Recently, I took a Raspberry Pi I had lying around (who doesn't?) and decided to install Pi-Hole. Pi-Hole is essentially a DNS server for your home, running on a Raspberry Pi. It's job is to filter DNS requests to the…
Recently, I had a question about using a managed service account for Veeam's Backup for Office 365, so I thought I would write about how to setup a managed service account, and switch services over to that account. If you…
Yesterday, I was working with Veeam Availability Orchestrator .next beta, and ran into a fun issue. During a Recovery plan test, the VMs are brought into vSphere using Veeam's Instant VM Recovery. If you're not familiar with IVR, Veeam is able…
I was fortunate enough to have time with Paul Woodward Jr and Angelo Luciani to talk about the VMware community while hanging out in the aptly named Hang Space at VMworld 2018. Be sure to follow each of them on…
HPE was kind enough to send an ML110 Gen10 my way to review, no strings attached. So, I wanted to get to know this server, and spend some time with it. From the hardware to the management software, and firmware…
I got the opportunity to sit down with Keith Townsend ( The CTO Advisor) to talk about announcements at VMworld 2018. Among those announcements was ESXi on ARM, as well as Amazon RDS (relational database services) on vSphere on-premises. Be sure…
I sat down with Heath Johnson from VMware to find out more about VMware Cloud Foundation at VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas. Cloud Foundation is vSphere with vSAN, NSX, and the vRealize automation, all easily deployed and managed easily, and…
Today was the first day of VMworld 2018, and this will be the first post in a series on the event. Announced was vSphere 6.7 update 1. While an update release typically wouldn't warrant a blog post, this one almost…
Nutanix CE, or Community Edition, is the free community supported hypervisor of Nutanix. Nutanix CE allows you to create a hyper-converged infrastructure on your own hardware, running AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor.) Nutanix in production can use Acropolis, Hyper-V, or VMware as…
In this video, follow along as we install Veeam's Availability Orchestrator and walk through the initial configuration wizard. Stay tuned for more videos on VAO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j0YUaGZBus&list=PLhpeOholBnStZvt1pgXY4LQv9UMDYUIED