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Security
Cisco Meraki Security Appliance Review
Recently, I have been looking to revamp my home lab network with something a little more power and newer technology. I have been running the Sophos UTM x86 product for this purpose for a couple of years now and it…
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Security
Configure Splunk for Meraki MX
In looking at firewall upgrades for home lab and network, I have been taking a look at a variety of firewalls. Recently, I was able to get my hands on a Meraki MX64 to try out. Just a note here, I…
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VMware
VMware ESXi 6.5 Can’t Add Existing iSCSI LUN
In playing around with adding an existing iSCSI LUN to a new VMware ESXi 6.5 host in a lab environment, I ran into a peculiar issue adding the storage to the server. In thoroughly checking everything back over, I didn’t…
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Backup Software
Veeam Linux Agent Installation and Configuration
Today, Veeam released the Linux agent for physical Linux workloads running in your environment. This helps to bridge the gap that you may have had before with using Veeam as a backup product for your virtual infrastructure and using something…
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vSphere 6.5
How to Create VMFS 6 Datastore in VMware vSphere 6.5
With all of the new storage enhancements that come with vSphere 6.5 using 4K aligned drives and the new unmap feature, you need to use a VMFS 6 formatted datastore. How do you create a VMFS 6 datastore? Let’s take…
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vSphere 6.5
VMware ESXi 6.5 4k Drive Support
One of the new features and functionality that is probably getting overlooked with the other great functionality that is out in vSphere 6.5, is VMware ESXi 6.5 4k 512e drive support. Let’s take a look at some of the details of…
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vSphere 6.5
How to Configure VMware VCSA 6.5 HA
One of the many exciting new features of the VCSA 6.5 appliance is the builtin ability for high availability or HA out of the box. The HA configuration process creates two additional appliances that are a “passive” node and a…
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vSphere 6.5
VMware vSphere 6.5 new features
VMware vSphere 6.5 has been released now and we are beginning to get our heads around the new functionality and features that are contained in this release. There is no question that the new VCSA 6.5 appliance contains some of…
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Backup Software
Veeam SQL Server 2014 Standard Installation
Veeam uses SQL as the backend for the configuration database. By default, if you choose no other option, the installer will install SQL Server Express 2014 as the backend for your configuration database. One must think about this choice carefully…
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vSphere 6.5
VMware VCSA 6.5 Appliance Restore
In the last post, we covered the process to backup the new VCSA 6.5 appliance. Let’s now take a look at the VMware VCSA 6.5 appliance restore process from the backup file set. As shown in the previous post, the…
