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Hardware
New Surface Pro 2017 Review
So for a while now, I have been looking at replacing an aging road warrior laptop that has been showing its age recently. I have been flirting with the idea of replacing it with a two-in-one and have eyed the…
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Storage
Create ScaleIO Volume ESXi datastore
Recently, we took a look at deploying ScaleIO in a VMware vSphere 6 environment. With the 2.0.1.3 release, vSphere 6.5 is supported. In the previous post, we only looked at the process of deploying the ScaleIO environment including the SDC…
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vSphere 6.5
Change Paravirtual to NVMe virtual storage controller in vSphere 6.5
With each new release of vSphere we have had storage performance improvements. The virtual storage controllers that are presented to a virtual machine can impact the performance of those VMs greatly. New to vSphere 6.5, we have the availability of…
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Networking
Create Veeam Isolated Sandbox Virtual Lab
I have written several posts on how to created an Isolated lab environment using the same IP addresses or overlapping subnets. This requires some network trickery to pull off to make the routing work correctly. Veeam has functionality in the…
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VMware
Audit VMware vSphere changes with Netwrix Auditor
Auditing is one of those challenging areas in IT that has always been a sore thumb subject to most administrators. Auditing has traditionally not been an easy thing to do. Sure it is easy to enable all the audit switches…
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Backup Software
Veeam Windows Agent not showing backup repository
Just a quick post on a little issue I saw with configuring a new Veeam Windows Agent 2.0 workstation pointing to a Veeam Repository. When configuring the backup, the repository that I wanted to select was not listed in the…
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NSX
VMUG VMware vRNI bundled with NSX offering
As we had posted a while back, VMUG Advantage Evalexperience had seriously sweetened the already sweet deal of the Advantage subscription by adding in VMware NSX to the mix. This was the real major remaining piece to round out the…
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Software Defined Storage
Install ScaleIO 2.0 in VMware vSphere 6
In talking about software defined storage, most are familiar with VMware vSAN. However, there is another extremely powerful SDS solution available for free from EMC called StorageIO. StorageIO is free in the context of a lab or development environment. Otherwise…
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VMware PowerCLI
Install VMware Pester PowerCLI Configuration Management
PowerShell can do so many cool things for us not just from an automation standpoint but also from a configuration management standpoint. I wanted to help give some visibility to a great bit of PowerShell PowerCLI code called Vester that…
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VDI
Automate and Repurpose Old PCs into Thin Client VDI
In many enterprise environments that may have aging desktop hardware and who are looking to transition to a VDI solution for end users, there are often difficult fiscal decisions that come to light when thinking of replacing hardware across the…
