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VMware

Intune Lab Setup with AutoPilot in VMware vSphere

February 03, 2022

There is no question that many organizations today are migrating away from the old way of provisioning desktops using image-based deployments to t…

VMware

Nested Proxmox VMware installation in ESXi

February 01, 2022

In working with clients and different environments, you will definitely see many different hypervisors used across the landscape of enterprise orga…

VMware

Proxmox iSCSI target to Synology NAS

February 01, 2022

How to install Proxmox inside a VMware virtual machine. However, to really play around with the hypervisor, it is great to have storage to work wit…

VMware

Virtualization vs Containerization in 2022 home lab

February 01, 2022

I have been revisiting many of the infrastructure components and services running in the home lab environment. You can read my VMware Home Lab and Le…

Directory

Data Fabric

January 21, 2022

Data fabric is a term coined by the research firm Gartner to describe a distributed IT architecture in which data is governed the same way whether it…

VMware

Create Kubernetes Cluster with Rancher and VMware vSphere

January 21, 2022

How is your Kubernetes journey kicking off in 2022? While Kubernetes is already wildly popular it is feeling more like 2022 and beyond is going to be…

VMware

Terraform vSphere Kubernetes automated lab build in 8 minutes

January 16, 2022

While Kubernetes has been wildly popular for quite some time now, I think many are just starting their journey of learning Kubernetes and cloud-nativ…

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Quantum ML

January 16, 2022

Quantum ML (quantum machine learning) is an area of research and development (R&D) that focuses on how to translate classical machine learning al…

VMware

VMware Event Broker Appliance VEBA tutorial: How to create an email notification

January 16, 2022

Among the really cool projects I have stood up in the lab as of recently is the VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA). If you have not heard about VEB…

Directory

IOTA (Distributed Ledger Technology)

January 12, 2022

IOTA is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) that supports feeless transactions and micropayments for the Internet of Things ( IoT ). IOTA, which is…

VMware

Securing Virtual Workspaces with Praim ThinOX

January 12, 2022

No longer are the majority of workers driving into the office. The remote workforce has taken shape and is a trend that will undoubtedly continue. As…

Directory

Decentralized Identity

January 10, 2022

Decentralized identity is an approach to identity and access management ( IAM ) that seeks ways to allow individuals to manage their own personally…

Windows Server

Patch two new Active Directory privilege escalation bugs

January 08, 2022

If Log4j wasn’t enough, Microsoft has upped the alert on two new Active Directory bugs that now have a PoC tool in the wild. What are the new …

Directory

Sovereign Cloud

January 08, 2022

Sovereign cloud refers to a cloud structure that’s designed and built to deliver security and data access, while meeting local laws and regulatio…

VMware

VMSA-2022-0001 CD-ROM vulnerability patch workaround and Locked CD-ROM error

January 08, 2022

Well, closely on the heels of the Log4j vulnerabilit y, we have started 2022 with a new VMSA-2022-0001 released from VMware. The new vulnerability …

Articles

Configure Pi-hole SSL using a self-signed certificate

December 29, 2021

I have been playing around a lot with Pi-hole lately. If you are new to Pi-hole and what it can do, take a look at my blog post here on how to Inst…

Articles

DIY fibre channel SAN with High Availability using StarWind VSAN

December 29, 2021

Many organizations have long used fibre channel as their preferred storage platform of choice. While iSCSI and other protocols have dominated markets…

VMware

VMware vCenter Server Log4j patch script remediation process

December 28, 2021

In case you haven’t heard, Apache Log4j is arguably the biggest vulnerability found across the board since Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities were disc…

Articles

Runecast 6.0 released with new features including Log4j scanning

December 28, 2021

It is always a great feeling when you are able to watch a product or solution that you knew was destined to be great, form, grow, and develop over ti…

VMware

VMware Horizon Log4j patch workaround

December 28, 2021

The fallout from the Log4j vulnerability continues to make ripples across organizations at the time of year when the last thing many want to hear abo…

Articles

Install Pi-hole in Ubuntu 21.04

December 24, 2021

These days there are threats everywhere you turn when using electronic devices. Most of us are targeted for ads everywhere we go and every device we …

Articles

Backup Strategy for Ransomware attacks

December 24, 2021

If there is one worry among organizations today concerning their data, it has to be ransomware. Ransomware is continuing to plague businesses at an a…

VMware

Easy vCenter Server two-factor authentication without ADFS

December 24, 2021

One of the new features added in vSphere 7 is the new identity federation component that allows organizations to point vCenter Server to an exter…

Directory

Java Applet

December 21, 2021

A Java applet is a small dynamic Java program that can be transferred via the Internet and run by a Java-compatible Web browser. The main difference …

VMware

Change ESXi Management IP Address and VLAN on vSphere Distributed Switches VDS

December 15, 2021

As I have posted the last few days, I have been undertaking some home lab network redesign and moving a few things around. This includes carving ou…

VMware

VMware NSX-T 3.2 Released New Features

December 15, 2021

There is arguably not another software-defined networking solution that has had the impact of VMware NSX. It has revolutionized the way organizatio…

VMware

Critical Vulnerability in Apache Log4j CVE-2021-44228 is VMware affected?

December 15, 2021

Well, unfortunately, it seems like we are ending the year on a dangerous critical vulnerability. Just a couple of days ago, a critical vulnerabilit…

Windows Server

Windows Server 2022 Security Hardening best practices

December 12, 2021

Hardening your Windows Servers is a great way, along with other security measures, that you have a strong security posture. What are the best ways to…

VMware

Change IP ESXi for vSAN host with VDS

December 12, 2021

I am doing a bit of network redesign in the home lab (a new post to come on that soon), for better manageability and security practices. With that be…

VMware

VMware Home Lab and Learning Goals 2022

December 11, 2021

As we are beginning to wrap up the 2021 year, like me, you may be starting to think about the year ahead and what technologies and other skills you w…

VMware

Upgrade VMware Horizon 7.x Connection Servers to Horizon 8 2111

December 11, 2021

VMware Horizon 8 2111 is hot off the press from VMware and no doubt organizations are looking at a maintenance window to upgrade their existing Horiz…

VMware

Change your vSphere Management Network now!

December 10, 2021

As part of the goals that I have set for myself, my home lab environment, and the production environments I work with, becoming more security conscio…

Windows Server

What is Windows Server IoT 2022? Can you download it?

December 10, 2021

Microsoft has worked really hard to bolster its offering in the space of IoT with robust Azure-integrated solutions that have come full circle. Recen…

Directory

Communication Protocol

December 06, 2021

Communication protocols are formal descriptions of digital message formats and rules. They are required to exchange messages in or between computing …

Articles

Remote Device Management Client with ThinMan Server

November 30, 2021

Organizations today have had to streamline their IT operations due to the significant shift to a remote workforce. In addition, with the change to a …