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Tanzu Community Edition
Install Kubernetes in Windows using Tanzu Community Edition
One of the announcements that I was personally excited about coming from VMworld 2021 is the release of Tanzu Community Edition (TCE). You can read my blog post covering Tanzu Community Edition here. One of the great things you can…
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Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019 GA Storage Spaces Direct Non-WSSD Certified Registry Key
For those that are labbing with Windows Server 2019 RTM version Storage Spaces Direct, you may quickly find that if you try to provision a lab version of Storage Spaces Direct using the “re-released” GA bits of the OS, you…
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VMware
VMware Hands On Labs Learning Resource
All of us who are virtualization engineers are constantly trying to acquire new skills and polish the skills we already have.ย If you are like me, you are looking for learning resources or trying to find good ways of test…
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Powershell
Automate Veeam Restores Using PowerShell
One of the powerful things that Veeam offers is the ability to use PowerShell to both backup and restore virtual machines. ย This makes for great ways to automate tasks either backups or restores, or even other jobs via the PowerShell…
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Networking
Create Veeam Isolated Sandbox Virtual Lab
I have written several posts on how to created an Isolated lab environment using the same IP addresses or overlapping subnets. This requires some network trickery to pull off to make the routing work correctly. Veeam has functionality in the…
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home lab
How to flash Avago LSI RAID controller firmware with boot disk
In working on provisioning a new Supermicro lab server that is outfitted with an Avago LSI 9380-4i4e SAS RAID controller, one of the first tasks I wanted to complete was flashing the firmware to the latest version. ย There are a…
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Virtualization
Use same domain login for production and lab
Labs are cool right? ย We can use them for many use cases when it comes to testing and proof of concept mock ups. ย If you have been tasked to spin up a copy of your production environment in a lab…
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Networking
Setting up VLANs Cisco SG300-20 Switch
The Cisco SG300-20 Switch is a great home lab switch that features most of the capabilities that ones see and use in the enterprise environment and for a cheap price. ย I wanted to write up a quick blog post on…
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Hyper-V
Setup a Hyper-V Cluster Lab in VMware Workstation
Setting up a Hyper-V cluster lab in VMware Workstation is not too difficult and can easily be accomplished in a couple of hours worth of work to get things configured and ready to go. ย Basically the same requirements hold true…
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