Virtualization Howto

[...] was a question in the comments on a recent blog post on how to configure port forwarding in Sophos UTM.  While a little less intuitive than other UTM firewalls such as Untangle, it is still very [...]

[...] on a hunt and compare between Untangle and others out there.  Recently I was turned onto the Sophos UTM appliance that is a free download from Sophos for home use.  The home use license includes [...]

[...] So far I have really been impressed with the features and power of the Sophos UTM appliance.  I have ran it both in a software based applianced running on a whitebox atom [...]

[...] the vCenter Server appliance is a great and easy way to get up and running with vCenter.  The update process to keep the appliance up to date is rather painless as well.  With the recent release of [...]

[...] of both OM VMs before starting this process to have a rollback point. The first part of the update process is to get the file uploaded. Accept the EULA to proceed after the file uploads successfully. [...]

[...] .  Verify the version number is 2068190 which is update 2 level. Final Thoughts: The update process really isn’t that tricky once you have the ISO and just set aside the time to perform [...]

[...] of your accounts to 2 Factor Authentication if you haven’t done so already.  How often do we see in the news where passwords were [...]

[...] ’t connected to Google Voice.  I tested many different options with passwords, 2 Factor authentication and other issues. The error message: “Backing off authentication error” The [...]

[...] a hunt and compare between Untangle and others out there.  Recently I was turned onto the Sophos UTM appliance that is a free download from Sophos for home use.  The home use license includes almost [...]

[...] So far I have really been impressed with the features and power of the Sophos UTM appliance.  I have ran it both in a software based applianced running on a whitebox atom powered [...]

[...] For those of you running the Sophos UTM appliance and who are interested in running an Obi device behind your Sophos UTM appliance, we have [...]

[...] For smaller environments the vCenter Server appliance is a great and easy way to get up and running with vCenter.  The update process to keep [...]

[...] For smaller environments the vCenter Server appliance is a great and easy way to get up and running with vCenter.  The update process to keep [...]

[...] In playing around recently in my home VMware lab, I set about created a Windows Server 2012 R2 cluster with iSCSI storage.  I have used many products over the years as opensource [...]

[...] enhanced EAF Supported OS’s: Windows Vista SP2 Windows 7 SP1 Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Windows Server 2003 SP2 Windows Server 2008 SP2 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Windows Server 2012 Windows [...]

[...] command-line utility to close any TCP connection under Windows XP/Vista/Seven as well as Windows Server 2003/2008.  This is a great little commandline program that allows you to kill the remote IP: [...]

[...] For those of you who use VMware workstation 10 in running VMs on your desktop or laptop computer, you may have noticed that in certain [...]

[...] the topic of setting up an IPsec VPN on the Sophos side as well as connecting to your Sophos IPsec VPN using the free Shrew Soft VPN client.  Sophos offers a VPN client that can easily [...]

[...] component is basically a server component that is deployed on either the same server as vCenter Server or a separate server which will host the Update Manager component. Installation of vSphere [...]

[...] we will show via screenshots the update procedure for upgrading your Windows installation of vCenter Server 5.5 to the Update 2 level. You will want to login to VMware and grab a copy of the Update 2 [...]

[...] you get Remote Access – SSL, PPTP, L2TP over IPsec, IPSec, HTML5 VPN Portal, and Cisco VPN client.  Also, you can download a full featured VPN client from Sophos to load on your [...]

[...] .  The options that exist are SSL, PPTP, L2TP over IPsec, IPsec, HTML5 VPN Portal, and Cisco VPN Client. I want to cover the topic of setting up an IPsec VPN on the Sophos side as well as [...]

[...] export. The Restore Method The other method that can be used to restore a VM to your VMware environment is to create a blank VM and then booting off the Universal Recovery Console which is [...]

[...] to this release level to have all the latest and greatest functionality in their VMware environment.  Below we will show via screenshots the update procedure for upgrading your Windows [...]

[...] .  The extracted folder contains the .vmdk and .vmx files that you need to import into your VMware environment. After doing the initial setup on Napp-it, setting passwords, ip address, etc, I added a [...]

[...] that can connect up with the Sophos UTM without having to spend the money on the Sophos VPN client.  The genuine Sophos client is a great client and works rock solid as it is basically [...]

[...] things. Installing Nginx in Ubuntu: apt-get update && apt-get install nginx Hiding Nginx Server Version: Add the following to nginx.conf under a server configuration block: server_tokens off; [...]