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Pai gow poker play combines familiar poker decisions with the slower rhythm of a traditional casino table. The aim is to arrange seven cards into a five-card…

Kubernetes has quietly become the default orchestration layer for containerised workloads, and plenty of Australian IT teams are now running it alongside their…

Anyone who has worn a pager for a Brisbane-based NOC knows the 02:00 alarm. A cluster needs patching, the vCenter is humming in a Sydney colocation, and there…

A central logging solution gives VMware administrators a reliable view of events across vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and supporting…

vSphere Storage DRS (SDRS) helps administrators manage VM placement across a group of datastores. It evaluates capacity, I/O activity and placement rules, then…

PowerCLI is most effective when VMware administration becomes repeatable. A script that creates a cluster, applies a host profile or reports datastore capacity…

VMware environments often begin with a few manually managed virtual machines and grow into a busy mix of clusters, templates, datastores, networks and…

An Intel NUC can provide a remarkably capable VMware home lab without the noise, heat, and electricity demand of a rack server. Its compact form makes it…

VMware vSphere High Availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) are designed to make clusters resilient and efficient. HA restarts workloads…

NFS remains a practical way to provide shared storage to VMware ESXi, particularly in a home lab, development environment, or small business where a dedicated…