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Samsung Updates: Galaxy S7 SM-G930V VZW USA (Verizon) – G930VVRS4BRA1

Thursday, January 25, 2018. Today Samsung Galaxy S7 (SM-G930V) device users on the Verizon Wireless network are receiving the latest Firmware 7.0 Nougat update. This new update for the SM-G930V model is expected to add to the phone speed and conserve battery power or even add some light touches on the system Galaxy S7, update G930VVRS4BRA1.   […]

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ISP Redundancy Link Interface Cannot Be Created

While setting up ISP Redundancy on a Check Point cluster I ran into an issue preventing me from proceeding with my configuration.  I was eventually able to resolve this and felt that I would share with you and my future self the steps taken.   What is ISP Redundancy ISP Redundancy enables reliable Internet connectivity […]

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Check Point: SmartDashboard crashes when editing Management server object

I recently had an annoying issue with my Check Point Smart Dashboard. Each time I connected to the Management with SmartConsole and editing the Security Management server object it causes an application crash. The crash would start with a UAC popup from the Windows registry: Followed by the Check Point SmartSashboard application crash itself with the following […]

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vSphere Customization Specification and Ubuntu 17.10

Has anyone noticed issues with #vSphere Customization Specification and #Ubuntu 17.10 (GNU/Linux 4.13.0-25-generic x86_64) – Now that the network settings are located in: /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml, I’m back to manually updating IP information (Server Naming still works). Although the traditional /etc/network/interfaces reflects the information provided by the customization process, the host still acquires a DHCP issued address. After some digging […]

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Cannot remediate host because it is part of HA Admission Control enabled Cluster

Recently my team and I ran into incident with and error while patching esxi servers using VMware Update Manager(VUM).  When attempting o remediate the following error message was shown: “cannot remediate host because it is part of HA Admission Control enabled Cluster” Cause: vCenter Server uses admission control to ensure that sufficient resources are available in […]

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Hyper-V Virtualization: Turning Hyper-V On and Off

I recently started using Hyper-V on my Windows 10 workstation to task advantage of using technologies such as Docker that leverages Hyper-V to run its container images.  I also run VMware Player for running virtual machines. The following commands make it a simpler task to toggle Hyper-V on and off again. To Turn Hyper-V off, […]