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Hyper-V
Hyper-V Web Client download for Free
Hyper-V is a great virtualization platform allowing organizations to run virtual machines, including Windows Server and Linux, and experience the benefit of containerized workloads with Hyper-V isolated Docker containers. Managing Hyper-V has always been a challenge with the legacy tools…
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home lab
Uptime Kuma Self-hosted application and server monitoring
Monitoring is a critical part of running enterprise IT infrastructure. You need to know when critical services are down, or the underlying infrastructure has issues. Uptime Kuma provides visibility to ups and downs as needed and is a great self-hosted…
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Containers
Docker containers keeps restarting after reboot
If you have started working with Docker containers in your environment, you are undoubtedly seeing the benefits of running containers and the flexibility they bring to your application environment. However, one of the necessary skills when working with containers is…
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Kubernetes
Kubernetes vs. VMware vSphere comparison
So many excellent technologies allow IT admins to solve complex technical problems and businesses to solve business problems in unique and innovative ways. VMware vSphere has long been around as the de facto standard in enterprise virtualization for decades now…
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Backup Software
NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10.8 GA new features download
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a great solution for enterprise backups and continues to add great new features with each release, including the v10.8 release, now the latest and greatest release from NAKIVO that is now GA. Let’s look at…
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Monitoring
Server Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
Many great free and open-source monitoring solutions are available for monitoring your servers and applications. In case you have not heard about the free and open-source monitoring solution, Prometheus, we will look at the Prometheus node exporter to scrape metrics…
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Software Defined Storage
Hyper-V Virtual SAN synchronization with StarWind Virtual SAN
The StarWind Virtual SAN solution is one of the easiest ways to run software-defined virtual SAN in Hyper-V. It has many great features that were recently updated to provide an even better solution with faster replication. Let’s look at the…
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VMware
VMware Resource Pool vs Cluster Comparison
There are many different constructs as part of the VMware vSphere environment with vCenter Server and ESXi. VMware vSphere provides many excellent capabilities and tools as part of the vSphere cluster resources for critical workloads. Two components in vSphere provide…
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Proxmox
Proxmox scripts PowerShell Ansible and Terraform
Proxmox is growing more and more popular, especially for home lab enthusiasts and those looking to spin up labs based on totally free and open-source software. Proxmox has a great API that allows throwing automation tasks at the solution and…
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Software Defined Storage
Free Virtual Storage Appliance StarWind SAN & NAS new features
In the virtualized environment, we can use many great tools for storage resources. These include virtual storage appliances, especially to attach to running virtual machine instances in the environment, like VMware vSphere. Recently, StarWind released a new version of their…