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Here's how you can manually control the fan speed on your Poweredge R320/420/620 from the ESXI CLI. 1. Download the ipmitools file which is compatible for ESXI up to 6.7 and upload it to your host. (credits to fatty lewis) File: IPMITOOLS https://upw.io/6n7/ipmitool or https://mega.nz/#!U1R2lCpA!eq54PJSw3ErRVTeoPtebLvR6uBJHeZYDuEurPU4tDLI 2. Upload it to your host via WINSCP or SCP …

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This is a quick write up on how to make sure that your iSCSI traffic gets the proper buffering on the switch ports if needed. I assume the majority if not all of the traffic on the port is going to be iSCSI so we aren't going to focus on queuing but instead focus on …

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Here are a few quick tips to gain some serious performance in EVE-NG for your network labs! Please note I am assuming you are running EVE-NG as a VM within ESXI aka nested virtualization. 1 - Build your nodes with VIRTIO Adapters when you can. 2 - Install latest VirtIO drivers and then commit the …

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This is going to be a quick config on how to configure your Cisco, HP, and Dell switches to authentication to AD via a Windows NPS Server. I am providing the config and policies that have worked for me. I even included a policy and config for the Cisco ASA. First of all we need …

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This all started when I wanted to quickly deploy an instance of LibreNMS as I hadn't used it in a long time. I totally forgot that the OVA is virtual box only image. Now I don't have any issues doing the CLI install as it's short, but it irked me that this didn't work. I …

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