In-place upgrade 2016 to 2019

How to in-place upgrade Microsoft Windows server 2016 to 2019. An in-place upgrade of Windows means to upgrade to a newer version of Windows keeping your original settings and data. Upgrading from Windows server 2016 to 2019 means your OS will be supported longer, with feature and security updates. Before performing your in-place upgrade, ensure …

Create iSCSI datastore in ESXi

This is how to create an iSCSI datastore in ESXi. In my case, I got a QNAP which allows for iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) connections to the storage. Briefly, iSCSI is a layer on top of TCP/IP that uses an initiator to connect to a target. This protocol can go over normal ethernet. …

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IT Interview Questions

Recently I have been a part of a few interviews and have had to prepare some IT interview questions for candidates. I thought I would post them here for future use and in case anyone wants to use them. I’m not posting answers for the questions. My method is to let the answer for a …

Deploy Ubuntu on VMware Free

How to deploy Ubuntu on VMware for free. In this guide, I’m describing how I deploy an Ubuntu server on VMware ESXi free version. The goal of this project is to have a place to host various application from home for *free*. Of course I already had bought the physical servers I use, pay for …

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Home Lab NTP Server

How to create your own home lab NTP server? While I’m not an expert on NTP (network time protocol), I decided to create my own NTP server for my home network. This was for multiple reasons: To learn about NTP servers and clients.Take the load of NTP off of my pfsense home router.Audit my home …

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