QNAP TM-431K Review – Part 2
I decided to go with the QNAP TM-431K for my home lab NAS. Here is my writeup of installing and configurint it. Read the full article at Virtualization & Cloud Review . Related Links: Home Lab NAS (QNAP TS-431) Part 1: Intro and Specs Home Lab NAS (QNAP TS-431)...QNAP TM-431K Review – Part 1
After loosing a few VM’s due to lack of backups I decided to invest in a NAS. I this article I go through my thought process on why I decided to buy one rather than build one. Read the full article at Virtualization & Cloud Review . Related Links: Home Lab...Using Slmgr to Change, Remove, or Extend Windows Licenses
If you use temporary licenses from MS technet you can examine, modify and extend (rearm) them using the slmgr command. Below are some of the commands that you can use. You will need to execute these commands from an Admin command prompt. slmgr.vbs /rearm ## renew your...Using a M.2 SSD Drive with ESXi on Arm with an Argon ONE case.
The Argon ONE M.2 case for a Raspberry Pi has a place to put a M.2 SATA SSD drive. I installed ESXi on it and used a Ubuntu VM to use it. This article details that experience and my thoughts on it. Read the full article at Virtualization & Cloud Review . Related...Clear Video Capture HDMI Video Output
In a previous article, I discussed how I used an inexpensive ($25) video capture card to capture HDMI output from a physical system. Unfortunatly the screen captures from that system were fuzzy. In this article I used a different device and was able to capture far...How to Capture HDMI Video Output
If you ever have tried to capture screen caps during installs when you don’t have the ability to do screen caps you might want to try using an inexpensive HDMI to USB Capture Card. Mine was ~$20 and did a OK job. In another review I found one that did a better...Use wget to download a GitHub file on a ESXi host
The other day I needed to download my script to automount a USB drive on a ESXi server from my GitHub repository. To do this I opened the Http Client port for the ESXi server and then executed wget...Hands-on With Dell EMC PowerStore – Day 0
In this article I look at Dell new line of midrange storage devices PowerStore. This line should help them consolidate their existing storage lines (Unity XT, Compellent , XtremIO, and EqualLogic ) under a single platform. Read the full article...Hands-on with HPE Nimble Storage dHCI
In this article I look at HPE’s implementation of disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure (dHCI). dHCI is like to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) as it allows the management of compute and storage from a single management plane: vCenter Server, but dHCI...About Tom Fenton
Virtualization and storage professional with 30 years experience in a wide range of technologies including VMware Horizon, vSphere, VTSP, Linux and much more. Follow me on Twitter @vDoppler
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- VCP5
- VCI (lapsed)
- VTSP SV (Server Virtualization 2018)
- VTSP-DAV
- VMware Technical Sales Professional (VTSP)
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