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Tech Short: Proxmox – Adding node to existing cluster

I’m back and testing proxmox once again.  This time I am adding my 3rd machine to the cluster. Performing this task is very simple to do and takes only a few moments of time to complete. With that said lets get into it. First you will need to access the proxmox console or log via […]

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Remaining Rated Write Endurance 0%

My Dell PowerEdge R630 users have reported slowdowns. Investigating did not show any issues. After a support request with Dell it was mentioned that the SSD drives I’m using are known to exhibit issues of slowdowns due to timing problems. This has been addressed with a firmware upgrade. The drives being used are configured in a RAID10 under the PERC […]

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Tech Short: Enable SNMP on ESXi 6

Now that you are on or you have just started using VMware ESXi 6 and would like to do some monitoring via SNMP here is a way to enable this and set the community string in the process. By default, remote clients are prevented from accessing services on host, unless configured to start automatically. While […]

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Family Time: I Am A Promise

My little guy sings one of his favorite songs and has asked me to put it on YouTube. [youtube id=”Zv4XoTf55ic” width=”600″ height=”350″] Lyrics: I Am A Promise . By William and Gloria Gaither Verse 1 I am a promise, I am a possibility I am a promise with a capital “P,” I am a great […]

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QOTD: “solitude”

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” – Albert Einstein

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Server 2012 R2 Data Deduplication on Windows 8.1

Talking a late walk around features of Windows Server 2012 R2. One of the features that interested me was the deduplicaiton feature. Naturally I want to run this on my Windows desktop. So my journey began. Warning these steps and method are no way supported by Microsoft; use at your own risk. To pull this off […]