Increasing storage capacity in a production or even a lab environment can be tricky. You need to make sure that all the stakeholders are aware of this effort, but more importantly, you need to make sure that you increase capacity in a non-disruptive manner. Over the past couple of weeks, I had to add extra disk … Continue reading Hot Adding Disk Shelves to your NetApp controllers
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Configuring DNS services in AWS
In the last blog post, I wrote about how we can configure Active Directory Domain Service in the Azure Cloud. So this time I decided to focus on AWS and walk through the steps that are needed when you are facing the following two scenarios: Configuring a custom Active Directory(AD) domain and DNS servers for … Continue reading Configuring DNS services in AWS
Configuring Active Directory Domain Services in Azure Cloud
The first question that people might have after looking at the title of this blog post is: "Why would I need to configure AD Services in Azure if it already offers a managed service?" I was thinking the same thing when I ended up configuring AD services on my VMs in Azure. The reason I … Continue reading Configuring Active Directory Domain Services in Azure Cloud
Cisco FlexVPN Configuration
I have been familiar with the concept of an IPSEC Tunnel for quite some time but I never had a chance to play with it. That changed when I got the opportunity to configure a FlexVPN Tunnel in my lab. What is FlexVPN, you ask? It is Cisco's latest implementation of the IPSEC Tunnel that uses … Continue reading Cisco FlexVPN Configuration