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How to enable multiple RDP sessions on Windows

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Multiple RDP sessions are disabled on Windows servers. It means that if you are working on the server and at the same time another administrator connects, you get disconnected because the other admin takes over. How to enable multiple RDP sessions on Windows? There is a simple way to do it and I’ll show you […]

Homelab Storage Network Speedup with …. Infiniband

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When I first built my homelab few years ago I never thought that one day I’ll be using anything else than 1Gig NICs for storage network. I always thought that the  FC or 10 gigs ethernet technology is out of range most of the individuals and a lot of the SMBs for years to come. […]

Installation VMware Mirage DB on Separate SQL Server

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VMware Mirage uses SQL database which can either be installed on the same server as the Mirage server, or the DB can be deployed on external SQL server. This post will discuss the Installation VMware Mirage DB on Separate SQL Server. Depending of the scale of the deployment taking in account the limitations of the MSDE […]

How to Install Zentyal in Ubuntu Server

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Zentyal is a lightweight Remote web based GUI for Ubuntu servers. The company in addition to a paid version with 3 years of suppor, also has a free community version, with limited support only (forums). The release 3.2 is in preparation, will be out in september and focuses on Samba 4.0 integration. The main features […]

How-to turn your ESXi host into NTP server

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This article will show you in few steps how-to turn your ESXi host into NTP server. It’s not the best VMware practice for production environments, but excellent for home labbing and maybe for clients with single ESXi host, where there isn’t any other physical server left which could assure an NTP service. The ESXi host […]

How to install VIB on VMware ESXi

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Often I get asked what’s VIB and How to install VIB in VMware ESXi. VIB packages are update packages, drivers or other third party updates to ESXi which installs by using VMware Update Manager (VUM) or directly through the local CLI. The easiest way to patch ESXi free (without update manager) is through the local CLI. […]

VMware Horizon View 5.2 – Installation of Horizon View Connection Server

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This is hands on lab video about how to install VMware Horizon View 5.2 Connection server. It’s a step-by-step video, which is another video that comes from a Free video serie produced by VMware.  You’ll learn also how-to: Setup an Event Database (New) Enter a Syslog destination (New) from within the View Administrator console Horizon View 5.2 […]

Install vCenter on Windows Server 2012 – ODBC and vCenter components install (Part 2)

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In the first part we successfully installed SQL Server, and created vCenter, VMware update manager and SSO databases. In this part we will create the DSNs and Install vCenter on Windows Server 2012, together with all the different components. This post is a part of multipost, where we do an Install vCenter Server on Windows Server 2012, with […]