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Azure Stack HCI
Windows Rebootless Hotpatching coming to on-premises environments
It has often felt like the bane of an IT administrator’s existence – Windows Updates. Patching Windows servers is especially challenging in many ways and can lead to long hours of patching and maintenance periods due to the downtime that…
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Azure Stack HCI
Azure Stack HCI 21H2 Released Download New Features
Recently, at Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft announced Azure Stack HCI 21H2 Released Download New Features and detailed some really nice enhancements. Let’s detail these. What is Azure Stack HCI? In case you haven’t heard of Azure Stack HCI, it is the…
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Security
IntSights Threat Command Tailored Threat Intelligence
Cyberattacks continue to riddle the news it seems on a daily/weekly basis. We constantly hear of the next major ransomware attack or major data leak event. According to an estimate from CybersecurityVentures, ransomware will attack a business in 2021 every…
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vSAN
vSAN Stretched Cluster Enhancements in vSAN 7.0 Update 3 – Simulating Failure!
One of the really nice enhancements of the newest version of vSAN, found in vSphere 7.0 Update 3, has to do with vSAN stretched clusters. VMware vSAN stretched clusters are a configuration that I have blogged about in previous posts.…
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Software Defined Storage
Hyper-V vSAN Equivalent with StarWind VSAN
The Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V HCI space has gone through many evolutions of changes. Microsoft is now going with Azure Stack HCI as their new platform moving forward, even with on-premises virtualization. Azure Stack HCI uses Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)…
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VMware
NUMA Affinity VMware Fling
When it comes down to the nitty-gritty performance details of CPU and memory with a modern hypervisor like VMware vSphere, you no doubt have heard a lot about NUMA, Non-Uniform Memory Access. NUMA is extremely important when you are working…
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Windows Server 2022
VMware Windows Server 2022 Template Best Practices
No doubt in your virtual environment, you may be thinking about getting your Windows Server 2022 template configured for use now that Windows Server 2022 is GA. Windows Server 2019 still has mainstream support until 2024. However, using the latest…
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Project Capitola
What is VMware Project Capitola?
One of the big announcements coming from VMworld 2021 is the announcement of VMware Project Capitola. What is VMware Project Capitola? How will it introduce new features for how memory is managed in future versions of vSphere? Let’s take a…
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VMware Automation
VMware Self Service Provisioning Portal with vRealize Automation
Automation is the name of the game today with organizations needing to streamline operations and ensure the proper governance controls are in place across the board. Using vRealize Automation, VMware Identity Manager, and Active Directory, you can create a VMware…
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vRealize Suite
Upgrade VMware Identity Manager with vRLCM
With the release of the vRealize Cloud Suite 2019 8.6 releases across the board, I have been getting my vRealize environment upgraded in the home lab. One of the key components of the vRealize Cloud Suite is VMware Identity Manager.…
