Automating a Home Lab Windows Server with Chef
In a previous post, Basic Chef Workstation and Server Installation and configuration, we took a look at how to get up and running in a basic sense with a working…
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Brandon Lee is the Senior Writer, Engineer and owner at Virtualizationhowto.com, and a 7-time VMware vExpert, with over two decades of experience in Information Technology. Having worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as in various industries, He has extensive experience in various IT segments and is a strong advocate for open source technologies. Brandon holds many industry certifications, loves the outdoors and spending time with family. Also, he goes through the effort of testing and troubleshooting issues, so you don't have to.
NAKIVO Backup and Replication v7.4 Beta Released Review of New Features
Recently, as we had covered, NAKIVO had announced the upcoming release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7.4 Beta that would include some pretty exciting features including enhancements to granular file…
Basic Chef Workstation and Server Installation and configuration
Automation is perhaps the most exciting and most desirable skill in today’s work of infrastructure operations. Today “infrastructure as code” is a buzzword you here everywhere. If you haven’t started…
Adding Backup Space with Vembu BDR Suite Storage Pools
We all know what a headache it can be when running out of backup storage for a data protection solution. Moving backups around can be a major ordeal. Reconfiguring jobs…
What is VMware Cloud on AWS?
One of the most exciting new offerings from VMware is certainly the VMware Cloud on AWS offering that allows customers to run VMware SDDC on top of AWS infrastructure. If…
VMware vSAN Learning Resources
With the wealth of resources available on the Internet, we all have a ton of learning resources at our fingertips when taking a technology and pulling it apart to see…
Troubleshooting Slow VMware Virtual Machine Power On Time
There comes times when you have a single ESXi host that you wish you didn’t! There are certain times when something that is simply for development or staging that supposedly…
NAKIVO Backup and Replication v7.4 Beta Announced New Features
NAKIVO has announced the upcoming v7.4 Beta release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication that contains some really great new features! NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a powerful backup solution that…
How VMware Backup Uses Snapshots
All who have been vSphere administrators for any amount of time will tell you, snapshots for the most part are evil! However, snapshots play a vital role in most vSphere infrastructures.…
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 1801 New Features and Installation
For those not familiar with System Center Virtual Machine Manager it is part of the System Center Suite and is the tool developed by Microsoft cover management of both private…