Windows Server 2016 Lower Forest and Domain Functional Level
In my home lab environment, I had the need to change the functional levels of my forest and domain to do some testing work with Exchange 2010. I was running…
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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.
Remove Orphaned VM in VMware vCenter Web Client
Recently, I ran into an issue where I had a VM that was showing as orphaned in vCenter 6.5 web client. The VM was not showing on the host itself…
Windows Server 2016 DNS Policy Deny Subnet Access to Zone
In the previous post, Controlling Home Lab DNS Resolution with Windows Server 2016, we looked briefly at the benefits of running Windows Server 2016 DNS server in a home lab environment…
Controlling Home Lab DNS Resolution with Windows Server 2016
Let’s face it, DNS is critical everywhere. Even in our home labs, DNS plays a major role in many services we may want or need to run as it does…
Use Meraki MX Security Appliance to throttle bandwidth
As I detailed in a previous post, I was able to get my hands on a Meraki security appliance for home lab use. I am still liking the performance and…
Nakivo Backup and Replication V7 Announced Adds Hyper-V Support
Nakivo Backup and Replication V7 Announced Adds Hyper-V Support – Nakivo who is known for rock solid and cutting edge VMware and Amazon EC2 backups has extended their offering to…
Add Local Storage in Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
One of the tasks you may need to accomplish when working with a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V host is adding local storage to the host. Often, VMs will be housed…
Copy ISO file to Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
For those coming from the VMware world of doing things and wanting to get their feet wet with Hyper-V, one of the nagging little things that you might run into…
How to Verify VM Backups with Nakivo
It can’t be stressed enough with backing up virtual environments, how important it is to verify your backups. You can easily do that with Nakivo Backup and Replication verify backups with…
Copper 10g Twinax cables not linking
Most by now are running 10g network connections at least in the core network or especially in virtualization environments with top of rack switches aggregating network traffic from ESXi hosts.…