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Kubernetes
K3s dashboard install and configuration
The K3s lightweight Kubernetes distribution is a great Kubernetes distribution across many different use cases. I have been using K3s in the home lab for various purposes. How can you get a K3s dashboard up and running once you have…
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Kubernetes
Install K3s on Ubuntu with K3D in Docker
Are you making the transition to Kubernetes in your learning path? If you haven’t taken the plunge as of yet, there are many great learning tools available for learning Kubernetes and spinning up a K8s cluster quickly and easily. I…
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Tanzu
vSphere Integrated Containers vs Tanzu
When it comes to running containers on VMware infrastructure, many options are available. If you have been around VMware technologies for some time now, undoubtedly, you have heard about vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC). However, VMware has recently introduced the VMware…
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Containers
How to install Portainer on Ubuntu 22.04 and Upgrade existing installations
If you haven’t heard about Portainer, you need to. It is a great GUI tool that allows installing, configuring, and managing your containers and is much easier to do than using the command line. If you have been following my…
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Automation
Packer Build Ubuntu 22.04 for VMware vSphere
Yesterday, Ubuntu released the latest in the line of LTS versions of Ubuntu Server and Workstation. Ubuntu 22.04 is a great release featuring many new features and enhancements to the Ubuntu family of operating systems. If you are like me,…
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Backup Software
BDRSuite v5.2 Released with New Features
Backups, data protection, and modern capabilities to protect data across multiple environments are becoming increasingly important. Data is at the heart of everything businesses are doing today. Data protection vendors have been challenged to keep pace with the backup needs…
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Backup Software
The Most Common Causes of Data Loss – How to Protect Against Them
Data is arguably the single most important resource of a business. Today’s organizations are amassing massive amounts of data, both on-premises and in the public cloud. Protecting your data assets becomes paramount. It is good to review common causes of…
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HCX
VMware HCX appliances installation and configuration
One of the tremendously powerful capabilities VMware is giving businesses today is an abstraction layer from various cloud environments, allowing you to run workloads anywhere. It is known as a “mobility platform.” We will discuss further what capabilities are offered…
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Workstation
VMware Workstation VLAN Tagging Configuration
If you use VMware Workstation for your home lab or daily DevOps and other purposes, you may want to have the ability to have different VMware Workstation VMs reside on different VLANs. This functionality allows placing different VMs on different…
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Backup Software
NVMe-oF RAID Data Protection in StarWind Backup Appliance
As organizations look to protect their data, backups are the core central component of any good disaster recovery strategy. However, while having backups is critical, they have to be restored to realize their value. Long, drawn-out recovery times can devastate…
