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home lab
Best Home Lab Networking Architecture in 2025
One of the core aspects of any IT infrastructure is the network. The network is the center of how everything communicates, works, and it also forms the core of your security posture and how well…
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Networking
Cisco SG300 time configuration
Recently, afterย working with some logging on my Cisco SG300-20 switch, I wanted to write up a quick post on Cisco…
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Networking
Cisco Native VLAN mismatch
After installing a test Meraki MS220-8 switch in my lab environment at home, I noticed when I remoted into my…
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Security
Arpwatch SMTP configuration
One of the more obscure sources of information when configuring arpwatch is arpwatch SMTP configuration. ย There are so many flavors…
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Security
Arpwatch Home Network Monitor
Let’s face it, these days, we all need to pay more attention to what is going on with our home…
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vSphere 6
ESXi 6 Equallogic reclaim free space
If you are thin provisioning VMs in your environment with an Equallogic SAN attached to your cluster, you may find…
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vSphere 6
How to tweak performance ESXi 6.0
We might not think about tweaking of the ESXi hosts themselves for performance. ย While there are other major areas of…
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Powershell
AppAssure powershell commandlets for administrators
If you administer an AppAssure environment, there is great power in using Powershell to do a lot of the heavy…
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vSphere 6
Create Linked Clone using PowerCLI ESXi 6
Guys, just wanted to write up a quick post on how to spin up a linked clone in ESXi 6.0…
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Virtualization
Deploy Dell Virtual Storage Manager 4.5.2 in vCenter
For those of you who don’t know or haven’t seen the Dell Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) appliance, it is a…
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Virtualization
VMware create and restore group snapshots multiple VMs at once
If you have a lab environment or other “application stack” specific multiple VMs, there can arise the need to create…