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.…
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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.
Monitoring Home Lab Network like Production
Most of us die hard geeks are running home labs as part of the never ending learning process AND because, well, we LIKE doing it enough, we want to tinker…
Vembu Quick VM Recovery Ensures Business Continuity with Minimal Downtime
When disaster strikes and business operations are interrupted by either software or infrastructure failure, the RTO (recovery time objective) or quite simply “how long does it take to recover?” time…
Export Nakivo Backup and Replication configuration to another appliance
In looking at backup technologies available for virtual infrastructures today, Nakivo Backup and Replication is a leader and definitely one to watch in 2017 – tons of options and features! One of…
Veeam Restore Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Objects
When thinking about DR, Active Directory backup and restoration is CRITICAL! Period! If you can restore all of your important SQL servers, Sharepoint, Exchange, exactly as they were in production…
Great Free Linux Load Balancer
If you are looking to play around with load balancing for free, then check out the Kemp LoadMaster virtual Appliance. The Kemp virtual appliance is a great free Linux Load…
GNS3 Beta Packet Capture between QEMU devices
One of the cool things that you can do with GNS3 is packet captures between devices. However, if you are using QEMU (Quick Emulator) Cisco image devices, the current stable…
Cisco Meraki Security Appliance Review
Recently, I have been looking to revamp my home lab network with something a little more power and newer technology. I have been running the Sophos UTM x86 product for…
Configure Splunk for Meraki MX
In looking at firewall upgrades for home lab and network, I have been taking a look at a variety of firewalls. Recently, I was able to get my hands on a…
VMware ESXi 6.5 Can’t Add Existing iSCSI LUN
In playing around with adding an existing iSCSI LUN to a new VMware ESXi 6.5 host in a lab environment, I ran into a peculiar issue adding the storage to…