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home lab
Optimize SSD and NVMe Storage for Virtualization in Your Home Lab
When building out your home lab, the storage layer is arguably one of the most important. Choosing the right storage solution is key to having a platform that can run virtual machines and containers effectively.…
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Automation
Packer Build Ubuntu 21.04 for VMware vSphere
If you aren’t already using Hashicorp Packer for automating builds of the various operating systems you use in your environment,…
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Software Defined Storage
StarWind HCI Evaluation Kit Released: Config Walkthrough
It is not often that you can fully try out an entire solution from a vendor in your own lab…
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Automation
Terraform vSphere tutorial: Linux Virtual Machine Clone
Terraform is a great infrastructure as code (IaC) platform that allows easily spinning up and customizing infrastructure. The great thing…
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Windows Server 2022
New Windows Server 2022 Container Image Preview Install
Just a few days ago, Microsoft released news of the new Windows Server 2022 base OS container image preview. It…
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vSphere 7
Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) for ESXi 7.0 Update 2a Upgrade
VMware vSphere 7 Update 2 contains many great enhancements that I have written about here. Since Update 2 was pulled…
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vSphere 7
VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 2a Released for Download
Well, we have been waiting for a few weeks now for the updated release of ESXi 7.0 Update 2 to…
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Linux
Ubuntu Server CLI Cheat Sheet
One of the beautiful things about Linux is the power of the Linux CLI. This is what draws many to…
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Software Defined Storage
StarWind SAN & NAS Free for VMware vSphere Released
StarWind has released a new and very exciting new solution that is based on their robust VSAN solution, called StarWind…
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Azure
Join Windows 10 Azure AD step-by-step
Today, organizations have evolved beyond using the simple on-premises infrastructure of traditional days. The traditional Active Directory domain that exists…
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Backup Software
4 Reasons to Back Up Microsoft Exchange Online
Many organizations today are migrating business-critical data to cloud Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environments. Among these, Microsoft Office 365 is one of…