setup
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Hyper-V
Setup Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V VM Replication
Setting up Hyper-V replication allows you to replicate a virtual machine from one Hyper-V environment over to another. The nice things about replication in the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor world is that there is no appliance to have to setup or…
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Security
Configure Splunk for Meraki MX
In looking at firewall upgrades for home lab and network, I have been taking a look at a variety of firewalls. Recently, I was able to get my hands on a Meraki MX64 to try out. Just a note here, I…
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Networking
Setup GNS3 VM VMware ESXi
GNS3 has definitely matured as a product and offers tremendous functionality especially if you look at the cross vendor platform support that it offers. I definitely prefer the interface of GNS3 over other products such as VIRL. VIRL is maturing…
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vSphere 6.5
VMware vSphere 6.5 Configure Encrypted VMs
One of the new exciting features that was introduced with vSphere 6.5 is the encrypted VMs feature. Security these days is on everyone’s mind and encryption provides a solution to many security concerns. What happens if someone gets a copy…
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Networking
Create LACP LAG between Extreme and Enterasys switches
A late breaking project I was involved with recently with a client was adding 10G port count to an environment that had simply outgrown the number of 10G ports that were being used. Another ESXi host was being added to scale…
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Networking
Stretch layer 2 with OTV
Lately, in looking at different ways to stretch layer 2 with various technologies, I have been proof of concepting various ways to do this in router labs. In a recent post Stretch VLANs across routers L2TPv3, we see how to utilize L2TPv3…
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Networking
Meraki MS220-8P unboxing and initial setup
Recently, I was excited to get my hands on a new Meraki MS220-8P cloud switch. So I wanted to go through some of the unboxing highlights as well as some of the initial setup and configuration steps to get the…
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Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016 Containers Basic Setup
If you would like to lab and play around with containers, there is a really great setup script and a few easy steps you can follow to get a copy of Windows Server 2016 TP 4 setup with containers working.…
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Networking
Mikrotik Setup Multiple Virtual APs and VLANs
Recently, I picked up a Mikrotik RB951G-2hnd for an additional AP to play around with in the lab and to eventually replace an aging Netgear SOHO router/AP that currently only handles wireless access traffic and doesn’t do any routing. I…
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Virtualization
How to enable thinprint VMware Workstation 12
Since VMware Workstation 12 has all but eliminated the problems I was having with the VMware workstation console interfacing with my VMs, I have since moved back to using the console in the dual screen mode which is nice. Before…
