Virtualization

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 SMB Direct — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 SMB Direct

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 SMB Direct SMB Direct is an enhancement to the SMB 3 protocol that enables direct memory access transfers between servers using RDMA-capable network adapters. When available, SMB Direct allows data to be transferred between server memory over the network without involving the CPU for data movement, dramatically reducing CPU […]

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How to Configure Windows Server 2019 Data Deduplication — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 Data Deduplication

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 Data Deduplication Data Deduplication (dedup) on Windows Server 2019 reduces storage consumption by identifying and removing duplicate data blocks within a volume, replacing duplicate copies with references to a single shared copy. Deduplication is particularly effective for file shares, virtualization storage (VDI, Hyper-V), and backup repositories, where data duplication […]

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How to Configure Windows Server 2019 ReFS File System — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 ReFS File System

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 ReFS File System Resilient File System (ReFS) is Microsoft’s modern file system designed for maximum reliability, scalability, and data integrity. ReFS uses checksumming for all data and metadata, enabling automatic corruption detection and, when paired with Storage Spaces Mirror resiliency, automatic corruption repair. Windows Server 2019 includes ReFS version […]

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How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Volume Management — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Volume Management

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Volume Management Volume management on Windows Server 2019 extends beyond basic disk partitioning to include dynamic disks, spanned volumes, striped volumes, mirrored volumes, and RAID-5 volumes, as well as Storage Spaces for software-defined storage. Volume management allows administrators to optimize performance, provide redundancy, and efficiently utilize available disk […]

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How to Set Up an SLES 15 Template in VMware — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up an SLES 15 Template in VMware

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Set Up an SLES 15 Template in VMware on SLES 15. SLES 15 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management. Prerequisites Ensure your SLES 15 system is up to date: […]

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How to Set Up SLES 15 with KVM Virtualization — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up SLES 15 with KVM Virtualization

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Set Up SLES 15 with KVM Virtualization on SLES 15. SLES 15 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management. Prerequisites Ensure your SLES 15 system is up to date: zypper […]

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How to Configure Windows Server 2019 for Azure Hybrid Benefit — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 for Azure Hybrid Benefit

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 for Azure Hybrid Benefit Azure Hybrid Benefit is a licensing benefit that allows organizations to use their existing on-premises Windows Server licenses with active Software Assurance (SA) to run Windows Server virtual machines on Azure at a reduced cost. For Windows Server 2019 environments, this benefit can dramatically reduce […]

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How to Configure Windows Server 2019 Server Core — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 Server Core

How to Configure Windows Server 2019 Server Core Windows Server 2019 Server Core is a minimal installation option that omits the Windows graphical user interface (GUI), Internet Explorer, and many optional Windows components. The result is a smaller attack surface, lower memory and disk footprint, fewer required patches, and improved performance compared to the full […]

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How to Set Up Remote Desktop Services Collections on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Remote Desktop Services Collections on Windows Server 2019

How to Set Up Remote Desktop Services Collections on Windows Server 2019 Remote Desktop Services Collections are logical groupings of RD Session Host servers in Windows Server 2019 that publish a common set of resources — either full session desktops or RemoteApp programs — to a defined group of users. Collections are managed centrally through […]

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How to Set Up Hyper-V Discrete Device Assignment on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Hyper-V Discrete Device Assignment on Windows Server 2019

How to Set Up Hyper-V Discrete Device Assignment on Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V Discrete Device Assignment (DDA) allows a physical PCIe device — typically a GPU, NVMe SSD, or specialised accelerator card — to be directly assigned to a virtual machine, bypassing the Hyper-V virtualisation layer entirely. The VM gains native, low-latency access to the […]

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