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By Tom Fenton
Tom and a friend come up with an exciting proposition: Could the Moonstone NUC replace one of the Dell R630 servers in his lab rack?
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By Tom Fenton
Tom didn't think remotely accessing local computing resources would be as easy as advertised, but it was: "It just worked out of the box."
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By Tom Fenton
Tom walks through the installation and use of "a must-have tool" that can save desktop administrators in Dell shops a lot of time and aggravation.
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A new testing tool for AWS Backup allows you to create a restore testing plan that you can use for the purposes of validating your backups.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom seeks a usable low-cost PC that isn't "cheap."
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Brien Posey explains the advantages and potential disadvantages of using DNS over HTTPS.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton puts Selenium through its web site testing paces.
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Because standard scheduling options aren't going to be a good fit for every situation.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom does parallel testing of iSCSI and NFS, along with testing NFS SSD VMs, iSCSI SSD VMs, multimedia performance and more.
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Bug fixes, security updates and feature updates are delivered through Windows Update, but if you are running Windows on an EC2 instance, then drivers need to be updated in a completely different way.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom pushes the personal cloud storage device beyond its intended use case to act as a repository for VMs while seeing if it can be used as shared storage for running VMs.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom looks at how easy it is to set up the private cloud NAS device, how well it acts as a backup device for documents and videos, and how easy it is to access the device and its files remotely.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom checks its suitability for the mass storage and protection of his home and lab files and data.
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By Tom Fenton
After previous benchmarking tests, Tom attempts to install and run a bare-metal hypervisor on the low-priced, small form-factor PC.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom installs Workstation on an ACEMAGIC AD15 Mini PC to benchmark its performance running a small and large Windows 10 VM.
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Brien Posey shows how to resolve some of the more common causes of RDP connection failures.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom puts the small form-factor device through its paces to see what type of workload it is best suited for.
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By Tom Fenton
As Intel quits NUC biz, Tom eyes a replacement, which he hopes to use as a standalone desktop system, type-2 hypervisor running VMware Workstation and more.
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By Tom Fenton
There are various reasons why you may want to reflect the actual hardware the VM is running on rather than as a VM; by adding these three lines to the VMware configuration file, you can easily reflect this.
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While the process of establishing a network path between two networks tends to be somewhat straightforward, DNS name resolution can be an issue.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom explores Autostart on Workstation Pro 17 to avoid multiple manual virtual machine restarts upon an automatic reboot of Windows 11.
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Here's how organizations build scaling groups to create and delete instances in response to a workload's demands.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton pops off the bottom of the device to look at its innards, powers it up and runs some benchmarks.
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By Tom Fenton
With an i7-1360P processor, 16 GB of RAM and a 512 NVMe device for storage, it should handle the most demanding home and office workloads.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton finds that Windows IoT Enterprise works fine as a base OS to run a thin client used to connect to a VDI desktop and a local desktop using RDP.