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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…
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Backup Software
Vembu Quick VM Recovery Ensures Business Continuity with Minimal Downtime
When disaster strikes and business operations are interrupted by either software or infrastructure failure, the RTO (recovery time objective) or quite simply “how long does it take to recover?” time is crucial. Vembu BDR Suite provides a complete approach to…
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Backup Software
Export Nakivo Backup and Replication configuration to another appliance
In looking at backup technologies available for virtual infrastructures today, Nakivo Backup and Replication is a leader and definitely one to watch in 2017 – tons of options and features! One of the great features provided in the NBR interface is an easy…
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Backup Software
Veeam Restore Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Objects
When thinking about DR, Active Directory backup and restoration is CRITICAL! Period! If you can restore all of your important SQL servers, Sharepoint, Exchange, exactly as they were in production at the block level, but cannot start services because AD…
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Software
Great Free Linux Load Balancer
If you are looking to play around with load balancing for free, then check out the Kemp LoadMaster virtual Appliance. The Kemp virtual appliance is a great free Linux Load Balancer that is extremely easy to setup, versatile, and offers…
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Networking
GNS3 Beta Packet Capture between QEMU devices
One of the cool things that you can do with GNS3 is packet captures between devices. However, if you are using QEMU (Quick Emulator) Cisco image devices, the current stable release of GNS3 does not support packet captures with QEMU…
