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Benefits of Using Virtualization for Disaster Recovery

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Planning for disaster recovery is essential in today’s digital landscape, where unexpected events—ranging from cyberattacks to natural disasters—can disrupt business operations in an instant. While traditional disaster recovery strategies like data backups and off-site replication remain valuable, they often fall short when it comes to agility, scalability, and minimizing downtime. This is where virtualization emerges […]

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Portability of Software: A Modern Perspective

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Software portability is the cornerstone of modern application delivery, allowing organizations to run applications seamlessly across diverse systems and environments. Developers aim to write applications once and deploy them on any platform without modification, while system administrators strive to minimize conflicts and ensure smooth execution regardless of the underlying infrastructure. In today’s technology landscape, software

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What is the difference between Enterprise and Consumer grade Storage Systems?

Storage

When considering your storage systems you will be faced with many choices covering a whole range of price ranges. In this chapter I will cover some of the differences and similarities between consumer grade and enterprise grade equipment. **Note this content was migrated from our old site. Some information may be a bit dated In my

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How to install Open Filer 2.3

Storage

Today’s video shows how to install Open Filer in a Virtual Machine. Open Filer is a very easy to use storage system which integrates with Active Directory and LDAP. It supports NFS, iSCSI, SMB, etc… It has many features including Snapshots, Replication, and High Availability. There is a both a Community Version (Free) and a

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Why using DHCP is better than static IP addresses… Even for servers

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Any IT professional with even a little experience is familiar with DHCP. Dynamic host configuration protocol is responsible for handing out IP addresses on your network.  there is generally one device or server responsible for handing out IP addresses on a given Network. Using DHCP, you can specify the IP address,  subnet mask, DNS server,

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How to troubleshoot Virtual machine(s) invalid in vCenter

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Introduction If you’ve ever encountered a virtual machine (VM) in vCenter that appears as “Invalid”, you know how frustrating it can be. An invalid VM is essentially unmanageable through the vSphere Client—it won’t power on, migrate, or function normally. This can be alarming, especially if the VM hosts critical workloads. Why Does This Happen? A

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What is the Difference between a SAN and a NAS?

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In today’s digital landscape, businesses generate and store more data than ever before. From high-speed databases and virtualized workloads to massive file archives and collaborative workspaces, the right storage infrastructure can significantly impact performance, reliability, and scalability. Choosing between Storage Area Networks (SANs) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) is a critical decision for IT teams,

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