IT Architect dragon from the shadowrun universe, that does think about SAN, NAS and other server and storage related topics

IT architects Abbreviations used with storage

IT Architects often use abbreviations in the Architectural Elevator and this often doesn’t help our conversation partners with architectural topics. Today I will explain some abbreviations on the subject of … Read more

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WinMTR – Visualization of ping and traceroute

WinMTR is a port of the Linux tool “mtr” and the addition of a graphical user interface (GUI). This means that network problems can also be quickly investigated by colleagues … Read more

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Get started with the new Azure Arc Site Manager

Microsoft announced another Azure Arc preview tool. Azure Arc site manager will allow you to get a quick overview over all your Azure Arc resources. What is Azure Arc site … Read more

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Windows Server 2025 – Part 3 (Azure Arc)

To connect Windows Server 2025 with Azure Arc is the next step for my HomeLab includes configuring the existing Windows Server 2025, the 3 Windows Server 2025, my Linux VM … Read more

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UniGetUI formerly WingetUI for Server 2019 / 2022

Winget is a powerful tool to automate installation and keep applications update. In my Windows Server 2022 and Windows Server 2025 test environment I use WingetUI as a graphical user … Read more

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Windows OS – 3 easy ways to see the Uptime

3 ways in which you can quickly and easily find out how long your PC has been running since the last restart or when the computer was last booted. cmd … Read more

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Windows Server 2025 – Part 2 (Hyper-V)

Last time I started here with Part 1 and the IT Architect view on Windows Server 2025 and prepared a hardware and Operating system. This time we look into Hyper-V … Read more

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IT Architect dragon from the shadowrun universe, that does think about high availability and cluster server and database related topics

IT architects Abbreviations used with clusters

IT Architects often use abbreviations in the Architectural Elevator and this often doesn’t help our conversation partners with architectural topics. Today I will explain some abbreviations on the subject of … Read more

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Tail for Logfiles with Windows – various options

I views a lot of log files and I always look for the functionality to use Tail for Logfiles with Windows “live” in a GUI. Under Linux, this is very … Read more

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Azure Landing Zone – Reference architecture

The Landing Zone for the Microsoft Cloud environment is a reference architecture that supports companies in the secure and scalable provisioning of Azure resources. What are the 5 focus topics … Read more

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