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Networking
Palo Alto VM Series Basic Interface and Routes configuration in ESXi
It is now easier than ever to try out a Palo Alto VM series firewall in your home lab environment if you are running VMware vSphere or KVM. Palo Alto now offers a 30-day trial of the VM series firewall…
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Networking
Deploy pfSense VMware step-by-step
One of the things I like to play around with in the home lab is firewalls and various firewall configurations that I work with in production environments. Arguably the most popular open-source firewall solution deployed today is pfSense. The pfSense…
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Azure
Jumpstart ArcBox for Azure Arc Lab and Demo
Most organizations today are deploying cloud resources, including in Microsoft Azure. However, for many organizations, a fully cloud-native environment is simply not possible due to compliance or other reasons. A hybrid approach is an approach most businesses are taking. Consolidating…
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DevOps
JIRA Upgrade JIRA Core Self-managed Server
Most of you are no strangers to JIRA. It is arguably the most popular Agile project management solution adopted worldwide. Like most companies, Atlassian is pushing everyone to the cloud. The self-managed JIRA Server offering is deprecated and will no…
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NSX-T
Identity Based Firewall configuration with NSX-T and vSphere
For years now, organizations have based application access and access to resources and files on identity. Typically, this is based on memberships to groups in Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS). We have all seen this in the corporate environment…
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Windows Server 2022
Cloud Storage Windows Server 2022 and Azure File Sync
Most businesses today are looking at some type of cloud storage to go along with on-premises enterprise storage on their Windows Servers. Windows Server 2022 is the most advanced Windows Server to date with a wide range of hybrid cloud…
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NSX-T
vSphere NSX-T installation and configuration
VMware NSX-T has certainly been rapidly maturing and has become an extremely robust and fully featured solution that transcends the VMware-only ecosystem to be a cloud software-defined networking solution for the masses. However, many customers running NSX-T will be running…
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home lab
Virtual firewall vs Physical firewall in the home lab
So, in thinking about the direction of where my home lab is headed, I find myself using less and less discrete physical devices as opposed to running things as virtual machines. As a topic of interest for my home lab…
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Amazon AWS
Recover AWS EC2 SSH key lost or corrupted
Maybe you have been there before with an AWS EC2 instance and your SSH key no longer works. You may wonder, how is this possible? How am I going to regain access to the instance? Don’t panic, there is actually…
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Azure
How to Access Azure VM from outside
When it comes to architecting cloud IaaS environments, one of the issues that always comes to the forefront after standing up infrastructure is access. How do engineers, developers, contractors, and others access environments from the outside? The first tendency of…
