Scrolling through the Citrix forum I stumbled upon the thread Really slow when importing OS Layer or creating app layers which instantly caught my attention. I’ve seen similar discussions on Twitter… Continue Reading
Portable Data Center For Carry On
In this blog post I’m going to show you how to build the perfect Carry On friendly Portable Data Center for only $650 (without Compute). This is the actual setup… Continue Reading
Building an Automated WIM Factory
With Microsoft’s new Windows Update strategy an Automated Build & Capture solution is highly recommended. I did a post many years ago, but thought it would cool to write a… Continue Reading
Windows Patching As We Know It Is Dead
I sincerely hope you didn’t get infected by WannaCry, but I’m pretty sure most of you where working extra hours to make sure to get all your systems up to… Continue Reading
Configure Nano Server for Data Deduplication and Internal WSUS usage
In my last post Setup Nano Server as NAS for Home Lab I showed you how to get started with Nano Server. In that post I used one 150GB disk, but in… Continue Reading
Setup Nano Server as NAS for Home Lab
In the last couple of weeks I’ve been hard at work optimizing my Automation Framework Master Class Hands On Labs. The class is all about Automation, but even automation takes time… Continue Reading
Automate WSUS on Windows 2016 Server Core
Windows 2016 Server Core is a great choice for hosting your Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). In this post I’m going to show you how to install, configure and decline superseded… Continue Reading
VyOS Virtual Router on Nutanix CE
I run many different hypervisors in my lab and I always isolate them on private networks so I don’t screw up the internet connection for my wife and kids. In the… Continue Reading
Login VSI Automation – Completely Hands Off
Finally! I’ve been working on Login VSI Automation for at least 6 months now. This has been running fine in my small lab with tests of VSImax of 25, but… Continue Reading
Getting Started with Atlantis Community Edition
Atlantis Computing has just released a Community Edition of their USX Software Defined Storage (SDS) solution similar to Nutanix. You can grab Atlantis Community Edition here. In this post I’m going… Continue Reading