Computers
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Boot ESXi Virtual Machine From Passthrough USB
Recently, in playing around with the home lab environment, I had the need to boot a virtual machine from a USB thumbdrive that was attached to one of my ESXi hosts in the lab. Using a devie that is attached…
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Create a VMware vSAN 6.7 U1 Nested ESXi Lab
For those who may not be running VMware vSAN in a home lab using physical hosts, or who are running VMware vSAN on physical hosts for “production” but who want a separate “learning” or “play around” environment for VMware vSAN,…
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Radmin Windows 10 Remote Viewing Support and Console Control Utility
There are certainly cases when you need to connect to the console session of a Windows 10 remote workstation. One of which I documented here concerning testing 802.1x authentication. However there are many other scenarios that might require you to…
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Windows 10 Security Sandbox Announced for Upcoming Windows Release
Security is a top priority among businesses and in the enterprise today. Additionally, it is a growing concern for home users. Windows environments have long been a target for malicious software and the like with malware and specifically ransomware topping…
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Vembu BDR Suite v3.9.1 released with Standard Edition
Organizations looking for a great, versatile, flexible, and powerful data protection solution that can protect workloads across virtual, physical, and even cloud offerings at a very reasonable price will want to take a look at Vembu BDR Suite. Recently, Vembu…
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Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Versions
Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor has definitely seen an uptick in adoption with more enterprise ready features with each version. Windows Server 2016 is the most capable and fully featured release to date and it certainly has matured from the early days…
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Upgrading VMware NSX to 6.3.2 NSX Manager
VMware NSX is an exciting network virtualization platform that is being developed at a fairly aggressive pace. Each upgrade provides additional features and or bug fixes to an existing NSX installation. VMware has a fairly ironed out process to upgrade…
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StarWind Two Node VMware Hyperconverged VSAN
If you have not heard about StartWind Virtual SAN, it is a highly scalable and powerful virtual SAN solution that allows for a two node hyperconverged configuration for multiple Hypervisor configurations. StarWind VSAN allows you to take internal storage whether…
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Deploy Netwrix Auditor Virtual Appliance
Netwrix Auditor is a great tool for automating the auditing of your Infrastructure. It is highly capable and audits just about any type of environment that you can think of including Windows Servers, VMware environments, SQL server, etc. Recently, they…
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Optimize Windows 10 for VMware Horizon View 7.1
In thinking about our client OS desktops that we will be using for our VMware Horizon View 7.1 lab, there are a number of things we need to do to optimize the operating system for using with VDI. Thankfully, there…
