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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…
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NSX
What is VMware vRNI and How to Install
With the recent announcement from VMUG that the NSX offering includes VMware vRNI, you may be asking yourself if you are a VMUG subscriber – What is VMware vRNI? VMware NSX is a powerful SDN solution that has been transforming…
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VMware
Update Avago LSI SMIS Provider VMware ESXi
If you are running an Avago/LSI RAID controller card in a VMware host, Avago has an SMIS provider that can be installed on the host that allows you to connect a remote Storage Manager utility to the server and interact…
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Backup Software
Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.2 Beta Announced New Features
Yet again exciting news from Nakivo today as they made an announcement concerning the Beta release of Nakivo Backup & Replication 7.2. It looks to include many new and highly anticipated features that have been eagerly anticipated in the product.…
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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…
