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vSphere 6.5
Remove Orphaned VM in VMware vCenter Web Client
Recently, I ran into an issue where I had a VM that was showing as orphaned in vCenter 6.5 web client. The VM was not showing on the host itself when logging in directly. When I right clicked on the…
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Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016 DNS Policy Deny Subnet Access to Zone
In the previous post, Controlling Home Lab DNS Resolution with Windows Server 2016, we looked briefly at the benefits of running Windows Server 2016 DNS server in a home lab environment and why you would want to do that. Looking a…
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home lab
Controlling Home Lab DNS Resolution with Windows Server 2016
Let’s face it, DNS is critical everywhere. Even in our home labs, DNS plays a major role in many services we may want or need to run as it does in production. At first, many in home labs may tend…
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Networking
Use Meraki MX Security Appliance to throttle bandwidth
As I detailed in a previous post, I was able to get my hands on a Meraki security appliance for home lab use. I am still liking the performance and cloud integrated features of the Meraki platform and the ease…
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Computers
Nakivo Backup and Replication V7 Announced Adds Hyper-V Support
Nakivo Backup and Replication V7 Announced Adds Hyper-V Support – Nakivo who is known for rock solid and cutting edge VMware and Amazon EC2 backups has extended their offering to include Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization platform. The Hyper-V backup capabilities use…
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Hyper-V
Add Local Storage in Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
One of the tasks you may need to accomplish when working with a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V host is adding local storage to the host. Often, VMs will be housed on a volume that is separate from the operating system…
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Hyper-V
Copy ISO file to Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
For those coming from the VMware world of doing things and wanting to get their feet wet with Hyper-V, one of the nagging little things that you might run into when first trying to deploy a VM with Hyper-V is…
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Backup Software
How to Verify VM Backups with Nakivo
It can’t be stressed enough with backing up virtual environments, how important it is to verify your backups. You can easily do that with Nakivo Backup and Replication verify backups with screenshots. What better way to verify your backups than to…
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Networking
Copper 10g Twinax cables not linking
Most by now are running 10g network connections at least in the core network or especially in virtualization environments with top of rack switches aggregating network traffic from ESXi hosts. I ran into an issue recently with copper 10g twinax…
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home lab
Monitoring Home Lab Network like Production
Most of us die hard geeks are running home labs as part of the never ending learning process AND because, well, we LIKE doing it enough, we want to tinker around with technology at home. With that being said, to…
