
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Networking
Setup Multiple Gateways and Multiple Internet Connections One Host
These days, most organizations have multiple circuits and connectivity for egress traffic outside the core network environment. There may be certain use cases where a host needs to have connectivity to multiple gateways or ISPs for different network connections. In…
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Backup Software
Monitor Veeam Backups with Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
protection solution providing disaster recovery in the case of a true disaster event. If you are using Veeam Backup & Replication and especially multiple Veeam Backup & Replication servers, it can be difficult to keep track of jobs, job statuses,…
