“vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) is a new feature in vSphere 7.0 Update 1. This feature ensures cluster services such as vSphere DRS and vSphere HA are all available to maintain the resources and health of the workloads running in the clusters independent of the vCenter Server instance availability. In vSphere 7.0 Update 1, VMware has […]
Note: Article written based on SonicWALL Gen 6 running firmware 6.5.4.7 This post comes directly from the field, hopefully it will save someone some time. I manage about 30 SonicWALL devices and have spent the last year or so converting from traditional site to site VPNs to tunnel interfaces with OSPF. This gives us the […]
It’s really an unfortunate experience when you find a product that you love, standardize on it, and then witness the company drive it into the ground. This appears to be exactly the case with Ubiquiti and their Unifi Wireless Access Points over the past year or so. Spend just a few minutes on their forums […]
I’m going through the process of configuring Azure site recovery from an on-premise VMware environment and thought I would share a short video demo showing it off. See Youtube linke here… This video only shows one way failover, I’d like to post another showing failover and failback at a later date, but it requires a […]
Hi everyone, I’ve just been through some lab scenarios involving the pfSense firewall with OSPF and thought I would share. I am really starting to like pfSense, the ability to install this firewall/router solution on 3rd party hardware or into a virtual machine has really helped in the lab. I’ve even purchased a physical appliance […]
So this project started out as many projects at work do. The boss comes to you and says, “hey I have this new email use policy written up, now we need to implement the technology to meet it”. I’ll leave out many of the company specific details, but let’s say that new policy has the […]
Here is a script written in PowerShell for VMware’s PowerCLI module. Basically I needed a quick and dirty backup solution to get some important VMs stored on a different datastore regularly. It also goes back and cleans up old clones. It isn’t perfect, but this version 2 of the script added some fixes for the […]
Hello, I haven’t posted for quite some time with work and life getting a little nuts, but I just finished a fun project that I thought I should share while still fresh. I manage about 30 branch office sites with SonicWall firewalls and we do not run GMS for a variety of reasons. As a […]
I am finally getting around to digging into our datacenter environment and looking at capacity planning.. I wanted to know how many “logical” processors were in the environment compared to how many virtual CPUs I have allocated. I found the base of this script just searching around the internet and modified the math to multiply […]
Hello, I thought I would share this experience as it took me a bit by surprise and I ended up having to call Microsoft support. I am not stranger to P2V migrations or restoring servers from backup, but this one had me just stumped. Basically I was in the position of having to restore a […]