powershell
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VMware PowerCLI
Install VMware Pester PowerCLI Configuration Management
PowerShell can do so many cool things for us not just from an automation standpoint but also from a configuration management standpoint. ย I wanted to help give some visibility to a great bit of PowerShell PowerCLI code called Vester that…
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Powershell
Veeam Powershell Automatically Add Backup Jobs
One of the great things with Veeam Backup & Replication is the integration with PowerShell and the ability to automate many of the job options using PowerShell. ย This is extremely handy when it comes to mass creating Veeam jobs in…
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Windows Server 2016
Add iSCSI target Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Core
Working with Windows Server 2016 Server Core is a bit more difficult than working with the GUI enabled version of Windows Server. Also, with Windows Server 2016 Microsoft has removed the ability to go back from GUI to Server Core,…
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VMware PowerCLI
VMware PowerCLI Add Harddisk and Attach to Paravirtual Controller
There are certainly performance benefits to using the VMware ParaVirtual controller, especially in extreme load conditions. ย According to VMware’s own documentation, the PVSCSI controller provides 8% better throughput at 10% lower CPU cost. ย There are also performance benefits to use…
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VMware PowerCLI
VMware PowerCLI quickly add multiple VM vmnics
PowerCLI is a powerful tool that can be utilized to quickly perform tasks in a VMware environment. ย One of the overly painful tasks that you encounter when configuring or reconfiguring a VM is adding vmnics. ย Especially is this painful if…
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Powershell
Mirror Hard drives without using RAID
When we think of traditional hard drive mirrors with RAID technology, we are usually talking about a RAID controller either software or hardware based that is performing parity operations on two hard drives and present the two hard drives as…
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Backup Software
Compare Veeam Backup Copy and Replication Jobs Configured
If you use Veeam Backup and Replication to perform backup, copy, as well as replication jobs, how do you see the differences between the jobs setup? ย In other words, do you have copy and replication jobs setup for servers where…
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Windows Server 2016
Install Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Nano Server in VMware ESXi
One of the exciting features of Windows Server 2016 is Nano Server which is basically a headless operating system that really does strip out just about everything but the necessary components to run a server operating system. ย There is of…
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Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016 Server Core the machine is already joined to the domain
In working a lot recently with Windows Server 2016 Core in a lab environment, I ran into an issue after rolling back a snapshot on a Hyper-V Server Core install. ย The snapshot rollback of course broke the computer account/domain relationship…