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Virtualization
Use same domain login for production and lab
Labs are cool right? ย We can use them for many use cases when it comes to testing and proof of concept mock ups. ย If you have been tasked to spin up a copy of your production environment in a lab…
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Virtualization
Veeam the object has already been deleted or has not been completely created
A quick post here of an issue I ran into supporting a Veeam Backup job in a particular environment. ย After needing to restore a handful of VMs to rollback a few bad changes made, the next backup job failed. ย The…
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Virtualization
P2V Windows Cluster Rapid Recovery
The last few days I have been involved with a project to P2V an old Windows 2003 (yes cringe, bang head against wall now) cluster running SQL 2005. ย The P2V is simply a stop gap solution to get the cluster…
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Virtualization
Try Nakivo 6.1 Beta Download
Having used a lot of different backup products over the years in the enterprise and in the home lab environment, there are many qualities of a backup software that become important – functionality, simplicity, and stability. ย You want something that…
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NSX
VMware NSX Domain conflict with 1 existing domain
Recently, I ran into a peculiar issue with VMware NSX trying to add domains for security grouping. ย Through the GUI the process is fairly straightforward. ย However, after adding a domain in testing, removing, and adding again, I ran into an…
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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? ย 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. ย 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 clientย was adding 10G port count to an environment that had simply outgrown the number of 10G ports that were being used. ย 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. ย 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. ย The P2V process worked as expected, however upon the first boot of the VM,…