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ActiveDirectory
Troubleshooting Domain Join Issues
Have you ever had one of those situations where you could not get a workstation or server to join the domain? I had this happen recently and wanted to detail a few of the steps I used to troubleshoot and…
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Windows
Set Audit Policy Powershell
Scripting mundane setup tasks is essential in today’s world of server/workstation provisioning in the fast paced Virtualization environments we as system administrators manage. If you are like me, you may have googled “set audit policy powershell” to find a quick…
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Networking
Create LACP LAG between Extreme and Enterasys switches
A late breaking project I was involved with recently with a client was adding 10G port count to an environment that had simply outgrown the number of 10G ports that were being used. Another ESXi host was being added to scale…
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Networking
Cisco Meraki MR18 install review
I was excited recently to get my hands on a Cisco Meraki MR18 and wanted to share with you all some thoughts and opinions of the product after having installed, configured, and worked with it for a few days. The…
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Virtualization
P2V Linux server network config
I wanted to write up a quick post of a few hurdles I went through with P2V’ing a linux web server that was also running cPanel. The P2V process worked as expected, however upon the first boot of the VM,…
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Virtualization
Nakivo Backup & Replication v6.0 Install and Impressions
These days there are quite a few backup and replication products on the market for the virtual environments that may be considered when choosing a way to protect critical VMs and data. However, there are a few that set themselves apart…
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Virtualization
Installing Rapid Recovery agent Linux
If you are using Rapid Recovery in your environment, you will most likely have a Linux box that you would like to add to your protected servers at some point. Recently I added a Linux box to Rapid Recovery and…
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VMware
Troubleshooting VMware VCSA 6 disk space issues
Over the past weekend, I noticed via alerts that there were issues connecting to my vCenter environment. I have seen some false positives before with the alerts and vCenter connectivity, so I wasn’t too concerned at first. However, upon just…
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VMware
PowerCLI change network label for all VMs in a folder
Just a quick blurb and a useful one liner used to change all the Network labels for all virtual machines that existed in a vCenter folder. I had a situation in a lab where I imported numerous server VMs from…
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Virtualization
Altaro VM Backup Install and configuration
Lately, I have been doing a lot of testing with backup software and other POC’s related to DR plans, backups, replications, etc. With that said, I stumbled onto and pulled down a copy of the Altaro VM Backup software to…
