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Powershell
Powershell script signing the easy way
So I wanted to throw a quick blog post out there on Powershell script signing the easy way. This is a little bit tongue and cheek on the post as I don’t want to detail how to sign powershell scripts…
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VMware
ESXi 6 Configure Management Network Greyed out
The other day when playing around “rather hard” with distributed switches and NSX, I broke my distributed switch implementation on one of my lab ESXi 6 hosts. I couldn’t ping the host, and also even worse, couldn’t get to the…
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Virtualization
Veeam Big Announcement today
There was a Veeam Big Announcement today or actually quite a few large announcements about their product portfolio which extends their presence in the Virtualization backup field as well as extends into new territory for them – more on this…
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Virtualization
Stretch isolated network between multiple ESXi servers
Setting up testing networks and lab networks have been very interesting to me the past few weeks. When you are setting up Dev and Staging environments, the requirements may be to have multiple copies of production environments properly segmented and functioning…
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Virtualization
Install EqualLogic Multipath Extension Module MEM in VMware ESXi
VMware vSphere provides the ability to leverage Pluggable Storage Architecture or PSA that enables using multipathing for HA as well as increased performance. This allows for third party plugins for multipathing with enhanced functionality for specific vendor hardware and storage…
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home lab
How to flash Avago LSI RAID controller firmware with boot disk
In working on provisioning a new Supermicro lab server that is outfitted with an Avago LSI 9380-4i4e SAS RAID controller, one of the first tasks I wanted to complete was flashing the firmware to the latest version. There are a…
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Virtualization
Upgrading Veeam Backup and Replication 9.0 update 2
Veeam recently released 9.0 Update 2 of their Backup & Replication product. This is a pretty major release as it contains over 300 improvements and product enhancements. The list is quite extensive, but below is the Release notes straight from…
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Virtualization
ESXi 6.0 Install Can’t Have a Partition Outside the disk
This past week in working with a Supermicro lab host filled with 12 4TB drives, I ran into an issue with the ESXi 6.0 installer that was a bit peculiar – Can’t have a partition outside the disk. The storage…
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Security
Untangle 12.1 Review and Impressions
So virtual firewalls and appliances are all the rage these days and there are many options to choose from. Historically, I have used a variety of different firewall/UTM platforms. I have always been a fan of the Untangle product as…
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Networking
How to Configure Untangle site to site VPN
In working on a DR project utilizing two Untangle virtual appliances, I had the need to setup a site to site VPN connection between the Untangle firewalls. The OpenVPN documentation is fairly decent on the Untangle site, however, the information…
