Category Archives: Lab Infrastructure

ESXi Datastore Performance Battle: iSCSI vs. NFS on Synology NAS with VAAI

I recently got my hands on a new Synology DS723+ and a couple of 4TB HDD disks for my home lab. My plan is to use this device as a backup target, either as a storage destination for my existing … Continue reading

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Content Library item validation with Power CLI

Have you ever had a new site come online and want to validate that the items in a subscriber content library are in sync? Or experience some storage issues/corruption and want to make sure your sync’d library is still intact? … Continue reading

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Aria Automation Internal IPAM reserve / release API

In the May 2023/8.12.1 release notes for Aria Automation, one of the what’s new items was the ability to reserve/unreserve an IP address to make it unavailable/available for deployment. In this release the functionality is supported via API only. This … Continue reading

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Emulating a Wide Area Network with Latency and Packet Loss

Have you ever found yourself needing to simulate network latency or packet loss? I recently wanted to test a replication scenario but needed to have at least 15ms or so of latency between the source and destination. Years ago I … Continue reading

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Horizon Linux Virtual Desktop – Non Persistent Ubuntu 22.04

I recently wanted to apply some updates (OS updates and Horizon Agent) to my Ubuntu 20.04 desktop. It had been several months since I had last updated the desktop and realized the Ubuntu 22.04 had since been released. This is … Continue reading

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