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Amazon provides some tools for automating the patch management process -- here's how to do it.
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By Tom Fenton
Here's how you can expose the CPU features needed to run Hyper-V on Windows 10 instance being virtualized on VMware vSphere 6.5.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton walks you through the process of configuring the Debug level in VMware User Environment Manager.
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The State Manager allows you to specify various actions that should be performed against an Amazon EC2 instance.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton shares some of the Q&As that went on after his VMworld session where he discussed using the vCenter Management Interface and vimtopo to do real-time monitoring of the health of a vCenter Server Appliance.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) helps you automate the snapshot process by allowing you to create snapshot lifecycle policies. Here's a look at how these policies work.
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Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are the mechanism that makes it possible to create Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) virtual machine (VM) instances -- here's how to create a custom Windows AMI.
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By Tom Fenton
See how to access the VAMI and use some of its features to perform basic administrative tasks, including monitoring your VCSA and applying patches and upgrades, among others.
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A look at secure ways of accessing your Windows or Linux VMs, plus Azure Security Center, Azure Backup, optimizing networking for VMs, automating creation of VMs, and tips and tricks for managing VMs running in Azure.
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By Tom Fenton
Vimtop is a valuable tool that can be used to ensure that your VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) remains as performant as possible. When it's coupled with a monitoring tool such as PerfMon, it's easy to spot trends or anomalies that are affecting your VCSA.
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Here's a quick refresher on how JSON files work and how you can use them to configure AWS services.
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By Tom Fenton
Monitor the health of your VMware vCenter Server Appliance by transforming it into a format that can be viewed in an Excel chart.
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By Tom Fenton
The latest update is one of the largest, according to the company, including bug fixes, an improved UI, enhanced cloud management functions, plus many more improvements.
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Organize, manage and monitor your Internet of Things devices with Amazon Web Services.
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Get rid of idle services with the Azure Activity log.
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Everything you need to know about how to select, deploy, optimize and more when it comes to managing your virtual machines in Microsoft Azure.
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In this last article of a three-part series, Posey steps through the actual migration process.
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In this second article of a three-part series, Posey shows how to organize your discovered servers by application.
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By Tom Fenton
If you forget your password while trying to run sudo from your WSL terminal, there's an easy way to reset it.
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In this first article of a three-part series, Posey gives an overview of how to migrate a virtual machine to the Amazon Web Services cloud.
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By Tom Fenton
Due to enhancements to vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) version 6.7, in particular its performance and vSphere Client, you may want to consider upgrading your VCSA sooner rather than later. Here's how.
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If you're ready to welcome Alexa into your office space, here are some helpful hints to ensure easy enrollment for your wireless devices.
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Here's what to do (and what not to do) when you want to move a workload to the cloud using a virtual machine on someone else's metal.
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Many administrators don't know that OneDrive for Business data is removed 30 days after the user account is deleted. There's a way to fix that.
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Although similar to PowerShell, the AWS command structure does have its own nuances.