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Networking
Configure Inter VLAN Routing with Multiple Switches
The question comes up often when talking about inter vlan routing and how this is done with multiple switches in a production environment. Many examples only show inter vlan routing with a single switch. The concept for multiple switches really…
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Windows 10
Delete the Recovery partition Windows 10
Recently, in helping a buddy out with his Mac running Parallels and Windows 10 inside there – he was having an issue where he had added space to his OS drive. He had added raw space to the VM itself,…
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Virtualization
Check Equalogic SAN hard drives for errors
Many use and love Equalogic SANs in their virtual environments. I wanted to write up a quick post on how to see if any of your hard drives inside your Equalogic have experienced or are experiencing drive errors. This can…
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Networking
Change the font and color in SuperPutty
Many use putty as their default choice in terminal emulator software and it is probably the defacto standard in programs used to connect to routers, switches, and other network devices. If you know and love putty, most likely you have…
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vSphere 6
vRealize Operations Manager Reset Admin password can’t login
Recently, in working with vRealize Operations Manager, I was prompted to change the admin password while logging into the console. Using the prompts at the console of the vApp, I was able to successfully set the password. However, after that point, access…
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vSphere 6
Connecting to Virtual Center server is not supported by this client
Lately, I have been trying to get my Windows 10 VM up and running with a lot of the management tools that I use on a daily basis. After loaded the vSphere client from one of my ESXi hosts, I…
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Windows 10
Windows 10 Edge can’t be opened using the built-in administrator account
With the release of Windows 10 today, many are spinning up VMs and loading the new workstation on test boxes to take a look at the final build version. If you are like me, one of the first things I…
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Networking
Home Lab Create a DMZ VLAN
A really cool fun project I have been wanting to take on at home for a while now is to create a DMZ environment using my Cisco SG300-20 switch, VLANs, inter vlan routing, ACLs, and VGT or VST. If you…
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Networking
Dell NSeries Switch Basic configuration cheat sheet
In working recently with a few Dell NSeries switches on the bench and in production, I have created a simple cheat sheet for myself with configuration commands I find myself needing most in tweaking and configuring the Dell switches. I…
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Security
Configure Sophos UTM to work with Filezilla FTP Server
If you are running Sophos UTM at home and would like to use FileZilla FTP server, there are a few things that you need to setup to allow FTP communication with your internal server. My internal server at home is…
