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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…
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Virtualization
Virtual Extreme EXOS install and configuration
In today’s world of virtual servers and appliances, our network labs and simulations have easily become virtualized as well – case in point GNS3 and Cisco VIRL. Many vendors are supplying virtual appliances to be able to play around and…
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Virtualization
Zerto basic setup and configuration
Zerto is a great product that allows for a DR solution that has extremely low RPO times and ease of not only failover but ALSO failback, which is a sore point in many other DR solutions – how do you…
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Virtualization
Rapid Recovery no longer detects Exchange
I had an issue recently with Rapid Recovery I wanted to detail for you guys in case you run into the same issue. I noticed that Exchange logs were not getting truncated appropriately on the Exchange server. Upon checking Rapid…
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Networking
Stretch layer 2 with OTV
Lately, in looking at different ways to stretch layer 2 with various technologies, I have been proof of concepting various ways to do this in router labs. In a recent post Stretch VLANs across routers L2TPv3, we see how to utilize L2TPv3…
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Security
Get notified of failed Windows login attempts
In tinkering a lot with security and other facets of security and notification lately with Windows workstations and servers, I am a big advocate of notications when it comes to security events that are worth notifying over. I had written…
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Networking
Stretch VLANs across routers L2TPv3
Recently, I have been working a good bit with DR network connectivity and other DR DCI concerns. A typical scenario today has a virtual environment in one Site as production and another virtual environment in another site, Site B, as…
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home lab
Securing RDP access to Home Lab
One of the cool things about having a home lab is being able to reach it from anywhere. Of course, when thinking about how you are going to make your lab accessible from the Internet, we always have to think…
