configuration
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Computers
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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Computers
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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Windows Server 2016
Add iSCSI Shared Storage in Windows Server 2016
If you are configuring a Windows Server 2016 Failover cluster or you are building a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V cluster, you will need shared storage so that either the file or virtual machine resources don’t live on local storage which…
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VMware
Update Avago LSI SMIS Provider VMware ESXi
If you are running an Avago/LSI RAID controller card in a VMware host, Avago has an SMIS provider that can be installed on the host that allows you to connect a remote Storage Manager utility to the server and interact…
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Software Defined Storage
Install ScaleIO 2.0 in VMware vSphere 6
In talking about software defined storage, most are familiar with VMware vSAN. However, there is another extremely powerful SDS solution available for free from EMC called StorageIO. StorageIO is free in the context of a lab or development environment. Otherwise…
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VMware PowerCLI
Automate vSwitch and VMkernel configuration VMware PowerCLI
As we have already detailed in this post about how we can configure VMware clusters with PowerCLI and the benefits of doing so, the sky is the limit in what we can do with VMware PowerCLI and automating configuration processes…
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VMware PowerCLI
Configure VMware vSphere Cluster with Web Client or PowerCLI
As powerful as VMware ESXi is out of the box in a standalone single server format, we really don’t get all the benefits of running a hypervisor in a single server standalone configuration. The real power with VMware vSphere comes…
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Automation
Best Rest API Client Download
These days APIs are all the rage when it comes to interacting with devices, infrastructure, software, etc. Most vendors and software are providing APIs that allow you to interact, configure, and query software and hardware. This is powerful when it…
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VMware
Configure FreeNAS 9.10 NFS VMware ESXi 6 datastore
Many choose to use NFS as opposed to iSCSI in their VMware vSphere environments. NFS has a lot of benefits and use cases particularly when we look at the efficiency of NFS. With NFS there is no encapsulation that needs…
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Horizon View
Create Dedicated Linked Clones with VMware Horizon View 7.1
If we do not want to use or do not have the licenses for using Instant Clones in our VMware Horizon View 7.1 environment, we can opt to use Linked Clones. Or, we may choose Linked Clones instead of instant…
