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DevOps
DevOps Best Practices in 2024
Devops is a hug part of modern development processes in production environments. DevOps operations teams are part of the broader interaction between development and operations teams to create modern software apps that follow modern workflows. Let’s take a look at…
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Tools and Utilities
Rufus Alternative for Linux and Windows installing ISOs – Ventoy
Most of you are familiar with the Rufus utility that is a great way to “burn” an ISO to a USB key for installing various OS’es. It works great, and it serves the purpose very well. However, I want to…
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Software
Devolutions Password Hub Review
Today’s business-critical systems sprawl and cover not only on-premises environments but also those in cloud as well as hybrid cloud. Your organization no doubt has countless systems and services located across your technology landscape that require the use of passwords…
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Windows Server 2019
Windows Server Core 2019 Management Fundamentals
Windows Server Core has finally matured and transitioned into the primary operating system that you should deploy when thinking about deploying a Windows Server platform in your environment. The days of GUI are numbered, especially with the recent developments in…
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VMware
Opvizor Performance Analyzer VMware Performance Monitoring
Monitoring your vSphere environment at the cluster, host, or virtual machine level is key in understanding where performance bottlenecks may exist and why production workloads may not be performing adequately. In addition, monitoring certain vSphere metrics can also help to…
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VMware
Tools to Improve Virtual Machine Performance
One of the key areas that a VMware virtualization administrator must key in on with his or her vSphere environment is performance. After all if the production workloads running in the virtualized environment are not running with adequate performance, problems…
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Networking
GNS3 2.0 released new features
For those networking geeks out there like myself, no doubt you have used and continue to utilize GNS3 as a tool for mock ups, learning, and just about anything else you can think of. GNS3 today has some major news…
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Computers
Three lesser known ways to test SQL connectivity
In troubleshooting a SQL connectivity issue recently, I tried multiple tests in connecting to SQL to help troubleshoot the issue. In this post, let’s take a look at three lesser known ways to test SQL connectivity including ODBC, a UDL…
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Backup Software
Install Veeam 9.5 Backup and Replication Remote Console with PowerShell Snapin
Installing Veeam Backup & Replication Console remotely is a great way to have the Veeam Console tools available on an administrative workstation where one does not have to login to the Veeam server in order to check jobs, replication, etc.…
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home lab
Monitoring Home Lab Network like Production
Most of us die hard geeks are running home labs as part of the never ending learning process AND because, well, we LIKE doing it enough, we want to tinker around with technology at home. With that being said, to…
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