Back on March 10th, 2019 I posted a blog post ripping Synology for the long delay in updating Active Backup for Business for VMWare ESXi 6.7 Update 1. Well my original criticism still stands about having to wait almost year for 6.7 stands, but I’m happy to announce that version Synology Active Backup for Business…
Update Synology Fixed the Synology Active Backup ESXi 6.7 issue Finally! Introduction Just as an FYI. The other night I was messing around with side Linux VM and I was shotgun blasting 2+ years of updates to it. During the process I reached the point where I decided “Screw it, restore from backups and start…
Introduction About a year and half ago, I needed a distraction from some of chaos in my personal life and decided to build a FreeNAS NAS storage server to act as an iSCSI target. I started detailing out the build in a couple of posts but then life got in the way and I never…
Introduction Exciting news in the world of network-attached storage (NAS) solutions has emerged with the release of FreeNAS 10, dubbed “Corral.” This latest iteration of the popular open-source storage platform promises to revolutionize how individuals and businesses manage and store their data. In this blog post, we’ll dive into the new features, improvements, and what…
Introduction Every year multiple bloggers and tech journalists put out a FreeNAS Storage Server build log of building a home/small NAS. Most of the time the goal of these builds is to be as low power and cheap has possible. To be fair for an average consumer that needs a place to store family photos…
Deploying Virtual Machine Template with a Customization Specification. In earlier posts, I’ve gone through how to create a template and how to create a customization specification. If you missed them they are located below. Creating Templates Creating Customization Specifications Let’s put the 2 together
Well we just went over how to create a template lets create a Customization Specification to Speed up some of the based install tasks Creating a Customization Specification can be done as a one off thing when deploying a Template or you can create a Specification so your company standard is set from the beginning….
This morning I decided to create a new template for Server 2012 R2 since I’ve been restricting a lot of the components of the TDSheridan Home Lab. I created a new virtual machine and installed Server 2012 R2 Datacenter then ran all windows updates on it.
Introduction If you use VMware VDP 5.1 or newer for your backup solution. Then you may have seen that you can’t access the /vdp-configure or /FLR recovery pages. That is because most current browsers have been updated to no longer accept old certificates that VDP uses. you need to apply the VMWare VDP SSL Fix….
Introduction Working with vCenter Server is a very nice feature, and depending upon which version of VMware licensing you have it can make your sysadmin life much easier. Have you ever thought about upgrading Virtual Hardware over SSH? if you are only using the free version of ESXi, In the old days (ESXi 5.1 and…