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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. ย In aย recent post Stretch VLANs across routers L2TPv3, weย 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. ย 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. ย 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. ย Of course, when thinking about how you are going to make your lab accessible from the Internet, we always have to think…
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Virtualization
Upgrade firmware Equallogic multiple member group
I put together just a few notes after going through a recent project of an upgrade firmware Equallogic multiple member group. ย Essentially the process is the same as upgrading a single member, except that you need to pay a bit…
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Software
Remote Desktop Connection Manager Replacement
I don’t typically write up a lot of posts about admin software unless I find something that I feel is truly worthy of letting others know about. ย As many of you do, I use a lot of different utilities day…
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home lab
Windows cannot be installed to this disk 4K drives
With the recent SuperMicro server build, I am utilizing Seagateย ST8000NM0065 drives. ย High density 4K drives are starting to come of age, however, there are still a few tricks required to get OS’es installed to boot from 4K. ย Starting with Windows…
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home lab
Mount Virtual Media SuperMicro IPMI
In the previous post here, I walked through the SuperMicro IPMI management interface and a few of the options that are available to administrators there for management of their SuperMicro server. ย One of the more interesting options in the IPMI…
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home lab
Supermicro IPMI management walkthrough
If you are utilizing Supermicro in your lab environment, there is a great feature that comes with Supermicro boards that allows BMC IPMI management of the server. ย It is basically an out of band management of the server much like…
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Security
Add Cloudflare IPs Amazon EC2 Security Group
If you are utilizing Cloudflare as your DNS/CDN provider for your website and you are utilizing an Amazon EC2 instance as your host, let’s take a quick look at the topic – how toย add cloudflare ips amazon EC2 security Group.…